Dan Muse

With Fibre Channel in place and iSCSI gaining ground on the IP front, why the need for FCoE? “Today we have separate networks for storage and traffic in the data center,” Brian Garrett an analyst is Enterprise Strategy Group, said. “For enterprise-class applications, FC is the king. For general purpose networking, Ethernet rules.” The problem […]

The lack of an official, ratified standard isn’t slowing the stream of 802.11n wireless products. Even though the current draft specification isn’t expected to be voted on by the IEEE until January, vendors continue to ship products to meet what they say is growing demand for greater wireless throughput. Draft 802.11n products promise speeds substantially […]

Remember the old Miller Lite beer commercials? Two groups would argue loudly over which attribute was more important in a light beer. Should it be “less filling” or was “tastes great” the key? In reality, of course, we all know they are equally important. When it comes to storage, it’s easy to imagine a similar […]

Looking to find a way to let peer-to-peer communications traverse NATs and firewalls in a single bound, Microsoft and Cisco Systems recently announced that they are jointly endorsing the Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) methodology. ICE, which is not yet ratified but currently under consideration by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is designed to allow […]

There was a time, not long ago, when the only type of electronic vermin businesses had to deal with were the Trojan horses and viruses that came through e-mail. Even as the computer industry still wrestles with e-mail-borne malware, new forms of electronic communication are opening new doors to your network. To find out just […]

Enterprises may be drawing a bead on how to establish policies for Internet and e-mail use, but they appear to be misplaying instant messaging, according to survey results that will be released tomorrow by SurfControl, a Scotts Valley, Calif. -based Internet security company. The survey asked 7,593 SurfControl customers in the U.S. about their IT […]

In an ideal world, competent technical support would come for free with the purchase of a computer. In reality, it doesn’t always work that way. Regardless of what vendor or service provider you buy from, you have probably experienced elaborate voicemail systems and long waits on hold that you’d swear are designed to make you […]

Looking to fill out its server line with an offering aimed at large enterprises running transaction-intensive applications, IBM today announced the eServer xSeries 455, which is based on Intel’s 64-bit Itanium 2 processor. Designed, according to Big Blue, with scalability in mind, the xSeries 455 uses IBM’s Enterprise X-Architecture (EXA), which takes advantage of what […]

ASP customers are happy and likely to continue using application outsourcing services, according to a report released today by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), an Arlington, Va.-based trade group that serves the IT industry. Read and React “While the name may change, the ASP model is here to stay. The outsourcing of the […]

The advent of Web services will lead application developers to adopt a client/services model, predicts the Yankee Group, a Boston-based research firm. These next-generation applications promise to offer the best of local and centralized computing worlds. The client/services architecture will take advantage of local computer power, ubiquitous connectivity and Web services to create a richer […]