As Intel prepares to deliver its new IA-64 operating environment to computer manufacturers later this year, some observers familiar with the technology wonder if Intel jumped the gun on what the company has called the most significant development since the 486.
Much has changed in the way Ameren Corp. manages data since 1993, when the St. Louis-based electric and natural gas company began installing its current computer network.
While participants at the Intel Developer Forum here were still digesting the details of the company's new Itanium processor, Intel gave a preview into the inner workings of its next high-end processor, code-named McKinley.
REITERATING INTEL Corp.'s role as a building-block supplier for the emerging needs of the Internet economy, Paul Otellini, executive vice president and general manager of Intel architecture business group, today declared a call to action for developers to create applications that move the Internet from a vendor-centric to a customer-centric model on the shoulders of Intel's 32- and 64-bit architecture.
Hoping to cash in on the growing need for enterprise-level storage generated by the rapidly growing e-commerce market, EMC, IBM, and Intel on Tuesday announced here at the Intel Developer Forum an alliance to jointly develop storage solutions. The first products resulting from the alliance are scheduled to be available by next year.
Promising the biggest year ever for Intel processors, Intel officials here Tuesday outlined a brief roadmap of the future of their chips and gave a glimpse inside the company's newest processor, code-named Willamette.
ADVANCED MICRO Devices on Thursday began shipping an 850-MHz version of its popular Athlon processor, putting the company a step ahead of rival Intel in the quest for a real-world processor that operates at the coveted 1-GHz mark.
IBM Corp. took the wraps off its eagerly anticipated EON (Edge of Network) initiative last week, but companies interested in the line of stylized PCs and Internet appliances will have to wait several months before the entire program rolls out.
LEGATO SYSTEMS on Wednesday announced an updated version of its Octopus backup software, Octopus 4.0, calling it the first data replication and disaster recovery software to support Windows 2000.
In a sneak peek of next week's Intel Developer Forum, Intel previewed its Itanium processor and IA-64 architecture at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco this week.
DELL ON Tuesday unveiled its Internet Partner Division, which is intended to increase sales of Dell PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage systems to ISPs and ASPs (application service providers).
Dell Computer Corp. announced Tuesday that it is pre-installing the Linux operating system on two of its current laptop offerings.
Microsoft and EMC announced a global alliance Tuesday to jointly develop business solutions based on the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating system.
When Sun Microsystems Inc. releases Solaris 8 in March, the company hopes to sweeten the new OS's appeal by eliminating end-user and source-code license fees. But access to Internet-centric Solaris 8 code may provide users with little more than a peek under the hood.
Sun Microsystems was today expected to unveil its Solaris 8 operating system, which includes hundreds of new features and enhancements over Solaris 7, a representative for Sun said.
Solaris 8, which has been available in beta version since last November, is aimed at users looking to move their data centres onto the Internet. Sun called reports that Solaris 8 will be "free and open code" inaccurate.