Year: 2006

  • Technical Hiccup Delays Microsoft Patches

    Technical Hiccup Delays Microsoft Patches

    Matt Hines

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    Microsoft was unable to offer immediate access to its monthly collection of security patches as a result of a procedural issue in distributing the content to users Oct. 10. While the company appears to have remedied the situation, at the time that the security fixes were first released the software giant was forced to inform… Read more

  • Gartner: Tough Customers Will Win Storage Battle

    Gartner: Tough Customers Will Win Storage Battle

    Stan Gibson

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    Orlando Fla.—Customers need to pit one vendor against another to get the best deals on servers and storage, Gartner analysts told an audience at the annual Gartner Inc. Symposium and IT Expo here on Oct. 11. “Empower yourself to negotiate. Obtain line-item pricing. Because that’s how you’ll do upgrades,” Gartner analyst Paul McGuckin said. He… Read more

  • Salesforce.com’s Apex Platform Offers On-Demand Development

    Salesforce.com’s Apex Platform Offers On-Demand Development

    Channel Insider Staff

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    SAN FRANCISCO—At its annual Dreamforce conference here, Salesforce.com unveiled a new on-demand programming language and platform called Apex. While eWEEK had previously pieced together information about Apex from conversations with customers and analysts, at the time of story’s publication at midnight on Oct. 8 there were still some holes to fill regarding the specifics of… Read more

  • Boeing Makes Item-Level RFID Fly

    Boeing Makes Item-Level RFID Fly

    Evan Schuman

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    As retailers and consumer goods manufacturers struggle with achieving the supply-chain nirvana of complete item-level tagging, $60 billion aerospace giant Boeing has gotten item-level RFID to soar, with 2,000 high-memory passive tags in every plane of an upcoming line. Boeing’s item-level RFID efforts are intriguing because of their scope, but also because of the extreme… Read more

  • McAfee CEO, President Leave After Options Probe

    Channel Insider Staff

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    NEW YORK— McAfee Inc. on Wednesday said Chairman and CEO George Samenuk and President Kevin Weiss are leaving after the security software supplier found accounting discrepancies in its stock options grants. McAfee said it believes it needs to restate past financial statements by around $100 million to $150 million after an internal review found it… Read more

  • Virtual Iron Unveils Xen-Based Virtualization Platform

    Virtual Iron Unveils Xen-Based Virtualization Platform

    Jeffrey Burt

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    It’s time for VMware to have real competition in the x86 virtualization space, claim Virtual Iron officials—and they believe they can fill that role. The Lowell, Mass., company on Oct. 11 is releasing Version 3.0 of its namesake virtualization platform, an offering that is based on the Xen open-source hypervisor, supports Intel’s on-chip virtualization technology… Read more