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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.
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.
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.
Clamp A Lock On Data
Startup rolls out line of security blades to protect and monitor server data
Nearby Data Is Useful Data
Storigen Systems offers method for moving information so it's cached closer to users
Wring More Value Out Of Your Storage
Software from Teracloud lets customers make more efficient use of resources
Empowered To Protect
New technology, longer power reserves, and lower costs make for better UPS systems
Now You See It, Now You Don't
Xerox printing technology lets users hide images for use in advertising, fraud-prevention, and more
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.
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.'
AMD Bets Its Future on 64-bit Opteron Chip
The chip is designed to offer the flexibility of simultaneously supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit app.
Think Tank Bemoans Sad State Of Storage Security
Storage system security is getting little attention on many levels, according to a recent report from research firm The451
CA Unveils Storage-Management Software
Computer Associates unveils multiple storage-management product enhancements to improve the integration of its storage software.
Apple's New Music Service Plays A Merry Tune
The vendor says its iTunes Music Store sold more than 1 million songs in its first week
New Tactics
EMC has slashed prices, formed alliances, and embraced standards. What a change.
Big Players Gear Up For Storage World Conference
A specification drive and product demonstrations will highlight the showcase of the latest in enterprise-class storage
Alcatel Narrows Losses, Hopes To Break Even
The French telecom equipment maker lost $507 million in its first quarter as sales fell 31%, but still hopes to break even by year's end
ISS Wants To Do It All
The vendor maps plans to develop security appliances that will make it a one-stop shop for IT security.
IBM Tries Undercutting Bigger Unix Servers
It has introduced an entry-level server featuring capabilities typically found in bigger, more expensive servers.
Merrill Lynch Sees Little Growth In Hardware Shipments
With shipments lagging orders by three months, the start of the second half doesn't look so good, a new report says.
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