Dan Neel

The top three server vendors in the world are now engaged in a fierce battle for the small to midsize business server market.

Continuing its development of peer-to-peer computing, Intel preannounced the arrival of XML Web service technology and other p-to-p "building blocks" at this week's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Jose, Calif.

For the first time since the introduction of the Pentium III chip family in late 1999, Intel Corp. has moved to a smaller, more efficient processor architecture for a new line of mobile chips.

A surprisingly large number of IT companies are underutilizing their existing storage resources, resulting in unnecessary storage expenditures and added management expenses, industry experts believe.

Tape storage still plays a significant role as a backup tool in network data storage even as disk prices are falling because new tape storage products from vendors such as Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC), as well as improved tape formats such as Super DLT (digital linear tape), move tape storage technology forward.

Intel Corp. rolled out on Monday its first post-Pentium III Xeon chips. The dual-processor chips, simply called Xeon processors, now ship with Intel's NetBurst architecture, which originally debuted in Intel's Pentium 4 chip, according to Intel officials.

Applying it's IP networking savvy to the advancement of IP storage technology, Cisco Systems Inc. last month introduced its first storage product, the Cisco SN 5420 storage router.

Complex storage networks comprised of multivendor technologies are commonplace in today's IT landscape, but adding storage onto a mixed network can often wind up straining a company's bottom line.