eWeek articles from April 2003

eWeek archives from April 2003

AMD, Fujitsu to Form Flash Memory Company.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd., partners in flash memory development since 1993, are combining their respective flash memory businesses to create a new company. In announcing a memorandum of understanding Monday, executives...

Brocade Moves to Ease Storage Management.
April 1, 2003... Storage virtualization may finally have found a home in storage networking switches. The latest offerings of the widely hyped but sparsely implemented technology, which lets users manage disparate storage as a single pool, come as software...

Cisco Advances Switching Technology.
April 1, 2003... Cisco Systems Inc. in an uncharacteristic move Monday advanced ahead of competitors with new interface technology for its flagship Catalyst 6500 line of Layer Three switches. Cisco introduced its third generation of interface modules for...

Samsung to Invest $1 Billion in New LCD Production Line.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... SEOUL, South Korea--Samsung Electronics last week announced that it has started construction on a new $1 billion mass production line for components of thin-film-transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels. The new line in Chonan,...

Korean PC Makers Protest Intel Centrino Tie-Ins.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... SEOUL, South Korea--PC makers here are raising red flags about Intel Corp.'s cooperative sales and marketing program, which they say is growing too focused on Intel's Centrino offering. Intel Centrino, the company's newest offering for...

MarkAny Offers Rights Management Solution for Images.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... SEOUL, South Korea--MarkAny, a South Korean DRM (digital rights management) solution company, announced last week it has developed DRM tools that restrict the copying of images and other content on the Web. Until now, DRM solutions have not...

Group Addresses Web Services Security.
April 1, 2003... The Web Services Interoperability Organization Tuesday announced the formation of its Basic Security Profile Working Group (BSPWG). The group will focus on developing a basic profile for Web services security, much like the WS-I has...

App Server Wars Heat Up.
April 1, 2003... While BEA Systems Inc. announced the availability of the new version of the foundation of its application server platform, Oracle Corp. announced a new application server offering of its own, along with a program aimed directly at BEA's heart....

Tool Automatically Converts SQL Queries.(Vembu Technologies' Vembu SwisSQL API)
April 1, 2003... Startup Vembu Technologies has unveiled an SQL conversion tool that's designed to parse any relational database dialect and automatically convert SQL queries into other SQL dialects. Vembu SwisSQL is an API designed to relieve DBAs...

Symantec Defends BugTraq Policies.
April 1, 2003... Symantec Corp. officials are defending their practices for handling postings to the BugTraq mailing list in the face of criticism from an upstart competitor. The way the list is run and when messages are posted hasn't changed at all since...

April Fool's Pranks Target Security Industry.
April 1, 2003... Several security-related April Fool's Day hoaxes began floating around the Internet Tuesday, several of which ruthlessly satirized the security industry and its denizens. From phony vulnerability advisories warning that the end of the...

Congress Mulls Net Access Tax Ban.
April 1, 2003... A federal moratorium on Internet access taxes expires in November, and advocates of a permanent ban say Internet service providers await a myriad of state and local taxes--and Internet users await rising access costs--if Congress doesn't take...

Documentum Automates Records Management.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Documentum Inc. on Tuesday announced the first release of its records management software product since it bought TrueArc Corp. last November. The new product, Documentum Enterprise Records Management Edition, automates the records...

Mountain View Data Gets New Round of Funding.
April 2, 2003... Mountain View Data Inc., which develops server management and network storage software, on Wednesday will announce that it has secured a new round of funding to be used for research and development as well as marketing. The Hitachi...

IBM Keeps up Tivoli Integration Drumbeat.
April 2, 2003... IBM next week at its Developer Works conference will keep up the Tivoli integration drumbeat with a series of enhancements and a handful of new offerings aimed at advancing IBM's on-demand computing initiative. Among the 18 new or enhanced...

Office 2003 to Come in Six Flavors.(Professional Enterprise, Professional, Standard, Students and Teachers, Small Business, and Basic)
April 2, 2003... Microsoft Corp. unveiled on Wednesday its planned six-SKU lineup for Office 2003. The six editions on tap are Professional Enterprise, Professional, Standard, Students and Teachers, Small Business, and Basic. With Office XP, Microsoft...

