Computer Technology Review articles from July - September 2001

Computer Technology Review archives from July - September 2001

Buyers Waiting For PC Functional Improvements, Not For More Speed.(IDC revised its U.S. PC shipment forecast for 2001)(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... Wireless, tablets, pocket PCs can all be winners. Confirming what many observers had been suspecting for months, a recent research report indicates that, for the first time in the history of the personal computer, unit shipments in the U.S....

Getting From Vendor-Centric To Data-Centric Challenges SANs.(Technology Information)
July 1, 2001... IP storage will play critical role Are you still confused about where and when to actually deploy SANs (Storage Area Networks) and NAS (Network Attached Storage) technologies? You are not alone and by the time everyone gets on the same page...

Multi-Homing Provides As Many Internet Routes As You Have ISPs.(Technology Information)
July 1, 2001... This article is the second in a two-part series. Multi-homing connects a site to the Internet through more than one link, whether an Ethernet, T-1, T-3, or other pipe. Sites choose multiple connections for three basic reasons: redundancy,...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2001... The following letters represent the views of the individuals writing them and not necessarily the companies they represent. No Quick Fixes Hal Glatzer's reader response ("CTR Renders the Whole Storage Picture," page 6, April 2001) was...

Can M-Services Co Right Where WAP Went Wrong?(Technology Information)
July 1, 2001... As anyone who regularly reads my features can attest, I have never been a huge fan of WAP. Now, apparently, the mobile phone industry is attempting to solve some of WAP's longstanding problems. In an effort to avoid the technical and...

Size Matters, Again.(DataPlay CD-R drive; Iomega PocketZip)(Product Information)
July 1, 2001... The next big thing--make that the next small thing--in data storage was talked about at PC Expo in June, but what was shown was only a mockup: the product itself wasn't ready for prime time. I'll go so far as to say that if it does hit its...

Gearing Up For Wireless Networking.(Multimedia Wireless Home Network from Netgear Inc)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... NETGEAR Inc., a provider of small business and home networking products, announced the availability of its first product family in a new generation of multimedia entertainment networking products. The Multimedia Wireless Home Network provides...

Getting [Virtual] Religion.(Mark Ferelli, Hal Glatzer discuss storage technology issues)(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... Mark Ferelli Hal Glatzer MARK: In the mass-storage universe, nowadays, there are two magic words to conjure with: storage networking and storage virtualization. HAL: Where's the magic in storage networking? I met the InfiniBand...

Using Console Server Technology In Server Farm Environments.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... The distributed computing environment has been essential to handling the rapidly escalating demand for process-intensive, 24/7 computing resources. Telecom, ISPs, ASPs, and Web-hosting services and other processing-hungry operations are all...

Enabling Technology For The Data Center OF The Future: DAFS And The InfiniBand Architecture.(Technology Information)
July 1, 2001... I/O is the lifeblood of computing. You can execute all the compute cycles you like, but if you can't get the relevant information into and out of the processor and to the end user on a timely basis, what's the point? This has always been true,...

Peaceful Coexistence Of Fibre Channel And IP Storage.(Technology Information)
July 1, 2001... Fibre Channel and IP Storage SANs will coexist because they have different strengths and are suited for different applications and markets. Fibre Channel will continue to be a good SAN solution in enterprise data centers. IP Storage, with a...

Changing Technology Requires A New Look At Enterprise Email Management.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... This article is the second in a two-part series. The first part appeared in the June issue of CTR. Critical information is routinely destroyed or lost among the mountains of deleted or lost messages. As a result, organizations now face a...

Ecrix VXA-1 Supports IEEE 1394/FireWire Interface For PC.(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Ecrix announced availability of the IEEE 1394 interface, also known as FireWire or i.LINK, for the Ecrix VXA-1 tape drive on the PC platform. The VXA-1 is the first tape drive to support FireWire/IEEE 1394/i.LINK interfaces on Intel-x86...

LSI Logic Qualifies Volume Replicator For Data Mirroring Over IP.(VERITAS Volume Replicator, LSI Logic MetaStor E-Series storage arrays)(Product Information)
July 1, 2001... LSI Logic Storage Systems, a supplier of storage solutions for the open enterprise, announced that VERITAS Volume Replicator has been qualified to provide comprehensive replication services for the LSI Logic MetaStor E-Series storage arrays....

"Quantum" Leap Into SDLT Technology.(StorageTek L700 and L180 tape libraries)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Quantum's DLTtape Group announced that StorageTek is shipping its L-Series Libraries with Super DLTtape technology. The L-Series L700 and L180 Libraries are among the highest capacity libraries offered by StorageTek. The storage solution...

Linux-Optimized Tape Backup.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... Despite its humble beginnings, Linux acceptance has grown to include the support of traditional and new computer hardware vendors alike. Linux environments have boldly moved into the enterprise class data center as a platform for mission...

Web Warps Techniques And Technology For Continuous Off-site Data Protection.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 1, 2001... Historically, users of corporate information were co-located with most of the data they needed, which was necessary to get the needed level of performance at an acceptable cost. A major disaster hitting that data generally also impacted the...

Ask THE SCSI EXPERT.(Questions and Answers)
July 1, 2001... Visit the SCSI Trade Association's web site (www.scsita.org) to ask the SCSI Expert a question. Q: What are the specifications related to LVD? Where can I obtain all information on the LVD SCSI specifications? A: The, specifications...

The Day The Customer Came First.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 1, 2001... Every month, I look at some aspect of the mass storage industry. It is the most competitive industry that you could ever imagine. Many of the companies are like professional beauties in a beauty pageant, with figurative knives in each other's...

Raidtec CEO Noel May On State-of-the-Art RAID.(Company Operations)
July 1, 2001... In an effort to identify the technical and business direction of RAID technology, CTR recently interviewed Noel May, the founder of Raidtec. He has a broad background in the international computer industry including founding and operating his...