Yet even here, concerns over cost of ownership, constant upgrades and difficult administration have caused uneasiness. The research suggested that employment agencies should use a standard method of judging candidates.
Amdahl also unveiled its StorStream offering, aimed at media companies requiring load balancing as well as storage space. According to Amdahl, its GSS4900 general purpose storage system is the most powerful and largest product of its type on the...
To create the Symmetrix DMX system, EMC redesigned its hardware, adopting a new method of connecting its internal components. The DMX800 will be rack-mountable and offer from one terabyte to just over 15 terabytes of usable space for data.
The upgrade turned out to be more complicated than originally anticipated, Payea said, requiring Lycos to rebuild the database. Lycos offers a free webmail service, plus a subscription service that offers more storage space along with access...
Regardless, given Oracle's share of the database software market — nearly 50 percent, according to Gartner — even a relatively low percentage of upgrades represents big money. One feature is compression of all data so that it takes less storage space.
Collins pointed out that Nortel has in the past been burned through its heavy investment in 3G — it sold its 3G basestation business to Alcatel-Lucent last year because "usage of networks was not coming to the level where they were requiring...