Michael Chait

With Microsoft’s Service Pack 3 for Exchange Server 2000 finally shipped out last week, attention and criticism is mounting for its next scheduled Exchange release, code-named Titanium. The Redmond, Wash., behemoth has recently begun disclosing the migration roadmap to get users of its messaging and collaboration software from Windows 2000 to .Net. But the message […]

The adoption of the recently developed Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) got a significant boost Tuesday, with the Nasdaq Stock Market, Microsoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers teaming up to show off the new platform for corporate reporting over the Internet. The three organizations have joined together on a pilot program to showcase the XML-based platform’s ability to […]

Three new flaws were discovered in Microsoft products that could allow a malicious user to cause havoc on your machine. The flaws were discovered in SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Metadirectory Services 2.2, and would allow a hacker to accomplish a variety of attacks. The most serious threat comes from the vulnerability in […]

In a move aimed at re-staking its claim in the high-end hard drive market, IBM Tuesday unveiled a new industrial-strength server hard disk drive. The Ultrastar 146Z10 debuts IBM’s new anti-vibration technology called Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS), which seeks to improve performance in large disk arrays. Vibration has become a serious obstacle to performance as […]

After a warning was issued two weeks ago that a chunk handling flaw on the popular Apache web server (define) application could leave servers vulnerable, security experts are now working to decode a worm that has been discovered exploiting the flaw. The worm, which is designed to infect computers running FreeBSD 4.5 and either Apache […]