Stories about: Rand

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Microsoft Hyper-V still a work in progress, group says 02 September, 2009 13:27

Windows Server 2008 R2 will help Microsoft narrow the feature gap with virtualization products from VMware and Citrix Systems, but its new Hyper-V software still won't be "production-ready" for most enterprise applications, according to Burton Group.
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Data security meets disco fever 24 July, 2008 10:24

Here's a travel advisory: The next time you find yourself in a foreign city at night with nothing to do, take my advice: rent a movie in your hotel room. Don't go to discos. And if you do go out, don't bring a smart phone with you.
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Microsoft ships Hyper-V 27 June, 2008 08:35

Microsoft Thursday released its Hyper-V virtualization server, which has been nearly five year in the making and is a major play in the company's march toward services-based computing.
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How one vendor learned to stop worrying (about open source) and love Microsoft 09 May, 2008 08:54

Aras was a small, struggling software maker that stirred up a hornet's nest early last year, when it made a pair of seemingly contradictory decisions.
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Windows Server 2008 users say they'e on a roll 27 February, 2008 13:26

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 may not ship officially until February 28, but early adopters are running it in production networks and reporting solid results with new features including everything from stretched clusters to workload specific configurations of the server.
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Happy birthday, Sputnik! (Thanks for the Internet) 02 October, 2007 06:00

Quick, what's the most influential piece of hardware from the early days of computing? The IBM 360 mainframe? The DEC PDP-1 minicomputer? Maybe earlier computers such as Binac, ENIAC or Univac? Or, going way back to the 1800s, is it the Babbage Difference Engine?
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CSIRO patent threat to 802.11n may be overblown 28 September, 2007 09:11

A patent claim by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation would probably not sink the IEEE 802.11n standard, according to some wireless LAN industry veterans.
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The top network inventors of all time 03 July, 2007 15:17

Although boxing legend George Foreman, a judge on the second-year CBS reality show American Inventor, has yet to invent a network device, his Lean Mean Grilling Fat-Reducing Machine has been used by countless techies to quickly cook sandwiches and hamburgers after a long day in the data center.
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CSIRO win another round in US wireless case 18 June, 2007 12:52

A federal court in Texas has granted Australian science agency, the CSIRO, an injunction to prevent infringement of its wireless network patent by the Buffalo group of companies in the United States.
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Search optimizers turn to social sites 06 June, 2007 16:12

Web 2.0 has come to search engine optimization. Or rather, search engine optimizers have discovered Web 2.0.
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Rush to see nude Bingle crashes GQ servers 02 April, 2007 09:39

An influx of curious Aussie men, eager to get a glimpse of Lara Bingle in the buff, have crashed the GQ Germany Web site after it published nude photos of the popular model.