NAI Acquires IntruVert for $100 Million.
April 2, 2003... Shaking off its recent accounting woes, Network Associates Inc. on Wednesday paid $100 million in cash to acquire IntruVert Networks, a 2-year-old startup that sells intrusion prevention solutions. IntruVert, based in San Jose, Calif., has...

Mac OS X 'Panther' on Track for September.
April 2, 2003... Now that Apple Computer Inc. has let the cat halfway out of the bag about the next major revision to Mac OS X, sources report that the "Panther" release will reach end users in mid-September. According to sources familiar with the...

Hyperion, SRC Enhance Business Performance Apps.(Hyperion Business Performance Management Suite 3.0 and SCR's Advisor Series FI)
April 2, 2003... Hyperion Solutions Corp. and SRC Software Inc. are both announcing this week new versions of their respective business performance management offerings, with Hyperion also announcing an update to the Essbase XTD platform its applications are...

HP Rolls Out Printers, Services for SMBs.(HP LaserJet 2300 and 1300, reducing rates of some printers as well)
April 2, 2003... Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Imaging and Printing Group on Wednesday introduced new products and services targeted at small and mid-sized businesses. The Palo Alto, Calif., company rolled out two new printers as well as an interactive online...

Dell, Oracle Make Cluster Push.
April 2, 2003... NEW YORK--Clusters of smaller, Intel-based servers will continue to overtake larger proprietary systems over the next few years, eventually becoming the predominant architecture in all aspects of enterprise data centers. That was the...

FileNet Buys Shana for E-Forms Technology.(Brief Article)
April 2, 2003... FileNet Corp. has expanded is enterprise content management offerings with the acquisition of electronic forms software developer Shana Corp., announced Wednesday. The all-cash deal is valued at $8.5 million. Shana, based in Edmonton,...

IT Pros Working Much Harder for Slightly More Pay.(according to Meta Group)(Industry Overview)
April 2, 2003... IT salaries are continuing to climb modestly this year, and most enterprises continue to offer year-end bonuses, according to a newly-released 2003 IT Staffing and Compensation Guide from Meta Group, Inc. Despite the moderately positive...

HPC Blade Systems from Off-the-Shelf Hardware.(from Appro International)
April 2, 2003... Who said you can't use commodity server hardware to build systems that are capable of tackling large-scale computational tasks? Appro International leverages off-the-shelf Intel hardware to build server-blade cluster systems that are designed...

Miramar to Outline Desktop DNA Integration.
April 2, 2003... PC migration provider Miramar Systems Inc. on Monday will outline its efforts to integrate its Desktop DNA tool with major enterprise management frameworks and tools, including IBM's Tivoli Enterprise Console, Computer Associates International...

IT Hiring Remains Flat.(according to Information Technology Association of America)
April 3, 2003... An ongoing sluggish economy and fears over the war in Iraq restrained U.S. IT hiring in the fourth quarter of last year to levels well below those seen in the third quarter, according to a newly released survey commissioned by the Information...

Holographic Storage on the Horizon.
April 3, 2003... System administrators who perform nightly backups to optical or tape libraries may soon need to check their mirrors: a newer medium, holographic storage, is closer than it appears, component vendors say. Holography stores data by using...

Microsoft Moves on VOIP.(Microsoft Windows CE .Net 4.2)
April 3, 2003... Microsoft Corp. yesterday launched its first VOIP (voice-over-IP) support in its Windows CE .Net embedded real-time operating system. Windows CE .Net 4.2, due out by July, focuses on support for VOIP phones or other VOIP devices with three...

Sun vs. Microsoft: Harding vs. Kerrigan Revisited.
April 3, 2003... RICHMOND, Va.--Is Sun Microsystems Inc. really a force in the PC operating system market? That question was the crux of the hearing Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit here. Judge Paul Niemeyer took control...

