Henry Baltazar

ATA-class products, traditionally confined to workstations and desktops, will likely break out of these realms next year, when Serial ATA products with simplified cabling and expanded capabilities hit the market. However, although most IT managers are looking forward to the release of Serial ATA products, the upcoming Serial SCSI protocol will bring similar benefits and […]

Although Microsoft Corp. doesnt anoint Windows .Net Server 2003 Release Candidate 2 as “feature-complete,” this edition shows that Microsofts next operating system revision will be a significant, incremental upgrade compared with the massive overhaul that took place going from Windows NT to Windows 2000. Some of the most important benefits of Windows .Net Server 2003 […]

The most pressing challenge for IBMs Lotus Software division isnt what product it should build next but how to make the products it has work together in the future. Domino has long been the core of Lotus product offerings, and, based on eWeek Labs tests of a number of new Lotus offerings, Domino will continue […]

Last week, two technology demonstrations provided a glimpse of the incredible storage networking power that will soon be available in the future. IT managers who made the trip to Baltimore for Supercomputing 2002 instead of journeying to the bright lights of Comdex Las Vegas were rewarded with demos by SGI and StorageTek that pushed the […]

One of the hottest topics in the storage market today is the rapidly expanding role of ATA hard drive products in the enterprise. Significant improvements in ATA, coupled with the disk drive implementations ability to provide impressive storage densities at bargain prices, has made ATA-based products a potential contender to tape-based backup devices. ATA-based backup […]

Storage consolidation has been an important goal for IT managers during the last few years. Although enormous strides have been made on the hardware side of the house in terms of interoperability, the software components of storage management (virtualization/provisioning, SRM and so on) have been distinct entities until now. eWeek Labs recently spent some time […]

Considering all the hype given to disaster recovery and business continuity since 9/11, it would be logical to assume that all companies either have a business continuity strategy in place or are at least planning for future implementations. Unfortunately, that assumption is far from the truth, according to a recent report from Gartner. Less than […]

Web site testing, even for companies with abundant resources, has been something of a dark art because it is far easier and less expensive to test the components of networks and infrastructures than it is to test entire sites. However, as cracks and crashes get more complex and online customers demand better service, Web site […]

With the release of several iSCSI-based products and the backing of several standards groups, iSCSI in the last few weeks has attained “viable technology” status. Now is the time for early implementers to take a close look at the innards of this powerful protocol. Last month, eWeek Labs audited a class on iSCSI architecture and […]

For the most part, todays SANs have been limited to campus-size environments—a direct result of Fibre Channel technologys 10-km limitations. That may soon change. Fibre Channel over WAN, the process of extending storage area networks over WAN links via Fibre Channel, promises to enable organizations to mirror data or run backups from a distant location. […]

Last month, Sun and IBM each opened a showcase customer center in the San Francisco Bay area. Although the centers were built by different companies, they share the same goal: attracting and servicing clients. Suns iForce Solution Center, at its Menlo Park campus, has a series of interesting displays showing Suns software and hardware being […]

Now more than ever, thanks to the pallid economy, vendors need to make the purchasing process as easy and cost-efficient as possible to win new accounts and keep established ones. Several of the heavy hitters have figured out that large customer centers need to be more than just flashy showrooms where they can brag about […]