Component Load Balancing, a feature of Application Center 2000 that works in the middle tier, can help your Web and other applications scale out in a new way.
What can you do to help your people roll with the inevitable?
- By Greg Neilson
- 07/01/2002
Can academia provide the same quality of MCSE instruction as a CTEC? James attends a local community college and reports his findings.
- By James Carrion
- 07/01/2002
Microsoft is carrying out a security investigation into problems with its Microsoft Office Web Components, a client-side technology for making Web pages more dynamic that has come to be used in many companies' server-side applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/01/2002
Active Directory’s trust model makes administration easier than NT, but also introduces the potential to do more damage. Make sure your administrators are trustworthy.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 07/01/2002
Itanium servers, which utilize 64-bit architecture, are ready for the datacenter. This guide can help you decide whether your company should consider adding these high-muscle machines.
- By Bill Boswell
- 07/01/2002
It’s not a matter of “if,” but “when,” your system turns that particular shade of blue that makes administrators see red. That’s when you’ll need to know what your options are to bring the dead box back to life.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 07/01/2002
Our experts troubleshoot your technical problems.
- By Gary Olsen et al.
- 07/01/2002
Notable holdout Sun Microsystems Inc. is now on the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification bandwagon.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/01/2002
Oracle reached a key milestone this week with its Oracle9i database by producing an audited benchmark of its Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on Windows servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/27/2002
Microsoft is urging customers using Commerce Server to immediately install a patch for four newly discovered vulnerabilities -- two of them involving critical code execution problems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/27/2002
IBM is taking steps to stop spam at the server, preventing users from needing to manage it manually or with spam management tools. The server-side enhancements will come in the next version of IBM's Lotus Domino messaging and collaboration server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/26/2002
Beta testing for new MCSA/MCSE elective expected in November.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/26/2002
One of the first essential tools to emerge for Windows 2000 and Active Directory environments got a refresh this week. FullArmor Corp. is shipping version 3.0 of its FAZAM 2000 solution for the tricky task of managing Group Policy objects.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/26/2002
MCAD.NET/MCSD.NET tracks pick up speed as Web versions of the VB .NET, Visual C# .NET exams get scrutinized by testers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/26/2002
Hewlett-Packard this week introduced new products based on its HP OpenView IT management framework that included solutions and plug-ins for managing service level agreements, Web services and storage.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/26/2002
Microsoft is working with hardware companies to get security hardware into new systems to be used by a future version of Windows, possibly the Longhorn release, according to published reports.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/25/2002
For once, there was a firestorm in security and Microsoft wasn't at the center of it. The problem involved the Apache Web server. A vulnerability disclosed last week allowed a denial-of-service attack and even made remote code execution possible on some operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/25/2002
Adding another company to its integration portfolio, IBM Corp. bought directory integration software vendor Metamerge. IBM did not disclose how much it paid for the private company based in Oslo, Norway.
Rumors of DISCO's death have been greatly exaggerated -- it's simply hibernating. Roger Jennings shows you how to wake the DISCO service and prepare for eventual migration to its replacement: WS-Inspection.
- By Roger Jennings
- 06/24/2002