Datamation Staff

By Charlie Garry The open source movement is doing battle with some of the world’s largest software companies. Its communities of developers, spread around the world and connected only via e-mail and list servers, hope to revolutionize the way software is developed and maintained. www.metagroup.com Although the movement is a compelling story, business realities (e.g., […]

By Carl Lehmann In recent months, peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has been much hyped, promising to simplify information search and retrieval, better enable resource sharing, and help integrate software applications now distributed across computer networks. www.metagroup.com Simply defined, P2P is an IT architectural precept that links and exploits all available networked technology (including, CPUs, storage, files, […]

See Full Table Features Kaminario K2 | sort Dell EMC PowerMax X-IO ISE 900 HPE StoreFabric M-Series Netapp AFA A800 Scale-up Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Scale-out Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Capacity Raw capacity 4 PB 4 PB 4 PB 4 PB 4 PB Usable capacity (no deduplication) 5 PB 5 PB 5 PB […]

By Drew Robb For cable and telecommunications companies eager to move business customers into the fast downloading world of the broadband Internet, it is the best of times. Once businesses have tasted broadband’s delights — setting up virtual wide-area networks, conducting videoconferences, or heedlessly using other bandwidth-sucking applications — a return to dial-up days is […]

By Patrick Fitzgerald Consultant, TechMetrix Research As discussed in Part 1, top-notch enterprise information portals — Web interfaces that act as a single point of access to business data, applications, and services for employees, partners, suppliers, and customers — should include the features of integration, personalization, and content management. We continue today the list of […]

By Al Passori Consultant, META Group During 2001-03, we predict more than a quarter of Global 2000 CIOs that specialize as turnaround specialists (15 to 25 percent of the CIO population) will adopt a process to restructure IT resources and divest (or outsource) low-value IT operations. This is in response to a slowing economy, increasing […]

By Patrick Fitzgerald Consultant, TechMetrix Research The idea of a portal is hardly new — at least in Internet terms. It’s a tool or service that brings information together and opens it up to a wide audience. Add some personalization and you’ve got something not much different than Yahoo! — one of the most popular […]

By D.E. Levine What is a UPS? As power outages roll across the west coast and rumors abound that there will be similar outages in the east, we take a look at why and how an uninterruptible power source can save your data and your peace of mind. Regardless of which operating systems you’re running […]

CIOs, IT managers, content developers and others creating and deploying enterprise Web systems can get help this week at the 2001 Enterprise Web & Portal Conference & Exposition, presented by META Group and Intermedia Group, an internet.com company. The event takes place in Boston on May 23-24. For details or to register, click here. The […]

In Part 2, Sun responds that overall system architecture, and not just energy costs savings, should determine which server platform to use in the glass house, while author Scott Courtney does an in-depth comparision of the two glass house platforms–a mainframe running Linux and a Sun server farm running Solaris. As you might expect, Sun […]