Henry Baltazar

Microsofts settlement of a State of California class-action lawsuit ruffled quite a few feathers, but it probably will not lead to a better competitive balance in the industry. As part of the $1.1 billion settlement announced last week, vouchers will be available to customers who purchased Microsoft software between 1995 and 2001. The vouchers range […]

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Beta 2, the first public beta release of Microsoft Corp.s enterprise messaging platform, shows incremental, but useful, improvements over its predecessor, Exchange 2000. Exchange 2000 introduced AD (Active Directory), which requires customers upgrading from 5.5 to 2000 to change their entire messaging architecture. Exchange Server 2003 also uses AD, so a […]

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Beta 2, the first public beta release of Microsoft Corp.s enterprise messaging platform, shows incremental, but useful, improvements over its predecessor, Exchange 2000. Exchange 2000 introduced AD (Active Directory), therefore upgrading from 5.5 to 2000 required customers to change their entire messaging architecture. Exchange Server 2003 also uses AD, so a […]

Is there a more interesting way to start out the New Year than ramping up for a tape drive test-drive? I can think of a couple dozen other things I could do with my lab time, but the fact of the matter is tape is still an important technology, one that almost all organizations still […]

ATA-class products, traditionally confined to workstations and desktops, will likely break out of these realms next year, when Serial ATA products with simplified cabling and expanded capabilities hit the market. However, although most IT managers are looking forward to the release of Serial ATA products, the upcoming Serial SCSI protocol will bring similar benefits and […]

Although Microsoft Corp. doesnt anoint Windows .Net Server 2003 Release Candidate 2 as “feature-complete,” this edition shows that Microsofts next operating system revision will be a significant, incremental upgrade compared with the massive overhaul that took place going from Windows NT to Windows 2000. Some of the most important benefits of Windows .Net Server 2003 […]

The most pressing challenge for IBMs Lotus Software division isnt what product it should build next but how to make the products it has work together in the future. Domino has long been the core of Lotus product offerings, and, based on eWeek Labs tests of a number of new Lotus offerings, Domino will continue […]

Last week, two technology demonstrations provided a glimpse of the incredible storage networking power that will soon be available in the future. IT managers who made the trip to Baltimore for Supercomputing 2002 instead of journeying to the bright lights of Comdex Las Vegas were rewarded with demos by SGI and StorageTek that pushed the […]

One of the hottest topics in the storage market today is the rapidly expanding role of ATA hard drive products in the enterprise. Significant improvements in ATA, coupled with the disk drive implementations ability to provide impressive storage densities at bargain prices, has made ATA-based products a potential contender to tape-based backup devices. ATA-based backup […]

Storage consolidation has been an important goal for IT managers during the last few years. Although enormous strides have been made on the hardware side of the house in terms of interoperability, the software components of storage management (virtualization/provisioning, SRM and so on) have been distinct entities until now. eWeek Labs recently spent some time […]