Seagate Technology is taking the wraps off two new hard disk drives designed for data-intensive and OLTP applications. The new drives, both of which are additions to Seagate’s Cheetah line of high-performance SCSI disks, are based on the company’s 10,000 RPM (10K) and 15,000 RPM (15K) technologies.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 05/07/2002
Gartner released research this week showing that the strongest growth in new database software license revenues in 2001 came on Windows server platforms.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/07/2002
One of the biggest security-related trade shows got rolling Monday as Networld + Interop opened in Las Vegas. Amid the reams of networking-related product and partnership announcements, security vendors brought out numerous offerings. Much of the focus of new security products this year centers on locking down wireless LANs and protecting the network from the weak link of remote or roaming users’ systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/06/2002
Altiris Inc. unveiled a new product this week at the Microsoft Management Summit for managing and maintaining applications by extending the functionality of Microsoft Windows Installer.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/02/2002
IBM DB2 OLAP Server 8.1 combines data mining with what IBM calls a new kind of OLAP, which it calls Hybrid Analysis.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/02/2002
Quest Software issued new versions of its Active Directory tools this week, further driving the sophistication and granularity of the control that packaged tools give administrators over Microsoft's youthful directory services offering.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/02/2002
Microsoft prepares to ship new version midsummer. Plus, news from Compuware, UltraBac, CBTVision, CommVault, Sybari Software and Security Bastion
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 05/02/2002
Blocking e-mail attachments, boot camp training, and MCSA early achievers.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- 05/01/2002
The Get Secure, Stay Secure initiative at Microsoft spawned two new methods for keeping enterprises up to date on Microsoft hotfixes and service packs.
This week at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, Microsoft officials detailed the “Systems Management Server 2.0 Value Pack” and a separate “Software Update Services” for customers not using SMS or Active Directory.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/01/2002
Microsoft plans incremental enhancements to much of its line of management software this summer, not just Systems Management Server.
Microsoft disclosed this week that beta availability of Systems Management Server 2003, formerly known by the codename Topaz, will come this summer. But Microsoft also has plans to improve upon Microsoft Operations Manager and Application Center in coming months.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/01/2002
Just what does the ol' crystal ball say about the next decade?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/01/2002
Microsoft released a free JDBC driver for its SQL Server 2000 database, and Redmond is submitting the driver for certification from Java/J2EE heavyweights like Sun, IBM and BEA.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/01/2002
Microsoft plans to release the beta for its next version of Systems Management Server this summer. The feature set for what was formerly known as the Topaz release remains similar to what Microsoft discussed a year ago, although there is a greater emphasis on supporting Pocket PC and Windows CE devices.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/30/2002
Organizations running Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client face a new security vulnerability if some users choose Word as their default e-mail editor.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/29/2002
Microsoft posted a Security Rollup Package for users of Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition. Called TSE SRP1, the rollup package covers many patches not included in TSE Service Pack 6 from last summer.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/29/2002
In the two-and-a-half months since a significant vulnerability was discovered in the industry-standard SNMP protocol, Microsoft has been steadily releasing patches for affected versions of Windows. With the release of patches for Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE, only Windows 95 still requires a patch.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/29/2002
Just because a market niche is mature doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. NetManage improved features in its Rumba product line to give end-users a better legacy system experience.
New version adds wireless support.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 04/25/2002
Intel on Thursday formally named its second-generation 64-bit processor the Itanium 2. The processor had formerly gone by the codename "McKinley."
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/25/2002
NUMA has appeared on Microsoft roadmaps for technologies it would include in high-end versions of its Whistler server release for several years. The topic picked up steam a few weeks ago at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) when Microsoft specified that it would support NUMA technologies in Windows .NET Server, the official name for the Whistler server family.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/25/2002