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IBM Debuts Low-End Storage Controllers
IBM has launched a pair of low-end storage controllers and is pulling its disk-based storage products underneath its TotalStorage umbrella to offer customers a more scalable and cost-friendly disk-based storage product line. The TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 controllers, released late this week, kick-start IBM’s new Disk System product line. The DS300, an entry-level disk server…
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Intel to Redefine Performance at IDF
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s famous law will be re-examined again next week, as Intel shifts away from pure speed to the more efficient utilization of silicon. Moore’s Law, which generally states that the number of transistors will double every twelve to eighteen months, has been used as a rationale to explain the perpetual increases in…
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More Longhorn Fallout; More Technologies Delayed
By cutting the Windows File System (WinFS) feature out of both Longhorn client and server, Microsoft Corp. didn’t affect only its next-generation Windows release. It also has set back technologies designed to be dependent on WinFS. One of the most prominent of these technologies is the Microsoft Business Framework (MBF). The Microsoft Business Framework is…
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Oracle DBAs Brace for Urgent Patch Chores
More than a few database administrators will likely spending at least part of their Labor Day weekend installing the security patches Oracle Corp. released Tuesday, or if not, they should be, according to one database administrator. “I expect a lot of database administrators will be applying these patches over the next few days or over…
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First Steps from NT to Server 2003
OK, you’ve finished your NT server network cleanup and prep work, so now what? There are two basic approaches to upgrading from NT to Server 2003. The first is an upgrade, and the second comprises an upgrade and restructuring. With an upgrade, you keep the same network structure you already have and simply replace your…
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Cuts to Longhorn Don’t Faze IT Managers
Microsoft’s sweeping changes to its next major Windows release are drawing little surprise from enterprise IT departments, many of whom were not counting on the most revolutionary changes promised in Longhorn. Late last week, Microsoft announced that it was dropping a centerpiece of Longhorn called WinFS (Windows File System) in order to meet its schedule…
