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Only a few years ago, you could predict that most--if not all--of the users and contributors to a project would be employees of a particular company and that those employees […]

When members of your workgroup think about "data storage," they're probably thinking about shared network devices--file servers, compact network-attached storage appliances, even optical jukeboxes filled with software, documents, clip-art, and […]

Procom Technology Inc.'s new high-end network-attached storage server, the NetForce 3500, is designed for medium-sized enterprises or large departmental data centers with storage needs in the low end of the […]

Enterprises will spend too much this year creating monolithic apps -- the sort of server-side efforts that involve formal requirements and tie up dozens (or hundreds) of architects, coders, and […]

When most IT people think of hardware from Sun Microsystems, they likely think of massively parallel servers, such as its giant Sun Fire systems.However, the company got its start as […]

See correction at end of review Dual-core technology is here. It's mainstream, and it's now part of the enterprise server ecosystem. IBM and Sun Microsystems led the charge with dual-core […]

With its new eServer OpenPower 710 and eServer p5 510, IBM has delivered two state-of-the-art enterprise servers that can handle transactions galore. And these products sport what is probably the […]

Solaris 10 is nothing like Solaris 9. When it comes to support for x86 processors, that's good. It's been two years since InfoWorld reviewed Solaris 9 x86, and since then […]

It's unusual to encounter a high-end desktop PC designed specifically to run Solaris, Sun's version of Unix. It's particularly unusual to find one that runs dual Opteron processors and is […]

Who says the Itanium 2 processor is dead? Certainly not Hewlett-Packard, which has introduced a strong dual-processor server, the Integrity rx1620-2, into its enterprise lineup. HP, a co-inventor and longtime […]

Blade servers are evolving at a feverish pace, and Dell's PowerEdge 1855 system shows just how far the technology has come. Previous blade systems I've seen suffered from severe restrictions […]

Companies such as MapQuest and Microsoft (with its MapPoint Location Server) are at the forefront of location-aware enterprise applications, using location data to build a customized data display or to […]

Eight hardware threads in a four-processor system -- that's the innovation behind the Sun Fire V490, one of the first two models to use the company's new dual-core UltraSparc IV […]

Thanks to a new breed of microprocessors from Intel and AMD, thin is in, with more power than previously available in the familiar 1U rack- mountable pizza box format. Recently, […]

Control tower, RLX's application for managing its server blades and blade chassis, has long been one of the best server administration tools available. With the newest release, 6G, it gains […]

AMD's 64-bit Opteron microprocessor has been embraced by nearly all server manufacturers, many of which are targeting the 'sweet spot' of a 1U, dual-processor pizza box. Hewlett-Packard, however, released the […]

Sun's first foray into the AMD-based server market, the Sun Fire V20z, is nothing unusual -- beyond its dual Opteron processors, that is. What the company is offering is a […]

When was the last time you swapped out the processors on a production server? Have you ever ripped out a working system's RAID controller and substituted one with bigger cache? […]

Dell's new dual-processor PowerEdge 1850 and PowerEdge 2850 servers -- the company's first to use Nocona -- represent a significant upgrade for x86-based servers, and they will prove to be […]

The foundation of Sun's autonomic computing initiatives is N1, a set of applications that enables utility computing -- that is, where applications can be dynamically configured via software. N1 is […]

Sun has been taking it on the chin for the past few months -- OK, longer than that -- what with flagging financials, management turmoil, disappointing market share, and even […]

RLX latest offering is what the company calls a 'modular computing' solution, containing blade servers and FC (Fibre Channel) storage arrays, plus an enhanced version of its Control Tower management […]

Two new industry specifications may standardize the logical separation of portal applications -- aka portlets -- from the portal servers that use their services. The benefits of such a separation […]

Don't make the mistake of thinking you'll need a pricey portal for your enterprise or departmental project. The big-ticket suites arguably offer larger feature sets and broader support, but they're […]

The ES7000 Orion 540 enterprise server from Unisys successfully merges attributes from three worlds: the application support of a typical Windows server, the scalability of a Unix server, and the […]

The IBM eServer 325 is the first major-brand server to use AMD's new 64-bit Opteron processor. Introduced in July 2003 and having first shipped in October, this is the only […]

The enterprise software acronym of the year must be SOA (service- oriented architecture). The concept behind SOA -- that applications should expose their functionality as 'services' in a way that […]

When it comes to Unix, Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system shines on the company's 64-bit SPARC processors. Unfortunately, the picture is less bright for the version of Solaris written for […]

When your office has a monitored burglar alarm system installed, is it a product or a service? With infrared motion detectors and sirens, you might think that a security system […]

Computer Associates' eTrust Antivirus 7.0 is similar to enterprise antivirus solutions from other leading vendors such as McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro. But CA's solution distinguishes itself in several important […]

When an ordinary Intel-based server doesn't deliver the oomph or reliability that a specific application needs, you have three choices. One, you can scale vertically by migrating to a server […]

You've seen the high-profile role that e-mail records have played in recent accounting scandals. But what about instant messaging? Today, much vital business communication occurs over IM (instant messaging), thanks […]

Looking for all the performance and functionality of a conventional low- profile server but in half the space? The Dell PowerEdge 1655MC (Modular Computing) blade server could be the ticket. […]

The emerging category of blade servers appears to be bifurcating. On the one hand, there are ultrahigh-density server systems, such as RLX Technologies' System300ex, which crams as many as 24 […]

While Sonicblue's ReplayTV 5040 is one of the newest PVRs (personal video recorders) on the market, it's by no means the only player or even the best known. TiVo's PVR […]

PVRs (personal video recorders), such as Sonicblue's ReplayTV 5040, change the nature of television watching. Combining a digital TV tuner with a large hard drive, PVRs offer the capability of […]

BLADES DECONSTRUCT the enterprise server to the bare minimum -- processors, memory, chipset, hard drives, and network interfaces -- mounting all on a circuit board that's stuffed into a high-density […]

WHILE CLUSTERED or load-balanced servers can be an architecturally elegant way of scaling new applications, they present significant challenges for deployment and administration, ranging from ease of software deployment and […]

Screening of airline baggage, shipping containers, rail cars, and large trucks has taken on new urgency since the September 11 terrorist attacks. X-rays and metal detectors can reveal knives and […]

MOST BUSINESS people face the nuisance of security several times a day: entering and reentering log-on names and passwords to access a variety of servers inside and outside the corporate […]

The least visible part of your company's computer network is likely the most vital. It's your server, a high-powered PC that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, […]

Think back to the mid-'90s, when personal investing was a low-volume, high-margin business. It was filled with inefficiencies unrelated to the actual trading of stocks, like telephone calls, visits to […]

Behind what looks like the simple process of making a phone call is a complex interconnected set of services. At the heart of voice calls sits a special data network, […]

Annette Dupres has found a way to better understand her customers and grow her small business: data mining. Ms. Dupres inherited two sidewalk cafes on the Champs-Elysees in Paris from […]

With storage needs increasing all the time, businesses are constantly looking for better and less expensive storage technologies. The most prevalent one is the storage area network, or SAN, which […]

In today's energy economy, most electricity is produced using fossil fuel-burning generators. These machines consist of a motor and a dense coil of copper wires that surround a shaft containing […]

DOUBLE DUTY The MediaFile software, running under MacOS 8.6, lets users mount and dismount discs and administrators load and unload the library. CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs are in high demand for […]

Those little pizza-box servers are so passe. The days when one could get excited about a dual-processor server sitting inside a 1U (1.75-inch) rack-mounted housing seem so distant, so quaint. […]