HP Bundles Storage Management Solutions with SureStore

CCDA Study Sessions Begin Tonight!

Are you an MCSE who's interested in the Cisco certs? Join TCPmag.com and Andy Barkl for tonight's CCDA chat study session. 04/19/2000

Sales Slowing on Windows 2000?

Since release, Microsoft sales of latest networking operating system pegged at 1.5 million licenses. 04/18/2000

W2K Certified Virus Software Hits Virtual Shelves

FOSE: Ballmer Sings Praises of XML for ‘e-Government’

WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. president and CEO Steve Ballmer peddled XML as a key to what he called “e-government” interaction with its constituents during his keynote today to open the 24th annual Federal Office Systems Expo (FOSE) here. 04/18/2000

Windows World: Windows 2000 Licensing Slowing Down

The demand for Windows 2000 seems to be settling down after an initial spike that may have been related to an early adopter rush to obtain Microsoft Corp.’s flagship business operating system. 04/18/2000

StoragePoint.com Creates File Manager for WAP

April 18, 2000 04/18/2000

FOSE Trade Show Set to Open Tomorrow

The 24th annual Federal Office Systems Expo (FOSE) kicks off tomorrow in Washington, DC, and with it come many of the major vendors in the IT industry, eager to peddle their wares to various federal agencies and offices. 04/17/2000

Microsoft Gains Endorsement with Exodus Agreement

Microsoft Corp. today announced an agreement with Web site hosting company Exodus Communications Inc. under which the companies claim they will work together on a number of fronts. 04/17/2000

Compaq, SNI partner for Storage Utility

Compaq Computer Corp. and StorageNetworks Inc. have announced plans to partner on storage systems. SNI will deploy Compaq’s SAN solutions for use in the SNI Global Data Storage Network (GDSN), a play for providing storage services to the enterprise. 04/17/2000

Tranxition Makes Migration Tool Available

April 17, 2000 04/17/2000

Dell Rolls Out New 4-way Servers

Dell Computer Corp. began taking orders today for a pair of four-way, rack-optimized servers with enough memory capacity to max out the capabilities of Windows 2000 Advanced Server. 04/17/2000

Stratus to Bring Fault Tolerance Down to Windows 2000 Servers

Stratus Computer Systems is wedging its fault tolerant computing technology, which serves as a pillar of high-end financial transaction systems, into commodity Wintel servers. 04/17/2000

Our Window

To the people sitting on the opposite side of the network from administrators, software upgrades can be like getting wisdom teeth pulled. It’s better in the long run, but it's awfully painful while it happens. 04/14/2000

SAS Likely to Go Public

On the same day SAS Institute released the news that its 1999 revenues surpassed $1 billion, CEO Jim Goodnight announced to attendees of a customer conference that the company is likely to go public sometime during the next year and a half. 04/14/2000

Microsoft Releases Multilanguage Version of Windows 2000

Microsoft this week came out with the first cut of its Windows 2000 Professional, MultiLanguage Version. The client OS is designed to simplify Windows 2000 rollouts, usage and support in multinational corporations and multilanguage organizations. 04/13/2000

Microsoft Warns of NT 4.0 Bug

Microsoft has released a tool that installs tighter permissions on a Windows NT 4.0 registry key. The default permissions could allow a malicious user who can interactively log onto an NT 4.0 machine to compromise the cryptographic keys of other users who subsequently log onto the same machine. 04/13/2000

Nothing But Net/Mark McFadden: Bandwidth Battles

The next revolution on the Internet is being fueled not by a killer application but by a revolution in bandwidth. Instead of a new technology, such as instant messaging or e-commerce, the next breakthrough will be in the way we connect people and networks together. 04/13/2000

EMC Rolls Out Clariion Service Agreement

EMC today launched a four-point program to integrate more than 115,000 installed Clariion systems into the mainstream of EMC's global support network. The four points - warranty extension, reseller appreciation, EMC Flight Test, and legacy trade-up - provide a comprehensive support base for users of Clariion systems. 04/12/2000

Executive Software's Undelete 2.0 Earns W2K Certification

April 12, 2000 04/12/2000

HP Introduces Print Service Agreement

IDC: Server Market Took a Hit in Q4 1999

The worldwide server market declined 6 percent, to $14.9 billion in revenue, according to the latest quarterly server market data from IDC. 04/11/2000

How Does Your Company Rate with MCPs?

