e-Appliance Stuffs Four Servers in a 1U Rack

SharePoint Portal Server Released to Manufacturing

SharePoint Portal Server, formerly codenamed Tahoe, was released to manufacturing today. A final version of the package designed to speed portal and intranet development is available to select OEMs and professional services organizations 03/28/2001

Dell Refreshes Dense Server

Support.com Releases Version 5.0

Intel Ships 900 MHz Xeons

NetIQ Releases AppManager 4.0

OSA Delivers Laptop Support for SMS

Quest Updates DM/Active Roles

Unisys Scale-up Benchmarking Progresses to 24 Processors

The documented vertical scalability of the Windows server platform jumped by eight processors today. Unisys Corp. published results of a mySAP.com Sales & Distribution (SAP SD) benchmark using a 24-processor server based on Unisys' Cellular MultiProcessing Architecture. 03/26/2001

Windows XP, Whistler Server Hit Beta 2

Windows XP, the next version of Microsoft’s client operating system, and Whistler Server, the upcoming server release, have reached Beta 2 status. Windows XP and Whistler will unify the code bases for Microsoft’s consumer and business operating systems. 03/26/2001

IBM Shows its Hand in High-End Windows Hardware

IBM's eServer xSeries 430 will be IBM's champion against Unisys' CMP in the high-end Windows server market. The system won't support Windows until the Whistler Datacenter Server release. 03/26/2001

Tablet PCs Debut at WinHEC

Tablet PC to ship some time in 2002; Windows XP Beta 2, Hailstorm also top announcements from Microsoft and partners. 03/26/2001

IBM Presses Ahead with Scale-Out Benchmark on Datacenter

IBM now tops the TPC OLTP benchmark performance list with a 32-node cluster running Windows 2000 Datacenter Server and, oddly, SQL Server 2000 rather than DB2. 03/26/2001

Front, Face! MCP Magazine Wants To Publish Your Picture!

For an upcoming special project, MCP Magazine would like to publish photographs of its readers. 03/21/2001

Cryptologists Allege Flaw in PGP

Cryptologists in Prague say they found a flaw in PGP, the most common encryption algorithm for securing e-mail messages, according to a published report. 03/21/2001

One Year on the Market: Windows 2000 Rocket Ready to Take Off

Industry-Standard Benchmarking of ES7000 Begins

MCP Magazine Wants To Publish Your Picture!

For an upcoming special project, MCP Magazine would like to publish photographs of its readers. 03/21/2001

NEC Server Part of Datacenter 2000 Program Overseas

IDC Cautious On IT Spending

IDC has released a report describing current trends in IT spending on software, services, and hardware. The analyst group predicts slower growth, partially due to the US economic slowdown. 03/21/2001

IBM's Web Services: A Horse with No Name?

SQL Server Slides Up Winter Corp. Scale

The Winter Corp. has recognized two companies for their SQL Server 2000 implementations in its Database Scalability Program 2000. 03/21/2001

Companies Set to Ramp Up Internet Spending

Microsoft Forecasts HailStorm

Microsoft unwraps .NET generation of online services it will provide that build on current foundation of Passport, Hotmail and MSN Messenger. Initial plans call for 14 Internet services in HailStorm. 03/20/2001

CommVault Extends Backup Software to HP-UX, Linux

Commentary/HailStorm: A Radical Approach to New Problems

Microsoft’s HailStorm services offer a potential solution to some fragmentation problems posed by the proliferation of technology. Consumers and businesses will have to come to grips with whether they can trust Microsoft in the position it aspires to assume – steward of everyone’s privacy. 03/20/2001

Seattle Lab Releases SLmail 5.0

Lotus Clarifies Domino 4.6 Support Issue

Remote Server Management Via Wireless Devices

McData Unveils 32-port Fabric Switch

BindView Unveils Configuration Tool for NDS

NetIQ Adds to Exchange/W2K Migration Tool Family

German Army Bans Microsoft Software

The German army and foreign office will ban Microsoft software in sensitive areas due to concerns that the U.S. National Security Agency has complete access to Microsoft source code, according to a German news magazine. 03/19/2001

Altiris Buys Another SMS Player

PC lifecycle management vendor Altiris Inc. today unveiled the acquisition of a third-party tools and services vendor focused on the Microsoft Systems Management Server market. 03/19/2001

Do You Have Experience with Microsoft's Frameworks?

MCP Magazine seeks MCPs with expertise for writing assignments, including Microsoft's Readiness, Operations, and Solutions Frameworks. 03/15/2001

Third-party Vendors Deliver Application Center 2000-focused Tools

The beginnings of another Microsoft-centric third-party market space took shape with the general availability of Application Center 2000. 03/15/2001

Application Center Goes Into General Availability

Microsoft Corp. announced this week at Internet World in Los Angeles that its first product for configuring and managing Web applications, Application Center 2000, has gone into general availability. 03/15/2001

Exchange 2000 Server Messaging Exam Set for Release

Exam tests messaging infrastructure planning and implementation. 03/15/2001

WSDL Spec. Sent to W3C

A key specification for Microsoft Corp’s .NET initiative has been submitted for review to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). 03/15/2001

TCPmag.com Releases Salary Survey for Cisco Professionals

IDC: Server Sales Grew in Q4

In the midst of miserable economic news on all fronts, IDC reports that worldwide server sales grew on booming rack-optimized server sales in Q4 2000. 03/15/2001

NetBotz Adds to Capabilities of Rack Monitoring Appliance

Microsoft, eBay Announce Alliance

Microsoft and eBay announced a strategic alliance in which eBay will support .NET technologies. 03/13/2001

DuoCor Releases System Guardian/XC 2000

Microsoft Application Center Server Debuts at Internet World

.NET server key to Microsoft's Web-based application hosting strategy. 03/13/2001

DataReturn Introduces New Security Suite

New NetIQ Security Module Provides Real-Time Protection

Sendmail Ports Switch to Windows NT/2000

Configuresoft’s ECM Protects Windows Security Holes

TCPmag.com Releases Salary Survey for Cisco Professionals

Find out how well Cisco IT professionals are being compensated in this inaugural survey. 03/13/2001