Henry Baltazar

Knowledge management systems have the potential to become the most important means of information dissemination to hit the enterprise since e-mail, but product weaknesses and thorny political issues remain major barriers to successful deployments. In this installment of IT Agenda, eWeek Labs describes the current state of KM and discusses how IT managers can overcome […]

NEC Minimizes Downtime With the release of the NEC Express5800/ft 320La, the first offering in NEC Corp.s Express5800 server line, the company is giving its customers the power of high availability for Windows 2000 Advanced Servers in a single server chassis. In eWeek Labs tests, the NEC Express5800/ft 320La server—which is really two servers in […]

Stratus Technologies is taking an extremely bold step by offering an impressive 100 percent uptime guarantee on its new ftServer line of Windows 2000 servers. This marks the first time IT managers will be able to purchase entry- to midlevel Windows 2000 servers with an uptime guarantee. Current guarantee packages (such as the ones offered […]

NetIqs Directory Security Administrator 1.0 simplifies management tasks associated with Microsofts Active Directory. In tests, I was impressed with the seamless manner in which Directory Security Administrator snapped into the Active Directory management tool. The Directory Security Administrator Search utility is a handy tool that allowed me to search a domain for rogue accounts with […]

Beta 2 of Sun Microsystems Inc.s Solaris 9 operating system adds significant security and management capabilities and is shaping up to be a solid improvement over Solaris 8. Solaris 9, due for release in the second half, boosts security with the addition of Solaris Secure Shell, which supports the SSH1 and SSH2 protocols. This will […]

With the alarming number of attacks on windows-based software in the last few years and the general disdain for cumbersome Windows features such as Windows Product Activation, the need for an alternative to Windows is at an all-time high. However, although the quality of alternatives to Windows-based desktops has improved astronomically in the last few […]

In the end, the fate of businesses rests on data. More important than the processing of new data or its movement through the network is the task of keeping data available and uncorrupted. There are vast differences in cost and technology among data protection solutions, but each of them makes some trade-off between resource costs—the […]

The capability gap between SAN and NAS gets smaller as each technology continues to evolve. At first glance, this convergence might look as if it will leave IT managers with difficult long-term decisions about where they should store their data. eWeek Labs continuing analysis of storage area network and network-attached storage products and standards leads […]

In 2002, 10 Gigabit Ethernet will be an important networking protocol for IT managers to follow, but on the enterprise front, there are only a few business cases ready for early adoption of this upcoming networking standard. The key markets that are targeted by 10 Gigabit Ethernet vendors range from SANs (storage area networks) to […]

Netware 6 builds on Novell Inc.s file and print services strength and enhances it with innovative Web tools. The bigger story, however, will be whether NetWare 6, which began shipping last month, is the technology that marks the turning point in Novells transition from a market-share-losing network operating system vendor to a formidable customized solutions […]

Based on what we have seen in Windows .Net Beta 3, Microsoft is trying to make its flagship operating system more secure, but it needs to make more changes. Fundamentally, Microsoft may need to sacrifice some usability to get Windows security where it should be. In talks with Microsofts IIS team, we learned that they […]

For the most part, the deployment of ATA RAID units has been limited to the realm of overclockers and small businesses with extremely low budgets, but times are changing. With shrinking IT budgets and with advances in inexpensive Advanced Technology Attachment drive technology, ATA RAID devices enterprise time may be coming. (ATA is the connector […]