Latest data center news.
Microsoft to reissue Windows 2000 SP4 update, 08/08/05
Microsoft plans to re-release Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 due to several problems users are having with the current version, a company executive confirmed Monday.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080805-microsoft-sp4.html?nl
Bringing LAN-like file delivery to WANs, 08/08/05
WAFS works by reducing the “chattiness” of Microsoft’s CIFS and the Unix/Linux NFS protocols. It also works by decreasing the latency of WAN communications by eliminating much of the round-trip traffic caused by opening and closing files. CIFS and NFS …
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080805-wafs.html?nl
IBM opens up Portal to mainframes, 08/04/05
IBM is looking to broaden the reach of its WebSphere Portal. A recent upgrade made the 4-year-old software available for the first time on IBM’s zSeries mainframe and iSeries midmarket servers, a move IBM hopes will spur customer interest in deploying …
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080405-ibm-portal.html?nl
EMC upgrades Clariion design, 08/03/05
Under pressure from users to boost its midrange hardware performance and functionality, EMC announced Wednesday that it has upgraded the internal architecture of its Clariion arrays, bumping up capacity and adding higher-end functions including data …
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080305-emc-upgrade.html?nl
Newsletter: Standardization: second step to utility, 08/02/05
On the road to a flexible data center, there are four major steps: consolidation, standardization, virtualization and utility. In this article, we will …
http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/datacenter/2005/0801datacenter1.html?nl
