eWEEK EDITORS

Its not public knowledge yet, but Microsoft is about to tweak its enterprise & partner group. According to an internal memo viewed by Microsoft Watch, the company is replacing Charles Stevens, the executive who has headed that group for the past two years, with an as-yet-undetermined successor. As of July, Stevens will move to head […]

Executives heading up Hewlett-Packard Co.s vastly expanded PC division, which more than doubled in size with the acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp., on Friday touted the importance of PCs in driving sales of other products, and vowed to defend its market share against Dell Computer Corp. In a conference call with reporters today, Duane Zitzner, […]

BOSTON–Storage officials at Hewlett-Packard Co. outlined their product road map on Wednesday, and as users had hoped and expected, Compaq Computer Corp.s legacy will dominate. But in the most significant category, high-end online storage, both HPs XP series– monolith designs made by Hitachi Ltd.–and Compaqs Enterprise Virtual Array–a modular approach–will continue. HP officials said that […]

The editors of eWeek and PC Magazine present the winners of the first annual i3 awards. Enterprise hardwareNeoteris Inc.s Instant Virtual ExtranetAvocent Corp.s DSR2161Nokia Corp.s IP740 firewall Enterprise softwareSamba 2.2.2BEA Systems Inc.s WebLogic Server 7.0 Sun Microsystems Inc. Java 2 Platform Standard Edition Version 1.4 Internet hardwareIBMs eServer zSeries for LinuxAlcatel SAs 7340 FTTU F5 […]

LAS VEGAS–Wireless LAN chip-set provider Intersil Inc. and Bluetooth radio maker Silicon Wave Inc. this week announced the availability of a reference design that allows for simultaneous operation of the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless protocols. But it will be a while before the technology will appear in end-user products. At the NetWorld+Interop trade show here, […]

Tape industry player Advanced Digital Information Corp. this week acquired the intellectual property and staff of virtual tape start-up V-Stor LLC for an undisclosed price. The technology being developed by stealth-mode V-Stor, of Santa Clara, Calif., lets disks appear as tapes to an application, operating system or intelligent storage device. That already exists for mainframe […]

What does Microsoft consider open, when it comes to software licenses? The Redmond, Wash., software maker must make it possible for third parties to interoperate with its software by making necessary specifications available to software vendors. Thats one of the provisions of the proposed consent decree in the U.S. Department of Justice vs. Microsoft antitrust […]

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass.–EMC Corp. will soon have a more independent board of directors and will launch a new low-end product with partner Dell Computer Corp., officials said during the companys annual shareholder meeting here on Wednesday. At the Hopkinton, Mass., companys annual shareholder meeting, with about 800 investors in attendance, a 56 percent majority voted yes […]

CUPERTINO, Calif.—Its a new high-tech powerhouse in an admittedly slower industry. Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina and new HP President Michael Capellas on Tuesday introduced a new company—complete with the acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp.—that they said was now No. 1 globally in combined Unix and Intel-based servers, PCs, and external storage, and […]

For many years, networking looked like a sure thing. Whatever the state of hardware and software, those assets had to be connected—the faster, the better. So how to explain the ongoing, near-death experience of nearly all sectors of networking, from services to equipment? This weeks NetWorld+Interop show in Las Vegas is as good a time […]

IBM has joined the growing ranks of computer makers who have announced high-density “blade” servers in the last year, but the company hopes to gain an edge on rivals by offering a beefier blade. Blade servers, first introduced last year, are far smaller than the previous generation of thin rack-mounted servers, enabling customers to dramatically […]

The Innovation In Infrastructure Awards are a benchmark for networking infrastructure products. Labs analysts and editors from eWeek and sister publication PC Magazine collaborated to select the most innovative and advanced networking infrastructure products released in the last year. The i3 finalists are listed below, and the winners will be announced at a special ceremony […]