Lundquist: Welcome to the New Look.
April 3, 2003... March 31, 2003 Dear eWEEK Reader: The April 7 issue of eWEEK will be unlike any eWEEK you've ever seen. But it won't be unlike any eWEEK you've ever read. On April 7 we are unveiling your favorite publication in a newly designed...

RIM Posts a Loss for Fourth Quarter.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2003... BlackBerry device and server company Research In Motion Ltd. reported a fourth-quarter loss on Thursday, but revenues that were significantly higher than the previous year. The Waterloo, Ontario, company reported a loss of $12.6 million, or...

HP Cuts Midrange Server Prices.(Brief Article)
April 3, 2003... Hewlett-Packard Co. is expanding the capacity-on-demand functionality of its midrange Unix servers to include memory and cell boards as well as processors. The announcement Thursday was part of a package of moves--including service...

Worms Wreak Havoc on the Net in '03.(according to Internet Security Systems report)
April 3, 2003... A rash of fast-spreading worms is being blamed for a more than ten-fold increase in the number of security events on the Internet in the first three months of this year. The number of confirmed attacks and incidents was also up 84 percent over...

Database Heavyweights Weigh In on XML Standard.
April 4, 2003... Relational database heavyweights are pushing the XQuery standard for querying XML documents, with IBM and Microsoft Corp. expected to present a test suite for the standard to the W3C on Friday, and Oracle Corp. recently having posted a...

Hyperion Buys Financial Modeling Vendor Alcar.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2003... Hyperion Solutions Corp. made a move Thursday to extend its business performance management technology with the acquisition of financial modeling solution developer The Alcar Group. Terms of the transaction, expected to close in the next...

Tool for Java Developers Eases SAP Integration.(Brief Article)
April 4, 2003... Gamma Enterprise Technologies Inc. has announced the release of its new JSAP development toolkit targeted at Java developers using Borland Software Corp.'s JBuilder integrated development environment and looking to integrate their work with SAP...

Mercury Teams With BEA.
April 4, 2003... Mercury Interactive on Monday will announce the latest in a string of partnerships it's created with large application providers and server vendors. The application performance testing, tuning and monitoring provider teamed up with BEA...

NAI to Buy Entercept for $120 Million.(Network Associates Inc. )(Brief Article)
April 4, 2003... Network Associates Inc. on Friday wrapped up an eventful--and very expensive--week with the announcement that it is buying Entercept Security Technologies Inc. for $120 million in cash. This is the second major acquisition in three days for...

Glum? Here Are a Few IT Bright Spots.(Gartner ITXPO 2003 conference)(Industry Overview)
April 4, 2003... With the war on Iraq and the sluggish economy keeping IT budgets low, and SARS potentially hampering production of hardware in Asia, it may seem as if there's little to be excited about in IT these days. And it seems as if the bad news just...

BEA Defends Its Turf.
April 4, 2003... BEA Systems Inc. came out swinging on Friday after a week of taking hits from competitors claiming their technology is better for BEA customers than BEA's own. BEA defended its position in the Java application server market, saying the...

Storage Startup Intransa to Make Debut.(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
April 4, 2003... The latest storage startup, Intransa Inc., will launch next week with a distributed approach to merging IP networking and scalability. By separating array components across an Ethernet network, users can scale drives and controllers...

eWEEK's Third Annual Excellence Awards.
April 6, 2003... eWeek eXcellence Awards Pricing Chart BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Category Product Vendor Pricing (as provided in Excellence Award entry) Analytics & Reporting Cognos Metrics Manager 1.0 Cognos Inc. Pricing can range between $50,000 to 75,000 for a 100...

Analytics & Reporting.(Guidance Software's Encase Forensic Edition 3.22, Cognos Metrics Manager, Informatica Poweranalyzer 3.5)(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 7, 2003... The past year's lapses in corporate governance give new importance to the category of Analytics & Reporting, in which enterprise architects can hope to find the tools for constructing better decision-making systems. Companies particularly need...

