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posted in March 2003
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Langa Letter: Your Next PC: Legacy Free?
IBM's PC AT has cast a shadow over PC system architecture for more than two decades. Thanks to advances such as Intel's EFI, PC vendors are on the verge of breaking the legacy bottlenecks. Kiss your BIOS goodbye.
Iron Mountain Will Add IM To Storage Offerings
The vendor will let customers search for E-mail and IM data based on a person's E-mail address.
The Sex Appeal Of Copiers
People want a copy experience that's faster, cheaper, and, apparently, easier on the eye.
Startups Pushing The Idea Of Web-Services Hubs
Blue Titan is trying to create Web-services hubs in the enterprise where an existing networked service can be called and reused by more than one application. By Charles Babcock
McNealy And Ellison Sail The High Seas
Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy teamed up with Oracle chairman Larry Ellison for a bit of comic relief on stage at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
IBM Touts Lower Support Costs In New Desktops
It's touting the Rapid Restore Ultra capability, which lets users recover from software problems more quickly without help-desk assistance
HP Tries To Push PC Sales
It's introducing an upgrade plan that could reduce companies' cost of replacing older machines
EMC And Microsoft Set Out To Dominate Storage Networks
The storage vendor licenses Windows to run its new NetWin 200 offering.
Witness Buying Financial-Transaction Recording Firm
It's buying Eyretel, another call-center quality-assurance firm that's mostly deployed on the trading floors of financial companies.
Sun Readies New Systems, Cuts Prices On Midrange Servers
The vendor will debut blade servers and IA-32 systems after trimming prices on its 12-way SunFire V1280 rack-mounted server.
Wireless Starter Kit For Business
IBM's Jumpstart package aims to tie company employees to networks via wireless services
Gates Lays Out Reasons To Buy IT Again
He talked about everything from a more-affordable Microsoft's Windows CE to an ambitious plan for data-center automation that could take five years to realize.
Making Tape Backup Less Of A Remote Nightmare
Due to ship this week, WebDrive Sync Engine lets people enter a password on the Web, click on a file icon, and witness all the time-stamped changes they've made to their files.
Taking Stock: Marvell Thrives While Others Wither
The company faces increased competition from Intel and others
The Picture Of Health
St. Louis hospital upgrades storage systems to give doctors fast access to medical images
SunGard Exec Ponders Revivio
SunGard Securities executive discusses why he's interested in storage products from a startup company.
Apple's Profits Plunge, But Beat Expectations
The computer maker reported a $14 million profit for its second quarter, down 65% from the year-ago quarter but better than Wall Street's projections
Cisco Launches Internet Telephony Push
The networking vendor unveils low-end and high-end voice-over-IP phones in an effort to broaden the appeal of Internet telephony for business.
Xerox Technology Colors Users' Worlds
Switch-A-View printing technology lets users print one image on top of another, then view them one at a time by exposing the document to specific colors of light.
Sun Plays Catch-Up On Low-Cost Computing
The vendor will forsake its exclusively Sparc history and dive into the lower-cost end of the computing pool.
Blade PCs Catch IBM's And HP's Attention
The two vendors are cautiously approaching the young market
Niku Adds To Portfolio-Management Momentum
Niku 6.1 includes business-intelligence tools that let managers build dashboards and alerts related to projects.
CIOs Sure Think IT Matters
CIOs and chief technology officers beg to differ with a recent Harvard Business Review article titled 'IT Doesn't Matter.'
Empowered To Protect
New technology, longer power reserves, and lower costs make for better UPS systems
HP Hopes Restructuring Will Accelerate Growth
Hewlett-Packard is combining the three hardware units in its Enterprise Systems Group into one.
Thumbs Down In 1Q For Handhelds
Shipments of handheld devices fell more than 11% in the first quarter, as the industry continued to take a pummeling from the weak economy
Tech Spending Shows Signs Of Life
IDC and Aberdeen Group both predict tech spending will rise globally this year, far better than the 6.2% contraction over the past two years.
Ericsson Hands IT Over To HP
HP says it will help Ericsson create tighter links between business and IT.
Making It Easier To Work In Legacy/Desktop World
Net Express 4 lets developers more easily link Cobol business logic to Web-services apps
IT Spending Staying Flat
A Morgan Stanley study shows little overall movement in technology spending
CA Unveils New Storage-Management Software
Portal lets customers integrate apps and platforms from different vendors
Q&A With Dan Reed
InformationWeek speaks with the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications about grid computing, proliferating scientific data, and the center's future.
HP Looks To Utility Computing For Growth
Adaptive Enterprise strategy combines hardware, software, and services
Data Gatekeeper
Newcomer 14 South's security blades are designed to protect IT systems and intranets from internal attacks, and can serve as a line of defense against outsiders, too.
Data Protection With Less Hassle
Revivio's storage offering catches changes to databases and simplifies information restoration.
CDC Uses Linux Cluster To Study Smallpox
Though the CDC is officially a Windows shop, Linux is the cheapest and most-effective way for the center to cluster servers.
EMC Snaps Slump, Turns A Profit
The storage leader reported net income of $35 million, ending a string of poor quarters.
Corning to Cut 1,000 Jobs, Close Plant
The fiber-optics maker is closing a plant in State College, Pa., as it continues its efforts to return to profitability.
Intel Delays New Pentium 4
New processor developed "anomalies" during testing and will be delayed for an unspecified amount of time.
IBM Readies More Powerful Mainframe
The T-Rex unit will be capable of processing 450 Mips, one-third more than IBM's most powerful current mainframe.
Making All Your Data One Logical Unit
HP's new Utility Data Center is designed to help unite disparate systems into a single, manageable whole.
Quicker Data Access
Storigen aims to bring high-speed data availability to remote access.
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