Energy Co. Lab
One of our corporate lab partners is a Bay Area energy company whose worldwide network includes some 13,000 users and virtually every kind of networking hardware and software. Network Computing Contributing Editor Jay Milne spends several days a week at this company, working on NT, messaging, and network-oriented product evaluations, test plans, and other projects. Network Computing and this energy company cooperate on projects for the magazine as well as for their IT organization, thus bringing the real-world experiences of IS managers directly into our pages.
Lab Description:
Number of servers and clients:
- 30,000 PCs on their network (primarily Windows 95 and NT)
- 2,000 Macintoshes
Operating systems:
- Novell NetWare 3.x/4.x
- Microsoft NT 4.0
Their major applications include:
- SAP on HP Unix
- Microsoft Exchange
- Oracle data bases
- IIS web servers
- legacy applications running on the mainframe
Over 30 different sites connected via
- High Speed WAN connections ranging from
- 56Kb to T3
Located around the world from the US to the USSR, Australia to South Africa and everywhere in between.
The editor located here:
Jay Milne
, Contributing Editor
Recent Articles:
- WebConsole Aids NT Management, Sneak Previews, April 5, 1999
- Enterprise Network Printing, Interactive Network Design Manuals, January 20, 1999
- Compaq 1850R Optimized for Rack System, Sneak Previews, October 15, 1998
- NAV Now Reduces Mail-Borne Viruses, Sneak Previews, September 15, 1998
- Low-Cost Intel Servers: You've Come A Long Way, Baby, Workgroup Computing, June 15, 1998
- NetWare 3.2: No Network Amateur, Sneak Previews, May 1, 1998
- MasterSwitch Gives You Power From A Distance, Sneak Previews, May 1, 1998
- Desktop Backups Grow Well On Stac's Sequoia, Sneak Previews, March 15, 1998
- Tuning NT: Is It Worth Your Time?, Workshops, March 1, 1998
- Coloring Inside Your Network Lines, Buyers Guide, March 1, 1998
- State of the NOS, Features, February 1, 1998
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