Do you work for a company that recognizes the important role of its Microsoft Certified Professionals? Tell us about it by filling out our "Best Companies" survey. 04/11/2000

Hummingbird Enhances Two Products

April 11, 2000 04/11/2000

Microsoft Debuts BizTalk Server 2000

Microsoft today announced public availability of the BizTalk Server 2000 technology preview. The preview is built on Microsoft's BizTalk initiative announced last year and begins Microsoft's next step toward an XML Internet application integration solution. 04/11/2000

IBM Introduces DB2 Version 7

IBM announced the release of version 7 of its DB2 Universal Database. In conjunction with the product announcement, the company has also released plans to hire 500 more data management software engineers and sales specialists. 04/11/2000

WWG Releases Network Tools, Solutions

CA, Gadzoox Partner on Serverless SANs

Gadzoox Networks has partnered with Computer Associates (CA) International to develop serverless backup capabilities and unified SAN and enterprise management under CA's Storage Area Network Integrated Technology Initiative (SANITI). 04/10/2000

IDC: Linux is Growing Fast

IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker study shows that Linux server shipments increased 166 percent in the fourth quarter of 1999 to become the fastest-growing operating environment in the server market. 04/10/2000

Cisco Rolls Out LAN Management Solution

April 10, 2000 04/10/2000

CA Unveils E-Business Platform

At its annual user conference CA-World 2000 in New Orleans, Computer Associates (CA) International officially released Jasmine ii, its integrated platform for e-business. 04/10/2000

Wyse Develops Personal Thin Client Devices

Argent Releases Quota Server 5.0

April 7, 2000 04/07/2000

Wyse Develops Entry-Level Enterprise Windows Terminals

Our Window/Alicia Costanza: A Virtual Ocean

As a strong and unpredictable power, the ocean has the capacity for great beauty, but also has the ability for mass destruction. It can be awesome, inspiring, and free flowing. The Internet is a lot like the ocean in this sense. 04/07/2000

Upgrading from Windows NT 4.0 to Win2K Beta Exam Postponed

Microsoft postpones, renames Exam 71-222 Upgrading from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000. 04/06/2000

Veritas Demonstrates 32-Node Cluster

Veritas staged the industry's first 32-node Windows NT clustering and wide-area failover demonstration at the opening night of Inforum 2000, the European storage management software users conference in London. 04/06/2000

NCR Releases Terabyte Data Warehousing Benchmark

NCR published a terabyte data warehouse performance benchmark on Windows 2000. The TPC-R benchmark was performed using NCR's Teradata relational database management system (RDBMS) for active data warehousing. 04/06/2000

Apple: QuickTime to Run on NT Servers

At Internet World in Los Angeles, Apple, the chief rival of Microsoft for operating system market share, released Darwin 1.0, its open-source operating system. 04/06/2000

Tivoli Delivers SANergy

DataDirect Introduces SAN Appliance

April 5, 2000 04/05/2000

StorageApps Delivers Enhanced Clustering for Veritas Cluster Server

BMC Guarantees On-Time Implementation

Mission Critical Releases Domain Migration Administrator 6.0

Business Objects Acquires OLAP@Work

Business Objects announced the acquisition of OLAP@Work, which it purchased for about $15 million. Business Objects is a business intelligence (BI) solutions provider, and OLAP@Work is a provider of OLAP (online analytical processing) tools. 04/05/2000

Dell Rolls Out Appliance Servers

Dell waded into the appliance server business today with the introduction of its PowerApp line of Web servers and Internet caching servers. 04/05/2000

Catapult Launches Inquisite Survey Software

MCP TechMentor 2000, Day 2: Mark Minasi's Windows 2000 Report Card

TradeMart Develops Employee Monitoring Software

April 4, 2000 04/04/2000

Microsoft Found Guilty as Charged

Moving another step closer to a remedy in the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson today stated that the software giant is guilty of maintaining its monopoly through predatory and anti-competitive means. 04/03/2000