Henry Baltazar

In a disaster, is your data as well as your hardware insured? The cost of replacing the hardware could just be a drop in the bucket compared with what the data itself is worth. Security managers and representatives from top network security vendors discussed this and other legal, political and management issues at the NetSec […]

For most business users the demand for storage is being stimulated by companies and users coming to the realization that the one thing on their computers they keep, upgrade after upgrade, generation after generation, are the stored data files. The rapidly growing demand for storage can affect any enterprise, be it a large company or […]

Eweek Labs web server benchmark, like most benchmark efforts, was an arduous series of trial-and-error events in which we used all our resources to squeeze as much performance as possible out of our Tux, Apache and IIS-based Web servers. eWeek Labs analysts, like most technophiles, were intrigued and amazed by the extraordinary numbers that Tux […]

SERVERS Dell is preparing to push rack density and server modularity to the extreme with its new blade and brick server architecture models, according to executives I spoke with at Dells Enterprise Day, in Austin, Texas, last month. Blade servers, often referred to as ultradense servers, put the power of a server onto compact blade […]

At long last, Intel has released its long-awaited itanium 64-bit processor to the masses. The major questions that remain are where—and even whether—the Itanium fits into todays corporate networks. Based on briefings I have had with Intel and its OEMs, the positioning of the Itanium is an extremely sensitive issue for them. Over the next […]

Nishan Systems Inc.s IPS 3000 Switch bridges the gap between Fibre Channel SANs and Gigabit Ethernet networks, helping to pave the way for the long-awaited convergence of storage and IP networking. The state of standards for storage over IP is in flux (see related Tech Analysis at www.eweek.com/links), so, for now, it will be difficult […]

EarthLink has added wireless networking to its extensive line of broadband services. Starting in April, it began offering subscribers the necessary hardware from 2Wire Inc. Using 2Wires HomePortal 100 and 1000 residential gateways, EarthLink subscribers can have 802.11b wireless capabilities integrated into their broadband gateways, which will make it much easier to implement wireless access […]

The jury is still out on whether knowledge management is ready for prime time, but many forget that the success of these systems depends more on human management than on any technological aspect. Over the last few months, the need for effective knowledge management has been greatly magnified in the face of massive layoffs. From […]

Part portal, part document manager and yet another part search engine, Microsoft Corp.s SharePoint Portal Server (released to manufacturers late last month), the companys first venture into the knowledge management space, has no shortage of features. Considering that SharePoint is still in its infancy and given the current amorphous state of knowledge management, we can […]

Over the past few years, there has been an explosion of innovation in data storage. Although this new world of choices will eventually pay off in much higher capacity and better performance, the long learning curves of these new technologies, coupled with the scary consequences of betting on the wrong technology, are keeping many IT […]

Not content to sit on its laurels, Emulex Corp., which already owns a substantial portion of the Fibre Channel host bus adapter market, is ready to dive into IP storage networking waters. Its first iSCSI adapter, which was announced last month, will be available by the end of the year. Emulexs recent acquisition of Giganet […]

iSCSI, the IP networking community?s answer to Fibre Channel for storage networking, will be an important protocol for IT managers to learn and implement when it is ratified next month. However, at least in the short term, eWeek Labs believes it won?t be a Fibre Channel killer. In fact, IP over SCSI, which can link […]