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When Windows XP was released in October, USB 2.0 support was lacking but promised as soon as possible. Today Microsoft made good on that promise—record time for the Redmond giant. Users with USB 2.0 host controllers can download the driver by going to the Windows Update website, www.windowsupdate.com. (Note: PCs without USB 2.0 card or […]

Storage Networks Inc., known as an early leader in the storage service provider niche thats now widely considered to be in jeopardy, gave details Thursday of how it plans to transform into a software company. Coinciding with fourth-quarter and year-end earnings announcements, of $123.6 million for 2001 compared with $48.2 million for 2000, CEO and […]

Lou Gerstner righted once floundering IBM and steered it back to profitability, but despite those accomplishments his successor, Samuel Palmisano, faces some daunting challenges of his own. Among them, customers and industry analysts say, IBMs newly appointed CEO will need to further rein in expenses at the corporate giant, strengthen its sagging hardware business and […]

NEW YORK—Was it IBMs much-ballyhooed recent announcement of a mainframe that runs only Linux that swayed E*Trade Group Inc. to dump its Sun Microsystems Solaris servers in favor of the open-source operating system? E*Trade Chief Technology Officer Josh Levine says no. Instead, it was Linuxs vendor-independence that led the online brokerage firm to announce Wednesday […]

Veritas Software Corp., like many of its enterprise IT software rivals, is increasing its product catalog for Linux users. The Mountain View, Calif., company on Wednesday announced Foundation Suite 1.1 for Linux. Available now, Foundation Suite is Veritas primary storage virtualization software, previously available for Microsoft Corp.s Windows, Sun Microsystems Inc.s Solaris and various other […]

For handhelds to develop into a key enterprise asset, wireless access must be both speedy and well-implemented. Palm Inc.s new i705 wireless handheld provides one of the two, but that may not be enough to crack corporate billfolds. The i705, released this week, is a dramatically overhauled descendant of Palms nearly 3-year-old Palm VII wireless […]

IBMs board of directors today elected Samuel Palmisano to succeed Louis Gerstner as chief executive of the giant computer maker on March 1. Gerstner, who has led the company since 1993, will remain as chairman through 2002 before retiring. Palmisano, 50, has been viewed as Gerstners heir apparent since his appointment as president and chief […]

WAN performance management provider Visual Networks Inc. this month released versions of its Visual UpTime and Visual IP InSight Dedicated Suite that give greater visibility and control over public and private virtual private networks. Visual UpTime 7.0 adds the ability to monitor and validate class of service as traffic enters and leaves an IP network. […]

You sign up for voice mail from a telephone company, and a week later, a truck pulls up and out pops a technician to install an answering machine. That makes about as much sense as buying a new house when your closet space gets tight. Ridiculous? Of course, yet data center operators—both service providers and […]

When a large company such as Kmart fails, the causes can often be traced to IT. Our sister publication, Baseline, studied Kmarts supply chain woes in its November/December issue. I can relate to Kmarts problems on a more basic level. A Kmart superstore near my home has a knack for being out of the most […]