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Whatever the outcome of this weeks shareholder votes on Hewlett-Packard Co.s proposed buyout of Compaq Computer Corp., both companies will have to heal strained relationships with their enterprise customers while navigating what promises to be massive internal upheaval. Should HP and Compaq shareholders approve the acquisition in separate votes Tuesday and Wednesday, both computer makers […]

Enterprises considering installing NAS platforms as an inexpensive alternative to direct-attached storage or the storage area network concept will have quite a few vendors vying for their attention this summer. In a battle for a piece of the network-attached storage market that analysts say could reach $5.78 billion by 2005, companies ranging from EMC Corp. […]

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With most new storage software emphasizes agnostic management and virtual hardware pools, W. Quinn Inc.s new product emphasizes performance management and helps administrators deduce what storage to buy when expansion beckons. SiteStor, available later this month for any Microsoft Corp. Windows and Sun Microsystems Inc. Solaris-based storage, and for Network Appliance Inc.s network-attached storage hardware, […]

In a bid to more accurately assess the practical skills of candidates for its IT certifications, Cisco Systems Inc. said it will augment the tests required for its popular CCNA certification to include questions based on simulations of real-world networking scenarios. The new test questions were integrated into the Cisco Certified Network Associate exams on […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. gained additional backing for its buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. as Putnam Investors, a large shareholder in both computer makers, announced it will support the merger. Merger proponents today also touted the release of a new survey of IT professionals, commissioned by HP and conducted by Deloitte Consulting, that found a majority of […]

Walter Hewlett, touting growing opposition to Hewlett-Packard Co.s proposed $22 billion buyout of Compaq Computer Corp., this week predicted that HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina will be ousted if the deal is rejected by shareholders next week. “This will be her second aborted merger in less than two years, and she wont have the […]

IBM unveiled Wednesday its most powerful Intel-based server yet, the 16-way X440, underscoring the computer makers intensifying campaign to boost its position in that market segment. The “building-block style” server, which can scale from two to 16 CPUs, features the new Xeon MP processors running at speeds up to 1.6GHz that were released this week. […]

KM is not software you install (though vendors think it is); its a process that doesnt begin with IT and doesnt end with it. Remember that IT is merely plumbing. Get users involved from Day One. A KM system is useless if employees dont contribute. Isolate who knows what in an organization by systematically interviewing […]

AllNetDevices: good site for news on mobile and wireless devices (www.allnetdevices.com) Handhelds.org: resource for Linux and open-source handheld development efforts (www.handhelds.org) Microsoft Pocket PC developer resources (www.microsoft.com/mobile/developer) Palm OS developer resources (www.palmos.com/dev/programs) Wireless LAN Association site (www.wlana.org) eWEEK Labs Bluetooth In Practice eValuation (www.eweek.com/links) SANS Institute Handheld Security paper (rr.sans.org/PDAs/hand_sec.php)

Palm showcased a beta version of Palm OS 5 at the PalmSource conference this year. Sometime next year, expect to begin seeing a new generation of ARM-powered Palm OS devices competing with Pocket PC devices in terms of features. With the Bluetooth specification finally stabilizing, watch for a group of products built around the short-distance […]

Even if a wide-scale handheld rollout is not in your organizations plans, look into on-device encryption software for those workers who do use and synchronize corporate data on handhelds. Secure mobile users links to company networks with VPN software. When evaluating data synchronization software–be it desktop- or server-based–keep your organizations options open to various platforms, […]