Although Microsoft is keen to encourage backup appliances based on its forthcoming Data Protection Server (DPS) package, hardware manufacturers are remaining cautious about the concept.
Every server maker is focused on making Intel servers better datacentre citizens. Why not go all the way and make them fault-tolerant?
Dell is targetting small business with a series of laptops, desktop and associated services to cure integration blues for organisations with less than 10 employees.
Chip-makers are keen to talk up the benefits of their next-generation hardware solutions, especially when it comes to virtualisation, but will these solutions work for CIOs?
Yet again denial-of-service attacks, spam, viruses - driven in part by an apparent war between virus writers - and cybercrime have hit the headlines over the course of the past 12 months.
Or is convergence just a pipe dream that should be quietly forgotten? Given all the talk about melding voice and data networks, why aren't more companies implementing it?
If Australia ever experiences the kind of widespread power-outage seen in Italy recently, mirrored SANs could provide one way to keep data safe.
A faster variation on the 802.11b wireless networking standard seems certain to arrive in the market too late to make any real impact. The 802.11g specification may cause little more than confusion, as it will be beaten to the market by the superior 802.11a standard, according to industry spokespeople.
Mesh technology allows new wireless networks to be created, or existing WLANs to be extended, without needing a wired connection to each base station. Additional reading: WLAN Resource Centre
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