Sharon Linsenbach

About

Sharon Linsenbach is a staff writer for eWEEK and eWEEK Channel Insider. Prior to joining Ziff Davis, Sharon was Assistant Managing Editor for CRN, a weekly magazine for PC and technology resellers. Before joining CRN, Sharon was an Acquisitions Editor for The Coriolis Group and later, Editorial Director with Paraglyph Press, both in Scottsdale, AZ.

Citrix Adds Web 2.0 Push to NetScaler Product Line – 1

Citrix’s new Web 2.0 Push technology aims to combat server overload and sprawl caused by Web 2.0 applications by offloading Web 2.0 workloads, thereby freeing up bandwidth for line-of-business applications and improving performance and utilization rates.Web 2.0 Push will debut as an integrated feature in Citrix’s flagship NetScaler product line, says Greg Smith, director of […]

EMC Unveils New Storage Architecture

EMC’s new Symmetrix V-Max and V-Max SE storage arrays are based on a Virtual Matrix Architecture that EMC said can scale up to hundreds of thousands of terabytes of storage, and is capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of virtual machines. V-Max and V-Max SE are designed for large enterprise data centers and server virtualization […]

Google Launches New Java Development Tools

If you attended President Obama’s March 26 online Town Hall meeting, you were likely more interested in how the president would answer questions about the economy, health care and higher education costs. But what you might not have noticed was that the White House was using an application called Google Moderator, hosted on the application […]

Data Robotics Device Automates Data Storage for Small Business

DroboPro offers more drives, capacity and versatility than the original storage device, says Jillian Mansolf, senior vice president of Data Robotics. The new eight-drive system connects to a Mac or a PC via USB 2.0, FireWire 800 and now iSCSI, and includes business-class features such as dual-disk redundancy, “smart” expanding volumes, and new triple interface […]

Microsoft Extends Windows XP Support, Again

In the memo, Microsoft says it will continue support for Windows XP beyond its latest retirement date of May 30, 2009. Unconfirmed rumors are also circulating that Microsoft will allow Hewlett-Packard to continue shipping computers with Windows XP until April 30, 2010. If that’s true, it’s likely that Microsoft will let other PC vendors do […]

Asigra Advises Startups on Storage, Backup Pitfalls

Backup and storage vendor Asigra has been a player in the midmarket and enterprise online backup market for more than 15 years, and it has some advice for neophytes and startup vendors-be flexible, embrace vendor neutrality, avoid proprietary solutions and, above all, don’t underestimate the power of the channel. “We’ve been doing this for quite […]

Dell Enhances EqualLogic Storage Line

As new competition emerges from Cisco Systems’ new virtualized first blade servers, Dell announces enhancements to its EqualLogic line aimed at easing consolidation of storage, servers and network services into one architecture that’s further optimized to allow for virtualization. Data center technologies including virtualization and storage solutions continue to be a bright spot in an […]

GE Wants FCC to Guard Wireless Telemetry Spectrum

Patient safety could be at risk unless GE Healthcare and other IT heavyweights persuade the Federal Communications Commission to protect the wireless medical telemetry channel from possible interference. When cable converts to a digital signal in 2009, wireless frequencies called “white spaces” will become available, including channels 36 and 38, which are adjacent to the […]

Microsoft’s Patient Plans

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-Microsoft’s doing all it can to empower consumers to find, analyze, manage and securely share their own personal health information in the name of greater knowledge and, ultimately, better health, the company says. Steve Aylward, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Industry general manager, told attendees at Microsoft’s Health & Life Sciences Developer and […]

Hospitals Struggle With Access Control

Despite increased awareness of access control issues, healthcare providers continue to struggle with security and compliance related to user access, according to the results of a survey conducted at the Health Information Management and Systems Society 2008 conference in February. The survey, conducted by enterprise provisioning and access control software vendor Courion at the show […]