Application & Web Services Development.(IBM's WebSphere Studio 5.0, ARTech's DeKlarit 2.0, iWay Software's iWay Security Exchange)(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 7, 2003... Despite a year of buzz and hoopla surrounding Web services technologies, the challenges of application development are still the biggest source of friction in the gears of enterprise IT. The finalists and winner in this category illuminate the...

Customer & Supplier Management.(Epicor Software's Clientele Self-Service Portal 8.0, Salesforce.com, MySAP Supplier Relationship Management 2.0)(Information Service Review)(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 7, 2003... When the economy started heading south, vendors of CRM (customer relationship management) and SRM (supplier relationship management) products began to focus. Whereas the vendors once attempted to inflict stringent business processes on...

Document & Content Management.(Documentum 5.0, Context Media Inc.'s Interchange Suite 3.0, Vignette 7.0)(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 7, 2003... Although document and content management applications maintained a high profile last year, the market saw a lot of change, with several mergers and acquisitions among vendors. In large part, this was in answer to enterprises' demand for...

Portals & Knowledge Management.(Recommind's MindServer Product Suite 2.0, Autonomy's CEN (Collaboration and Enterprise Networks), Entopia's Quantum 1.4)(Software Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 7, 2003... Portals and knowledge management systems have proved their worth to enterprises through their ability to find and centralize all the important applications, data stores and knowledge within an organization. The focus of portals and knowledge...

Desktop & Handheld Hardware.(Acer America's TravelMate C100 Tablet PC, Fujitsu PC's LifeBook P2120, Research In Motion's BlackBerry 6710)(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 7, 2003... As in previous years, the desktop & handheld hardware category this time around included a diverse group of product contenders, ranging from low-profile desktop systems and LCD displays to wireless communicators and Tablet PC systems. Mobility...

e-Business Foundations.(IBM's WebSphere Application Server 5.0, Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2002 Enterprise Edition, Oracle9i Database 2.0)(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 7, 2003... The category of e-business foundations includes the building blocks most organizations use as part of their basic IT application infrastructure: application servers and Web services tools, databases, server operating systems, data management...

Enterprise Collaboration & Messaging.(Documentum eRoom 6.0, Advanced Reality's Presence-AR 1.5, Centra Software's Centraone 6.0 Collaboration Suite)(Software Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 7, 2003... This year's crop of entries in the Enterprise Collaboration & Messaging category ranged from groupware servers and spam filters to presentation and collaboration products--from both peer-to-peer and centralized camps. The ability to effect...

Enterprise Storage.(EMC Centera, Network Appliance's NetApp FAS900 Series Storage Appliances, HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 2C12D 2.0)(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 7, 2003... Entries this year covered everything from host bus adapters to storage management software. While last year's finalists and winner were all software tools, hardware products took the top spots in this year's program. WINNER NetApp...

The Program in a Nutshell.(eWEEK Excellence Awards program)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... The eWEEK Excellence Awards program is designed to point readers to the most compelling enterprise products announced in a given calendar year. All the products and services entered into this year's program must have been announced in 2002 and...

IT Quality Assurance Tools.(Ixia's Real World Traffic, Freshwater Software's SiteScope 7.6, NetIQ's Vivinet Assessor 2.0)(Software Review)
April 7, 2003... Effective testing lowers operational costs and raises the stature of IT in the organization. The quality assurance tools that rose to the top of this category will help IT staff implement services that support business objectives while also...

Server Hardware.(Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire 12K, IBM's eServer xSeries 440 )(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 7, 2003... The entries in the server hardware category this year include high-end Unix servers; Intel Corp.-based rack-optimized servers; blade systems; document and print servers; XML accelerators; and keyboard, video and mouse switches. Equal...

Networking & Management Tools.(System Management Arts' InCharge Service Manager 5.0, AirMagnet Handheld 1. and NetIQ AppManager Suite 5.0)
April 7, 2003... Effective networking and management tools reduce costs by quickly identifying and fixing problems. The best part for IT managers is that these products tend to build on their previous successes the longer they are in place. The products that...

Unisys to Beef Up Midrange Servers.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Unisys Corp. is looking to bring its high-end server features into the midrange. The Blue Bell, Pa., company on Monday is launching the first expansion of its ES7000 line of Windows- and Intel-based servers. The ES7000/500 family of...

