Henry Baltazar

At first glance, it would be easy to label NetApp as an iron-pumping hardware vendor, given that its meat-and-potatoes products are shiny Filer network-attached-storage units, which can be found in data centers around the world. Looking under that iron, however, we find that the major thing that separates the company from the pack is the […]

On Feb. 12, the SANS Institute warned thousands of security professionals around the globe that a major SNMP vulnerability had been discovered. Five months ago, SANS reissued a warning related to SNMP, and the vulnerability that was uncovered wound up being even worse than expected. For those of you who havent done this already, its […]

Knowledge management systems have the potential to become the most important means of information dissemination to hit the enterprise since e-mail, but product weaknesses and thorny political issues remain major barriers to successful deployments. In this installment of IT Agenda, eWeek Labs describes the current state of KM and discusses how IT managers can overcome […]

NEC Minimizes Downtime With the release of the NEC Express5800/ft 320La, the first offering in NEC Corp.s Express5800 server line, the company is giving its customers the power of high availability for Windows 2000 Advanced Servers in a single server chassis. In eWeek Labs tests, the NEC Express5800/ft 320La server—which is really two servers in […]

Stratus Technologies is taking an extremely bold step by offering an impressive 100 percent uptime guarantee on its new ftServer line of Windows 2000 servers. This marks the first time IT managers will be able to purchase entry- to midlevel Windows 2000 servers with an uptime guarantee. Current guarantee packages (such as the ones offered […]

NetIqs Directory Security Administrator 1.0 simplifies management tasks associated with Microsofts Active Directory. In tests, I was impressed with the seamless manner in which Directory Security Administrator snapped into the Active Directory management tool. The Directory Security Administrator Search utility is a handy tool that allowed me to search a domain for rogue accounts with […]

Beta 2 of Sun Microsystems Inc.s Solaris 9 operating system adds significant security and management capabilities and is shaping up to be a solid improvement over Solaris 8. Solaris 9, due for release in the second half, boosts security with the addition of Solaris Secure Shell, which supports the SSH1 and SSH2 protocols. This will […]

With the alarming number of attacks on windows-based software in the last few years and the general disdain for cumbersome Windows features such as Windows Product Activation, the need for an alternative to Windows is at an all-time high. However, although the quality of alternatives to Windows-based desktops has improved astronomically in the last few […]

In the end, the fate of businesses rests on data. More important than the processing of new data or its movement through the network is the task of keeping data available and uncorrupted. There are vast differences in cost and technology among data protection solutions, but each of them makes some trade-off between resource costs—the […]

The capability gap between SAN and NAS gets smaller as each technology continues to evolve. At first glance, this convergence might look as if it will leave IT managers with difficult long-term decisions about where they should store their data. eWeek Labs continuing analysis of storage area network and network-attached storage products and standards leads […]