Cisco Systems Inc. has announced two new wiring closest switches that incorporate all of the operating system software in a networking device, allowing IT managers to turn on features as needed.
IBM and Intel Corp. accelerated their horse race in semiconductors when each unveiled over the weekend similar chip-manufacturing advances.
Cisco Systems Inc. last week unveiled a digital signage system that it said will enable stores to display and easily update information about their products at checkout lines. .
Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and SAP AG all plan to unveil new offerings this week at the National Retail Federation 2007 conference in New York.
Microsoft Corp. today finished development on a Cognos Inc. last month added a link between its BI search engine and a new IBM-Yahoo Inc. search tool that it said will let users gather structured and unstructured data simultaneously. IT executives said that such combined searches can help users more quickly gather key data needed to make business decisions.
Microsoft Corp. today finished development on a new version of its Exchange messaging server a week after the company celebrated its launch alongside significant new releases of the Windows client operating system and Microsoft Office.
IBM and Cray Inc. have beat out Sun Microsystems Inc. to win sizable U.S government contracts to design a new generation supercomputer.
Says SQL Server will support 270TB installation for external customer
EMC Corp. today plans to unveil a new version of its Rainfinity file virtualization appliance with updated software that offers better integration with the company’s Centera fixed-data storage array.
EMC Corp. this week plans to unveil new offerings in its NetWorker line of backup and recovery software during the Storage Networking World conference in Orlando.
The final version of the new Firefox 2.0 Web browser will be launched Tuesday, just eight days after the last review candidate for the software was released for public use.
Hoping to push ahead of rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp. will bring its quad-core chips to market in a new line of Hewlett-Packard Co. workstations to be introduced on Nov. 13.
Data center managers have embraced server virtualization in the past year across a variety of businesses for nearly every kind of application as a way to reduce oversight and hardware costs, according to IT managers and analysts at Infrastructure Management World.
Every new pre-release iteration of Windows Vista has shown feature changes and visual updates, and Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is no different. But Vista's new look and feel is beginning to solidfy, and the last-minute features have gotten smaller, though no less intriguing.
Cisco Systems Inc. launched the smallest version yet of its biggest router -- a four-slot Carrier Routing System-1, intended to extend 40Gbit/sec. from a core network to regional carrier points of presence.
Windows Vista's support for flash-assisted hybrid hard drives could set the stage for faster, less power-hungry laptops, desktops and servers.
Microsoft has fixed a bug in a critical security patch that may have been causing problems for some Windows Server 2003 users.
IBM is donating 150,000 lines of code to help small and medium-sized physician practices connect their clinical applications into larger regional health information networks.
Microsoft Corp. and a partner are building an automobile dealer management system as the vendor looks to take advantage of a growing business.
IBM last week unveiled upgrades to the high end of its System p5 Unix server line that add dual-core Power5+ processors.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. last week unveiled the next generation of its blade server systems, which add improved management capabilities and technologies from its NonStop fault-tolerant line.
Intel Corp. is gearing up for its most important product launch since the introduction of the original Pentium processor, a top executive said today.
IBM next month will ship the next iteration of its storage virtualization software with extended data-replication capabilities, the company said today.
IBM next month will ship the next iteration of its storage virtualization software with extended data-replication capabilities, the company said today.
IBM on Thursday unveiled Workplace collaboration software and Lotus Notes for SAP business applications.
In almost every office, it eventually becomes necessary for users to collaborate on documents.

  Seagate shipping 160GB laptop drive
 

News Story by Martyn Williams

JANUARY 17, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Seagate Technology LLC announced this week it has begun shipping a 160GB hard disk drive for use in laptop computers.
The drive, which is the highest-capacity 2.5-in. drive on the market, according to the company, was promised last year. It is Seagate's first laptop drive to use perpendicular data recording.

Perpendicular recording involves standing the magnetic fields representing data bits upright. Most current drives use longitudinal recording, in which magnetic fields lay flat on the disk surface. Standing them upright means they take less space, enabling more to be packed on the disk and the storage capacity to be increased.

Seagate has said the drive will ship in the first quarter of 2006. By the end of this year, the company expects nearly all of its products will use perpendicular recording. The same technology is also being adopted quickly by other disk makers.

The Momentus 5400.3 drive is, as its name suggests, a 5,400 rpm drive.

The version shipping now has an Ultra ATA/100 interface. A second version with a faster Serial ATA interface will be available later this year, Seagate said. Seagate did not give a price for either drive.