Storage specialist Quantum has released a line of products it claims will revolutionise fail-safe back-up systems by putting data onto disks, not tape. Richard Collins, managing director for Quantum EMEA, said the new product was all about reducing...
HP said it will no longer be using StorageTek's disk arrays or libraries despite a years-long OEM agreement with the vendor, but will instead be using Quantum. Compaq and Quantum have had a long-standing partnership which has seen Quantum's...
A $4.6m NEC server using Microsoft Windows has grabbed high marks in a closely watched performance ranking traditionally dominated by machines running the Unix operating system. The fifth-place ranking on the Transaction Performance Council's TPC-C...
We also must improve business consistency," he said "Customers love predictability, and rightly so. Microsoft has not yet announced a definite schedule for delivering Longhorn, and Ballmer vowed that "we will do the work and take the time required...
Chris Robinson, European IT partner at property consultancy Davis Langdon, said his firm plans to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 sometime in the next 12 months. Half of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they plan to move to...
Amazon said on Wednesday that it plans to offer its cloud computing customers the option of running Microsoft's Windows Server operating system as well as its SQL Server database. Starting sometime this autumn, Amazon said customers of its EC2...