Henry Baltazar

IT managers shopping for storage in todays market will find more options and vendors than ever before, but are there too many choices?In the enterprise-class storage networking world, a battle is already raging between NAS (network-attached storage) and SAN (storage area network) vendors. Things will get even more confused in the near future when companies […]

Infiniband vendors were out in full force at the Intel Developer Forum Conference earlier this month, looking to attract the attention of software developers. InfiniBand, the next-generation I/O architecture whose initial 1.0 release was made available last October, probably wont hit the market until the fourth quarter of this year, but protocol analyzers from Agilent […]

Disaster recovery services are more than just insurance policies companies begrudgingly buy for their own peace of mind; eWeek Labs believes these services should be seen as the cornerstone of business preservation. With the evolution of the Internet and online businesses, downtime has become a potentially costly hazard that can quickly drive customers to competitors […]

The technology used for disaster recovery and business continuity service plans differs dramatically depending on the percentage of uptime that must be guaranteed. A two-9s guarantee (99 percent uptime), for example, would allow for a couple of days of downtime per year. Although this would be acceptable for low-priority corporate applications, few transaction-heavy applications can […]

After suffering through more than six months of erratic and unfulfilling DSL service courtesy of EarthLink, I have severed my ties with the company and taken to the air in search of that elusive broadband utopia. (For my original tale of digital subscriber line woes, “DSL utopia? It seems more like DSL hell,” which appeared […]

Spacemaxx storage resource Management software extends the reach of W. Quinn Associates Inc.s storage management products beyond servers to desktops, NAS devices and storage area networks. Considering the staggering growth of storage usage over the past few years, there are surprisingly few companies creating tools that can be used to monitor storage. eWeek Labs believes […]

Lotus hopes that companies turned off by the proposition of overhauling their messaging infrastructure to run its products will turn to Lotus Collaboration Services, a new ASP it is forming, to use its collaboration software. The application service provider, to be available later this quarter, will blend the companys Sametime instant messaging and e-meeting product […]

Lineo, with its uClinux 2.4 operating system, will be the first vendor to go to market with the recently released 2.4 Linux kernel. uClinux 2.4 is a highly specialized kernel tuned specifically for embedded systems, and it has an amazingly small 512KB footprint. The 2.4 Linux kernel allows Lineo to add USB support and infrared […]

Lotus Development Corp.s K-station, which is the first component of the companys knowledge management project (code-named Raven) to take flight, gives IT managers an easy way to create intranet portals so employees can organize company information. The biggest strength of K-station by far is its tight integration with other Lotus products, including the Notes messaging […]

The new Linux 2.4 kernel delivers much-needed improvements in core operating system functions such as memory management and performance scalability. And, as is the norm for Linux, front-line application developers, power coders and hackers will see these benefits first. Linux 2.4, which became available Jan. 4, can be downloaded at www.kernel.org. However, as with past […]

EMC and CNT recently created the first storage-over-IP system that mirrors data across the Atlantic Ocean. The implementation allowed P&O Nedlloyd Container Line to mirror data between sites in Rutherford, N.J., and London on EMC Symmetrix storage systems over the companys private IP network. EMCs SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility) and new encapsulation/decapsulation technology from […]

Over the past four weeks, my EarthLink DSL connection has driven me to believe we are still a few years away from the DSL utopia that vendors are trying to pawn off on us now. Several months ago, I became part of the new broadband revolution when the power of DSL networking was piped into […]