Henry Baltazar

At long last, Intel has released its long-awaited itanium 64-bit processor to the masses. The major questions that remain are where—and even whether—the Itanium fits into todays corporate networks. Based on briefings I have had with Intel and its OEMs, the positioning of the Itanium is an extremely sensitive issue for them. Over the next […]

Nishan Systems Inc.s IPS 3000 Switch bridges the gap between Fibre Channel SANs and Gigabit Ethernet networks, helping to pave the way for the long-awaited convergence of storage and IP networking. The state of standards for storage over IP is in flux (see related Tech Analysis at www.eweek.com/links), so, for now, it will be difficult […]

EarthLink has added wireless networking to its extensive line of broadband services. Starting in April, it began offering subscribers the necessary hardware from 2Wire Inc. Using 2Wires HomePortal 100 and 1000 residential gateways, EarthLink subscribers can have 802.11b wireless capabilities integrated into their broadband gateways, which will make it much easier to implement wireless access […]

The jury is still out on whether knowledge management is ready for prime time, but many forget that the success of these systems depends more on human management than on any technological aspect. Over the last few months, the need for effective knowledge management has been greatly magnified in the face of massive layoffs. From […]

Part portal, part document manager and yet another part search engine, Microsoft Corp.s SharePoint Portal Server (released to manufacturers late last month), the companys first venture into the knowledge management space, has no shortage of features. Considering that SharePoint is still in its infancy and given the current amorphous state of knowledge management, we can […]

iSCSI, the IP networking community?s answer to Fibre Channel for storage networking, will be an important protocol for IT managers to learn and implement when it is ratified next month. However, at least in the short term, eWeek Labs believes it won?t be a Fibre Channel killer. In fact, IP over SCSI, which can link […]

Over the past few years, there has been an explosion of innovation in data storage. Although this new world of choices will eventually pay off in much higher capacity and better performance, the long learning curves of these new technologies, coupled with the scary consequences of betting on the wrong technology, are keeping many IT […]

Not content to sit on its laurels, Emulex Corp., which already owns a substantial portion of the Fibre Channel host bus adapter market, is ready to dive into IP storage networking waters. Its first iSCSI adapter, which was announced last month, will be available by the end of the year. Emulexs recent acquisition of Giganet […]

IT managers shopping for storage in todays market will find more options and vendors than ever before, but are there too many choices?In the enterprise-class storage networking world, a battle is already raging between NAS (network-attached storage) and SAN (storage area network) vendors. Things will get even more confused in the near future when companies […]

Infiniband vendors were out in full force at the Intel Developer Forum Conference earlier this month, looking to attract the attention of software developers. InfiniBand, the next-generation I/O architecture whose initial 1.0 release was made available last October, probably wont hit the market until the fourth quarter of this year, but protocol analyzers from Agilent […]