Henry Baltazar

In 2002, 10 Gigabit Ethernet will be an important networking protocol for IT managers to follow, but on the enterprise front, there are only a few business cases ready for early adoption of this upcoming networking standard. The key markets that are targeted by 10 Gigabit Ethernet vendors range from SANs (storage area networks) to […]

Netware 6 builds on Novell Inc.s file and print services strength and enhances it with innovative Web tools. The bigger story, however, will be whether NetWare 6, which began shipping last month, is the technology that marks the turning point in Novells transition from a market-share-losing network operating system vendor to a formidable customized solutions […]

Based on what we have seen in Windows .Net Beta 3, Microsoft is trying to make its flagship operating system more secure, but it needs to make more changes. Fundamentally, Microsoft may need to sacrifice some usability to get Windows security where it should be. In talks with Microsofts IIS team, we learned that they […]

For the most part, the deployment of ATA RAID units has been limited to the realm of overclockers and small businesses with extremely low budgets, but times are changing. With shrinking IT budgets and with advances in inexpensive Advanced Technology Attachment drive technology, ATA RAID devices enterprise time may be coming. (ATA is the connector […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. makes a major play for the midrange server market with this weeks announcement of the Sun Fire V880 server. eWeek Labs exclusive tests of the server show that it will allow IT departments to consolidate multiple applications on a single server at an aggressive price point. The Solaris 8-based Sun Fire V880 […]

Overland Datas libraryXpress LXN2000 unit, with its built-in, 2G-bps Fibre Channel connection, is ready to accommodate the next generation of Fibre Channel storage. The LXN2000, which started shipping in August, has a starting price of $40,850. A linear tape, open version of the LXN2000 is expected in a few months. The LXN2000 library unit can […]

Sporting a high-port-density chassis and supporting the 2G-bps Fibre Channel protocol, QLogic Corp.s SANbox 2 switch is a suitable choice for IT managers looking for a midrange Fibre Channel SAN switch. SANbox 2 is one of the first storage area network switches eWeek Labs has seen that supports the 2G-bps Fibre Channel protocol, but it […]

Despite their blazing speed and backward compatibility, 2G-bps Fibre Channel products are making very little headway in IT departments. There are several reasons for this. For starters, other technologies are now competing for IT mindshare. During the past year, while 2G-bps Fibre Channel was slowly maturing and gaining vendor support, Cisco Systems Inc. and others […]

In performance tests of QLogic Corp.s SANbox 2, eWeek Labs faced an interesting problem: how to test a product that came out before testing-tools vendors had released tools for it. 2G bps is a fairly high-performance rate to drive through a single port, let alone the 15 remaining ones in SANbox 2. In the IP […]

Servers that harness Intel Corp.s Itanium processors started to ship in the past few weeks, and, sooner or later, these servers will be at the core of many of todays enterprise-class applications. For now, however, Itanium servers are still in a “development phase” in which it is difficult to gauge the real-world performance of this […]