Tag: migration

  • NetEx Introduces IP WAN Data Migration

    NetEx Introduces IP WAN Data Migration

    Karen Schwartz

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    Data transport vendor NetEx has come up with a different way—and more predictable, faster, and cheaper, company executives claim—to migrate large amounts of data over IP WAN connections. The service, called the DMO (Data Migration Optimizer) program, offers resellers and systems integrators, as well as large companies interested in attempting migration independently, a way to… Read more

  • CA Releases End-to-End Data Protection for SMBs

    CA Releases End-to-End Data Protection for SMBs

    Karen Schwartz

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    Offering security, simplicity and ease, Computer Associates has expanded the release of five Protection Suites aimed at small and midsize businesses. The goal, according to David Luft, senior vice president of SMB product development at Computer Associates International Inc. of Islandia, N.Y., is to provide an easy-to-use, all-in-one solution that addresses the security, storage and… Read more

  • What Will EMC Migration Program Mean?

    What Will EMC Migration Program Mean?

    Karen Schwartz

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    EMC’s quiet announcement of a program that offers financial incentives for customers to abandon Veritas storage products for EMC’s own portfolio may influence some to make the switch, although experts don’t believe it will cause enough change to effect a market shift. The deal, dubbed “Safe Switch,” offers users financial incentives to switch to a… Read more

  • Microsoft Waves Discounts Under PeopleSoft Users’ Noses

    Microsoft Waves Discounts Under PeopleSoft Users’ Noses

    Lisa Vaas

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    In spite of having proclaimed itself a noncompetitor during the U.S. Department of Justice’s trial against Oracle Corp.’s takeover of PeopleSoft Inc., Microsoft Corp. is acting very similar to a competitor, wasting no time in offering migration services and hefty discounts to lure PeopleSoft users into migrating to its business management applications. The company on… Read more

  • It’s the End of the NT World as We Know It

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    NT Server 4 doomsday has arrived. On Jan. 1, Microsoft’s no-fee support and non-security hot fixes disappear. So what are you going to do now? Well, you’ll need to do something. New security holes continue to be found in NT on a regular basis. For example, if you replicate data between WINS (Windows Internet Name… Read more

  • Reverse Migration: From Linux to Windows

    Reverse Migration: From Linux to Windows

    Peter Galli

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    As Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged more than once, the company is losing business to Linux deployments. But the story doesn’t end there. Some large enterprises have taken the Linux challenge only to switch back to Windows, dissatisfied with the open-source alternative. Problems with application incompatibilities, poor performance, escalating support costs and an immature Linux ecosystem… Read more