Airespace Reins in Wireless Networks.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... A silicon valley startup is joining the trend to centralize wireless network intelligence rather than spread it among access points. Airespace Inc., formerly Black Storm Networks Inc., this week will introduce WLAN (wireless LAN) software...

Networking Infrastructure.(Symbol Technologies Inc.'s Symbol Wireless System 1.0, McData Corp.'s Sphereon 4500 and America Power Conversion PowerStruXure)
April 7, 2003... A solid network--one that meets business needs while being manageable, secure and flexible--depends on top-notch infrastructure equipment. The Excellence Awards judges evaluated more than 40 products and services in this category, and the ones...

Authentication & User Management.(Cranite Systems Inc.'s WirelessWall Software Suite 2.0, Novell Nsure Solutions and Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0 )
April 7, 2003... Once, authentication simply meant controlling user access to company networks; then it changed to include resources on Web sites, portals and intranets; now it can include authentication into Web services and wireless networking devices. With...

Enterprise Resource Protection.(Foundstone Inc.'s FoundScan Vulnerability Management System 2.5 , KaVaDo Inc.'s InterDo 2.5 and Okena Inc.'s StormWatch 3.1)
April 7, 2003... Entries in this category are designed to ensure that IT data and computing resources are used only by authorized personnel in approved ways. As in previous years, this was a large category, with almost 100 contenders vying for enterprise IT...

Quark Reveals Features of Mac OS X-Native XPress.
April 7, 2003... Quark Inc. on Thursday took another step toward Mac OS X compatibility for its flagship page-layout application when it unveiled some key features of QuarkXPress 6. However, the Denver company declined to specify a ship date or pricing for...

Siebel Warns of Revenue Shortfall.(Industry Overview)
April 7, 2003... Siebel Systems Inc. issued preliminary first-quarter earnings on Friday, warning that revenues will be lower than anticipated earlier this year, as several large deals failed to close by the end of the quarter. The market-leading CRM...

Databases Ripe for Attacks.
April 7, 2003... The SQL Slammer worm played a major role in a recently reported spike in security incidents during the first three months of 2003. The report, put out by security firm Internet Security Systems Inc., found a 37 percent jump in reported...

Apple Buffs Trio of Pro-Media Apps.(Final Cut Pro 4.0, Sahke 3.0 and DVD Studio Pro 2.0)
April 7, 2003... Apple Computer Inc. kicked off this week's National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas with upgrades to three of its fast-growing roster of professional media-production applications. The company on Sunday took the wraps off...

Altova's XMLspy Simplifies Development.(Altova XMLspy Release 4)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Altova Inc. has announced a new version of its popular XML development tool, adding new features that make it easier for developers to create customized XML content and data editing applications, the company said. The Beverly, Mass.,...

Oracle, Unisys Team on Transportation Security.(contract from Transportation Security Administration)
April 7, 2003... Oracle Corp. and Unisys Corp. have been tapped by a Homeland Security agency to construct a single online spot to report security incidents relating to airlines and other transportation systems and for travelers to check on situations in flux....

A Post-War Network.
April 7, 2003... A California lawmaker wants to make sure American technology is used in the wake of an American victory in Iraq, but his effort to control cellular technology in the Middle East nation is being called ill-advised and self-serving by critics....

Symantec Defends BugTraq.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Symantec Corp. officials are defending their practices for handling postings to the BugTraq mailing list in the face of criticism from an upstart competitor. The way the list is run hasn't changed since Symantec acquired BugTraq's owner,...

Enriching Commerce.(Industry Overview)
April 7, 2003... Web page design has come a long way since the days of Netscape 3.0. But while the Web may look better, few would say it has gotten fundamentally better at displaying information, facilitating customer needs or garnering a strong return on...

SSL Certificate to Secure Online Transactions.
April 7, 2003... Hoping to engender a greater level of trust by consumers in e-commerce Web sites, VeriSign Inc. and nCipher plc. on Monday announced a new hardware-based SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate that the companies say should help protect sites...

