IT hardware

Fast Guide: iSCSI

If you need to come up to speed rapidly on iSCSI, you've come to the right place. In this Fast Guide, we touch upon the basics and then we walk you through the pros and cons of iSCSI and Fibre Channel. Continue Reading

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• Jen Hubley, Associate Editor, SearchStorage.com

Five steps to using the Kerberos protocol

This excerpt from "Windows Server 2003 security infrastructures" explains the basic Kerberos protocol as it is defined in RFC 1510. Continue Reading

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• Jan De Clercq

Storage Management Survival School: Lesson five

In this session, Jamie Gruener examines the steps you should consider in designing a tiered storage model, what the pitfalls are and the overall benefits. Continue Reading

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• Mark Lewis

Apple's SAN file system turns heads

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• Jo Maitland, TechTarget

Deals abound for high-end storage

Think high-end storage is out of your reach? Maybe not. Conversations with several storage buyers recently suggest that vendors are scrambling to give buyers the best possible deals. Continue Reading

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• Alex Barrett, Trends Editor

LAN-free, serverless and domino backups, oh my.

In case you've missed anything, here's a roundup of some of the best original technical content that appeared on SearchStorage.com the week of May 10-14. Tips and Ask the Experts Q&A's cover LAN-free, serverless and domino backups.

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• SearchStorage.com

Backup school: Quiz two, answer six

Here is the answer to Backup school quiz two, question six. Continue Reading

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• Editors

Seagate touts SAS drives as faster alternative to SATA

Seagate is set to demonstrate a 2.5-inch hard drive based on the serial-attached SCSI interface. The company says the product will fill the need for a smaller, faster and more reliable alternative to serial ATA disks. Continue Reading

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• Kevin Komiega

More questions and answers from SAN School lesson # 5

Here are additional questions and answers from SAN School Lesson 5: Designing a SAN. The questions cover topics ranging from how to determine an effective SAN design to meet your needs, to the differences between fabric switches and loop switches. Continue Reading

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• SearchStorage.com editors

More questions and answers from SAN school lesson # 8

Here are SAN School Professor Chris Poelker's answers to more user submitted questions from SAN School Lesson 8, "Tying your SANs together." Q&A's cover topics ranging from what causes SAN problems, to preventing equipment problems. Continue Reading

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• SearchStorage.com Staff

Resource guide to disk-based backup

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Learning Guide: SAN-based backups

Some of the best advice on the ins and outs of SAN-based backups Continue Reading

IT directors foresee technology revolution continuing in comms

There are those who hold that the IT revolution has petered out with no more breakthroughs to come. But IT directors attending... Continue Reading

A beginners guide to iSCSI

After five years of working with Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), I have personally been quite confused about iSCSI, about exactly what it really does and more importantly how it works and how we can actually use it to solve real customer problems. So here, after a busy few months talking to a lot of people on the subject, are a few of my own views. Continue Reading

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• Simon Gordon

Chinook parents set to appeal to Europe

The parents of the two Chinook helicopter pilots labelled guilty of gross negligence over the Mull of Kintyre disaster are... Continue Reading

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• Parliamentary reporter

Government blocks judicial review of Chinook disaster

The Government has made it impossible for the families of two pilots blamed for the crash of Chinook helicopter ZD576 to seek a... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

MoD refuses to concede error in Chinook verdict

The Ministry of Defence (MoD), citing a new series of simulations by Boeing, has refused to clear the names of two pilots blamed... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Minister slams Chinook campaign in debate

In the week when he sent 1,700 troops to Afghanistan, defence secretary Geoff Hoon issued a blistering criticism of Computer... Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Lords Chinook challenge

The Government expects to have a debate in the House of Lords on last week's select committee report on the fatal crash of... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Boeing simulation ignored Chinook's Fadec system

A House of Lords committee investigating the crash of Chinook ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre has found that a Boeing simulation of... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Chinook pilots may have been unable to slow down, squadron leader tells Lords

The pilots of Chinook ZD576, which crashed in Scotland in 1994, may have been unable to slow down as they approached the Mull of... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

What's in a name?

As soon as you hear an analyst, consultant, academic or supplier pontificating to an audience of Brits about CIOs, you know... Continue Reading

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• John Riley

Dell offers new Latitude to mobile users

PC maker Dell is offering a new Latitude C610 notebook PC with extended battery life of up to eight hours. Continue Reading

Intel launches new mobile processors

Intel has launched 12 new mobile processors, ranging from its fastest mobile chip yet to the first .13 micron version of its... Continue Reading

Tablet PC enters mass production

First International Computer (FIC) is on the verge of beginning mass production of a tablet PC based on Transmeta's Crusoe... Continue Reading

Intel cancels 2GHz Xeon

Intel has decided not to launch the expected 2GHz version of its Xeon processor for dual-processor servers this year, opting to... Continue Reading

AMD to put Palomino on desktop

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is set to launch its first desktop processor based on the Palomino core. Continue Reading

IBM unveils its "fastest ever" Unix server

IBM has used its Web site to provide details of a new Unix server, touting the processors in the pSeries 660 6M1 as the company's... Continue Reading

Let computers make the decisions

Intel is working on ways to enable computers to anticipate user needs and act on their behalf - a move that could help companies... Continue Reading

Arapahoe gains support from heavyweights

A new PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) interface called Arapahoe gained momentum on 29 August as 22 industry-leading... Continue Reading

Slow market spells trouble for Sun

Sun Microsystems warned that slow order rates for the company's hardware, particularly in Europe and Japan, will make it tough... Continue Reading

HP gambles on Itanium

A top Hewlett-Packard executive has signalled his company's commitment to Intel Itanium processor in perhaps the strongest terms... Continue Reading

Intel to reveal 2GHz Xeon chip

Intel plans to show off its fastest processor to date for workstations and servers at the Siggraph 2001 computer graphics trade... Continue Reading

Full blown Location Based Services rolled out to mass market

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• Will Garside

Government funds online access to bridge digital divide

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• Chris Mugan

Finding the right Web recipe

Take two companies with the necessary ingredients. How do you make them gel? Stir in a project manager Continue Reading

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• Roisin Woolnough

Grpup-buying sites prove unpopular

Group buying sites seemed like a good idea, but failed to attract much attention. Sun and Microsoft's sites, on the other hand,... Continue Reading

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• Glyn Moody

Going going gone - one top end server

A top-end Unix server is not the kind of thing you would normally expect to buy at an auction. But technology marts, pioneered by Sun Microsystems, are now... Continue Reading

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• Nicholas Enticknap

Lost stock and stolen barrels

Intelligent radio tagging keeps track of assets and helps streamline business. Bill Goodwin reports Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

CW briefs Lords on fatal Chinook crash

Tony Collins

Members of the House of Lords have been briefed by Computer Weekly on computer and other problems that afflicted...

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• Tony Collins

Future mobile

Antony Savvas explores the future mobile network Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

Parliament push to clear Chinook pilots

Tony Collins

Senior MPs and Lords, including a raft of former ministers, decided last week to form a cross-party action group in a bid to...

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• Tony Collins

Servers developments under the spotlight

IBM claims a 20%-30% efficiency improvement with its latest processor technology compared with existing chips. The silicon-on-insulator technology uses a glass... Continue Reading

What we can all learn from Linux

At first sight it may not be entirely clear what the stock market listing of VA Linux in December last year has to do with e-business and technology. But... Continue Reading

Case Study: ProLiant servers by Compaq

Building a gas pipeline connecting Britain and the continent proved to be an enormous task, but it’s proved to be a project built... Continue Reading

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• Ian Burley