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Good things are in store
After years of mostly missing the mark, storage vendors are delivering a brandnew kind of product that is finally delivering the goods for storagearea networks. These socalled SAN appliances are designed to solve the toughest problem that agencies face when building SANs making storage devices and servers from different vendors work together.
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Microsoft shifts gears
Next month when manufacturers begin to sell powerful PC servers to run the new Windows 2000 Datacenter Server software, the event will mark a significant shift in the way Microsoft Corp. sells and supports its most sophisticated operating system.
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Waiting on 64 bit
With the news that Intel Corp.'s nextgeneration Itanium chip will ship to manufacturers a quarter later than expected, federal IT shops will have to wait at least until early next year to get their hands on workstations and servers powered by the new 64bit microprocessor.
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Why 64-bit computing is faster
Computers that use Intel Corp.'s new Itanium microprocessor will be much faster than current PC servers for several reasons, though one of them is not the common misconception that 64-bit chips are twice as fast as 32-bit chips.
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Who's supporting Itanium
The new Itanium-based computers will only run operating systems that were specifically written for the 64-bit architecture. However, the systems will be backward-compatible to run current 32-bit software applications.
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XML editor strengthened
SoftQuad Software Inc. last week introduced a new version of its popular XMetaL software that agencies can use to create content based on Extensible Markup Language (XML).
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Oracle makes grand play for data
Building its case for giving database software a new role in desktop and server computing ? at the expense of the traditional operating system ? Oracle Corp. took the wraps off its new Internet File System (iFS) last month.
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Software AG debuts XML database
A newcomer to the federal market, German company Software AG is hoping to gain mindshare quickly by offering a new product designed to grease the gears of government ecommerce projects
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Tivoli smoothes file sharing
Aiming to help federal agencies get the most out of the storagearea networks (SAN) they build, Tivoli Systems Inc. announced availability of its SANergy File Sharing 2.1 software. SANergy enables the sharing of application and other types of files among heterogeneous servers and workstations connected to a SAN.
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ADIC fuses disk and tape
One of the downsides of using storage devices that attach directly to a network is that the data typically resides on one of the most expensive types of storage media: magnetic disk.
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ADIC fuses disk and tape
One of the downsides of using storage devices that attach directly to a network is that the data typically resides on one of the most expensive types of storage media: magnetic disk. Advanced Digital Information Corp. last week introduced a networkattached storage (NAS) appliance that tries to mitigate that cost issue with a system that combines disk storage with a lowcost tape library system.
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Rentable apps provider makes GSA schedule
Application service provider USinternetworking Inc. (USi) last week became one of the first companies to be awarded a General Services Administration schedule contract for enterprise application hosting and management services.
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HP storage devices offer relief
HewlettPackard Co.'s new NetStorage 6000 is designed to tackle two of the toughest issues facing federal IT managers: uncontrolled data growth and mixed computing environments.
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Red Hat debuts more scalable Linux
ERDAS Inc. has had its ERDAS IMAGINE 8.4 geographic information system certified to run on Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 2000 operating system.
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