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Software heals systems while they work
News In July, IBM unveiled version 8 of its DB2 database server software, furthering the autonomic computing-like features it includes. Database market leader Oracle also offers self-managing tools as part of its Oracle 9i database server software.
[November 1, 2002, 8:17]
Centralise security for success
News And what about the terminated employee's special access to the remote file server on the 4th floor? This includes the employee who shuts down the email server with spam or viruses, the employee who locks out colleagues from their accounts and...
[November 7, 2001, 9:53]
Virtualisation gets a harder edge
News For one thing, server makers have their own management software to sell. Likewise, XenSource has a partnership with a tier-one server company that will use its software, but XenSource won't announce which company until 30 days from now, said chief...
[September 10, 2007, 16:54]
Security takes more than patch management
News Too many have been burned by server farms going dark with a collective "blue screen of death" after applying a buggy service pack and are, quite reasonably, skittish about automatically slapping the latest patches on their production servers.
[November 17, 2003, 11:10]
Single PC to adopt multiple OS
News Microsoft's Virtual Server product, though, isn't expected until early 2004, and, for now, the software giant is focused on PCs. VMware and Virtual Server are part of that. Virtualisation, an old concept, is experiencing a new surge of attention...
[November 10, 2003, 10:00]
Novell starts selling Java-boosted Linux
News It also means Novell and Red Hat will compete more with established application server sellers such as BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. Novell began selling version 9 of its flagship Linux product on Tuesday, adding Java server...
[August 4, 2004, 11:00]
How Intel's supercomputer almost used HP chips
News Some physical machines house as many as 20 virtual systems, but for business-critical tasks, Dell puts 10 virtual machines on a physical server, Prince said. Companies including Fusion-io and Texas Memory Systems supply the technology, and Prince...
[September 24, 2009, 13:51]
IBM targets developers in cloud push
News The company said this service significantly reduces power consumption, simplifies management and can cut lower-end support costs by up to 40 percent, compared with conventional desktop systems. David Mitchell, senior vice president of IT research...
[June 16, 2009, 15:23]
Desktop Linux for small business review
Reviews There is quite a lot of variety in the installation systems, with Novell's YaST2 a particularly shining example, performing a good job in a clearly understandable way, and returning as a system management tool in the operating system itself.
[November 24, 2005, 12:40]
802.1x - Securing the wireless world
News The first 802.11b access control systems, published in 1999, relied on the client's MAC address -- unique to every Ethernet device -- being known to the server. The encoded password is sent back, the server checks this against its private copy of...
[April 24, 2002, 20:54]
IBM conserves power with new chip
News That compares with Big Blue's current P690 "Regatta" system, which has 16 dual-core Power4 chips that function as a 32-processor server. IBM plans to release the Power5 chip in a 64-processor server code-named Squadron.
[October 15, 2003, 8:40]
Microsoft unveils new security initiatives
News As part of that initiative, the company delayed the shipment of several high-profile products, including its Windows Server 2003 operating system and Visual Studio.Net development tools, in order to perform audits and code reviews, according to...
[June 4, 2003, 8:28]
Time to set storage strategy
News NAS devices allow users to share storage without having to manage the complexity of a local server. By the end of the year, several companies will be offering remotely manageable hardware solutions that integrate firewall, router, wireless access...
[September 12, 2002, 9:12]
Free at last: Novell gives away directory tool
News Novell's eDirectory runs on several server operating systems, including NetWare, Windows 2000, Sun's Solaris, Linux and Compaq Computer's Tru64 Unix. Microsoft made its Active Directory a focal point of its efforts to drive sales of its Windows...
[May 10, 2001, 9:33]
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 review
Reviews Moreover, Samba is now integrated into the YaST management utility along with new modules to configure the bundled mail server software and manage the VPN configuration, with support in this release for both Linux and Windows VPN clients.
[December 6, 2004, 8:35]
Sun to launch comeback plan
News Sun shook up computing giants in the late 1990s with its success in selling heavy-duty networked "server" computers, machines that caught IBM and Hewlett-Packard flat-footed, and with its Java software, a cross-platform programming language that...
[September 16, 2002, 12:22]
Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing
News Red Hat claimed the system, which is priced from $249 (£141) per node, costs less than Microsoft's Windows HPC Server 2008, which also integrates clustering and management components. IBM, also a major player in the Top500 list, in July introduced...
[October 3, 2008, 15:25]
Citrix releases cloud suite, new XenServer 5
News It uses a new 'cloud edition' of XenServer for server virtualisation and all the products needed to deliver cloud services, Citrix said. It also provides the ability to import Linux virtual machines and Windows Server 2008 virtual machines created...
[September 15, 2008, 14:59]
Compaq blade servers slice a chip off HP block
News By comparison, HP's blades, launched last year, fit 16 server blades into a 13U enclosure, using 18-inch CompactPCI cards. Companies are consolidating departmental servers in a server farm. HP's blade server holds 16 blades with 32-bit Intel...
[January 28, 2002, 11:09]
HP fails to meet analysts' expectations
News The company's enterprise server and storage segment reported total revenue of $3.4bn, down 5 percent from a year ago. Products that declined the most in the server business were Alpha servers, where revenue fell 32 percent compared with a year ago...
[August 12, 2004, 15:30]
