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Corporate data access speeds may soon get a boost from a standards body working on teaming SCSI devices with serial connections. The Serial Attached SCSI Working Group late last month ceased being a proprietary vendors group and last week completed the mandated seven-day waiting period for objections to becoming part of T10, said John Lohmeyer, […]

Even after 30 years of using tiny computers, I can still be impressed by the work that they make possible for tiny teams with tiny budgets. When university students enter domains that used to be owned by superpowers, we should take a moment to marvel at the tools that enable such things. I have the […]

After reading the information technology association of Americas recently released third annual report on the state of the IT work force last week, I couldnt escape the nagging feeling that something wasnt quite right. On one hand, the ITAA said 2001 was an unnatural disaster in the IT labor market. Recession-spooked employers cut 528,496 U.S. […]

Good Week for Cisco, Industry Cisco announced last week that net sales for its third fiscal quarter were $4.8 billion, up from $4.7 billion in the same quarter a year earlier and the same as the second quarter of fiscal 2002. Net income followed a similar trend: The networking company earned $729 million in the […]

Computer Associates has made many shifts in its marketing strategy and management organization in the past, to the point where jaded observers would yawn with each new one. The latest shift is an emphasis on security that includes the appointment of CA co-founder Russell Artzt as head of the companys security division. For the good […]

Touting some of the fruits of its Project eLiza efforts, IBM this month unveiled several technology solutions it will release this year to boost system uptime and ease the strain on corporate system managers who oversee thousands of servers. Project eLiza, announced last year, is a $1 billion internal IBM initiative aimed at developing self-managing, […]

Although its difficult to measure the true market share of a freely downloadable, open-source product such as JBoss, anecdotal evidence would suggest that the 3-year-old application server originally written by Sun Microsystems Inc. Java developer Marc Fleury is on something of a roll: Monthly downloads of the server have grown from 72,000 to about 200,000 […]

Hewlett-Packard Co.s unveiling of its plan to integrate the companys vast product line with that of newly acquired Compaq Computer Corp. served to underscore one of the huge challenges facing HP. At the core, many say, is a balancing act of consolidating competing product lines while at the same time upholding commitments to customers who […]

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High-end IP storage networking hasnt succeeded yet, so Cisco Systems Inc. is trying for success in the midrange and workgroup niches. Cisco on Tuesday will announce the new SN 5428 router, officials said. Adoption in the high-end market, where Ciscos earlier 5420 plays, “has been minimal if at all,” and “theres still quite a bit […]

Dell Computer Corp. on Monday announced the first rack-mounted server from a major manufacturer to feature dual Intel Xeon processors with hyperthreading technology, underscoring an ongoing push by major computer makers to pack more chips into more compact designs. Hyperthreading technology featured in the new Xeon, code-named Prestonia, enables operating systems to view one processor […]