Sun's Linux Plan Extends Support.
April 7, 2003... Sun Microsystems Inc., which has tried various strategies for its Solaris and Linux operating systems on x86 hardware, has crafted a plan that calls for expanded support for third-party products. The plan, announced last week, will have Sun...

Court Questions Sun's Java Stance.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Sun Microsystems Inc.'s position as a force in the PC operating system market was in question last week at a hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Judge Paul Niemeyer took control early in the hearing here, in...

Dell, Oracle Push the Clustered Data Center.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Michael Dell and Larry Ellison teamed up last week to pitch a vision for the future of the data center that is built on smaller, standards-based Dell Computer Corp. servers and Oracle Corp. database clustering software. But some enterprise...

Capturing XML Data Streams.(from Ipedo and Ixiasoft)
April 7, 2003... Native XML database developers Ipedo Inc. and Ixiasoft Inc. are readying products that enhance management of XML data. Ipedo next month will make available a data hub that processes XML and non-XML data streamed from Web services, file...

Fujitsu, Edge Put Data in Context.(Edge Dynamics' Business Operations Compliance and Fujitsu Software's Interstage i-Flow 6.0)
April 7, 2003... Fujitsu Software Corp. and Edge Dynamics Inc. are each rolling out software to help businesses put the flood of transactional data surging through their computers in context. Startup Edge Dynamics this week will introduce Business...

Recovery Flight Plan.(Monte Ford of American Airlines)
April 7, 2003... You couldn't blame him if Monte Ford seemed a bit shellshocked. Soon after leaving his CIO post at The Associates First Capital Corp. just over two years ago to take on a new position as senior vice president and CIO at American Airlines Inc.,...

Apps Track Performance.(Hyperion Solutions Corp.'s Business Performance Management Suite 3.0 and SRC Software Inc.'s Advisor Series FI)
April 7, 2003... Hyperion Solutions Corp. and SRC Software Inc. aim to give enterprises a better handle on operations with updates to their respective business performance management software. Hyperion, of Sunnyvale, Calif., last week rolled out Version 3...

Gateway Targets the Enterprise.(Gateway 955 and 975)
April 7, 2003... Gateway Inc. is kicking off a push to win over enterprise customers with the introduction of two new high-density servers this week. The rack-mount servers, the 1U (1.75-inch)-high Gateway 955 and the 2U (3.5-inch)-high Gateway 975, are...

Rally 'Round VOIP.(Nortel Networks creates Enterprise Networks division)
April 7, 2003... Facing a difficult market for networking and telecommunications equipment, Nortel Networks Corp. created a new Enterprise Networks division in October. The purpose: to spearhead Nortel's rebound in selling equipment to large corporations,...

Budget Stays Airborne.(at American Airlines)
April 7, 2003... At the end of last year, as American Airlines Inc. CIO Monte Ford prepared to present his proposal for a flat 2003 budget to the company's board of directors, even some of his top lieutenants feared the worst: hearty laughter from Chairman and...

Portfolio Management Takes Off at American.
April 7, 2003... A decision by American Airlines Inc. IT leaders two years ago to use portfolio management budgeting techniques played a critical role in top management's decision not to cut overall technology spending this year despite very difficult business...

BMC Integrates Remedy, IT Masters Technologies.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... BMC Software Inc. this week will outline details of the next evolution of its product line, dubbed Business Service Management. The plans include weaving technologies acquired with Remedy Corp. and IT Masters International S.A., according to...

Suite Tackles Work Force Issues.(CyberShift Workforce Management Suite)(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... Building on its expertise in automating employee time and attendance reporting, CyberShift Inc. later this month will roll out a suite of applications designed to help companies make better use of their employees' time and skills. ...

Mainframes Readied for Grid.(Brief Article)
April 7, 2003... IBM is bringing new grid computing capabilities to its line of mainframe systems. Grid computing, which traditionally entails the linking of many Intel Corp.-based servers to create a virtual supercomputer with lots of processing power,...