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IBM Adds New Power5 iSeries Server
IBM is extending the reach of its Power5-based i5 server family by rolling out a midrange server and expanding the management and operating system support for all i5 systems. IBM next month will start shipping the i5 550, a four-way system targeted at midsize businesses that will include such features as IBM’s On/Off Capacity on…
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Oracle Still Sitting on Database-Security Patches
Oracle Corp. is in public-relations hot water after weeks of stony silence on its delay in releasing 34 security vulnerabilities patches for flaws it has known about since January or February. “Clearly, it’s a good thing that they’re getting the patches ready, but it seems to me that Microsoft [Corp.] has gotten a lot of…
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Microsoft Updates Its Mainframe Connectivity Server
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the 2004 version of its Host Integration Server (HIS) product, which is designed to integrate IBM mainframes and servers with Windows systems. The 2004 edition is the first update Microsoft has made to its mainframe-gateway product in four years. “The goal with HIS is to help customers get the data that’s…
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Maxtor’s New 300GB Drives Designed For Speed
Maxtor Corp. on Monday announced a pair of Serial ATA hard drives, increasing capacities to 300MB while offering native command queuing and a significantly larger 16MB buffer. The new 7,200-rpm drives point to a new axis for improvement in hard drives: throughput. Both the additional buffer size and the NCQ technologies are designed to move…
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HP Faces New Realities in a 64-Bit World
One of the issues facing Hewlett-Packard’s high-end server business is that it is being forced to fight a two-front war. The company’s Alpha and HP9000 series servers, which are equipped with 64-bit processors, are competing with the likes of IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. in the Unix space, plus emerging 64-bit x86 architectures that run…
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Outsourcing Deals: Better the Second Time
Everyone’s always looking for a better deal, aren’t they? Hey, better deals are closely related to the pursuit of happiness, which is, after all, one of our nation’s founding principles. So why is it that outsourcers and their customers are always so proud to announce really long deals—deals of seven, eight, even 10 years—that are…
