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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Dell PowerVault MD3000i Normally all youll see of Dells PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI SAN (storage area network) device is this plain front that looks like all of the other Dell rack mount equipment youve seen. Photo: Dell eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Dell PowerVault MD3000i – The Dell iSCSI SAN as We Saw It When […]

Things certainly have changed since we announced the winners of the first eWEEK Excellence Awards seven years ago. The challenges and problems facing IT today require new capabilities and greater integration functionality than was the case in 2000. /zimages/6/28571.gifThe Boys & Girls Clubs are winners, too. Click here to read why. Back then, companies felt […]

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Asterisk Open-source development is vigorously pushing the VOIP (voice over IP) industry forward-championing standards-based communications, driving rapid development of new features and enabling new ideas for how to use real-time communications. As the best-known and most popular open-source telephony platform out there, Asterisk gets my nod for 2006 product of the year. Numerous vendors now […]

Patent Madness As we bid 2006 goodbye, I’m wishing we could also wave away at least some of the software patent absurdity that filled the year. From the NTP vs. Research In Motion wars that raged in January to the patent FUD-mongering surrounding Microsoft’s and Novell’s late-year collaboration agreement-and all of the billable hours in […]

eWEEK Labs: Victor Loh’s Top Five Storage Developments of the Year Winner of an eWEEK Excellence Award in the category of Networking Infrastructure, Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances hit all the marks a WAN optimization product should, offering best-in-class bandwidth optimization through highly intelligent data cachi eWEEK Labs: Victor Loh`s Top Five Storage Developments of the Year […]

The article “25 More Top Technologies” refers to CP/M and QDOS as “the spiritual and the actual parents, respectively, of what became MS-DOS” [Sept. 18]. Its sad to see CP/M, the operating system that helped establish the largest part of the PC market before the IBM PC, given the same status as QDOS, a functional […]

When eWeek Labs named 25 products as the most influential of the 25-year era of the PC (see “25 products define 25 years of personal computing” at eweek.com), we had regrets about important innovations that didnt make the 25-year cut or that didnt muster Top 25 scores in our rankings. Readers were even more vehement […]

To celebrate the 25th birthday of the IBM PC coming in August, eWEEK Labs considered assembling a Top 10 list of the most influential products that iconic machine ushered in. But we couldnt do it: A list that short omitted far too many innovations with far too great an impact to be ignored. Having agreed […]

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program focuses on tasks rather than technologies. Were not identifying the word processor of the year or the desktop database of the year. Rather, were looking from the top to the bottom of the enterprise IT stack and asking where innovation is focused in any year at every tier. That question […]