Recent Articles
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Fujitsu Goes All-Out for U.S. SAN Market
Fujitsu Computer Systems, trying hard to establish a foothold in the U.S. enterprise-class SAN market, will introduce a series of new storage systems Sept. 26 that the company claims feature the world’s largest-capacity drives. Fujitsu’s new Eternus 8000 and Eternus 4000 systems, which compete directly with offerings from IBM, Hewlett Packard and EMC, come equipped…
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Federal Institute Recommends Changing How Doctors Are Paid
When it comes to providing health care to seniors, the federal government is not a smart shopper. That’s according to a report by the Institute of Medicine, which recommends dramatic changes in how doctors are paid for their care, a recommendation which could be a boon to the health IT industry. “The current payment system…
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Is Debian Dying?
For a while, Debian was the community Linux darling. In its heyday, Debian was known for its strong moral point of view and its outstanding code. Numerous important distributions, such as Linspire, Knoppix, and today’s most popular distribution, Ubuntu, have sprung from it. Things have changed. Today, Debian is a troubled distribution. In order to…
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Novell, Intel Deliver Xen-Enabled Linux for Dual-Core Xeons
Like most Linux programs, Xen, the virtualization software, can run on almost any hardware. But, just like any program, it performs better when it’s been optimized for a specific platform. That’s exactly what Novell and Intel are doing with SUSE enterprise Linux, Xen, and dual-core Xeon chip sets. The two companies are hoping that their…
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Itanium Consortium Looks to Ease SPARC/Solaris Migration
The consortium of vendors working to increase the reach of Intel’s Itanium architecture is kicking off a program aimed at enticing software vendors to migrate their SPARC/Solaris applications over to Itanium. The ISV Platform Expansion Program, introduced Sept. 25 by the year-old Itanium Solutions Alliance, will take advantage of Transitive’s QuickTransit technology, which enables applications…
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Security: The Final ISP Frontier
The role of ISPs in security is one of the great neglected topics in our industry, and one of my favorite subjects back to the time before I started focusing on security. Back, I believe, in 1999, I wrote an article predicting (because it made perfect sense) that the future of security for consumers was…
