Hospitals' patch fears on the wane
In the year or so since conflict between hospitals and manufacturers over the security of networked medical devices went public,
much has changed for the better.
Online retailers ready for holiday crush
While the Friday after Thanksgiving is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, online retailers are gearing
up for heavier traffic beginning today - a day some industry watchers have dubbed 'Cyber Monday.'
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Citigroup controls network resources
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VoIP scheme gets big backers
Cisco, Microsoft will support and implement Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) technology, which is a proposed IETF
standard for allowing VoIP calls to traverse firewalls without compromising security.
Lucent gaining momentum behind IMS
Lucent is riding a new wave of momentum thanks to high-profile convergence contracts and growth on revenue and profit margin
over the past year.
Start-ups seek to shake up multiprocessor server market
A new breed of server company is targeting customers unsatisfied with the processing power of x86 system clusters and unwilling
to pay steep prices for current proprietary symmetric multiprocessing boxes.
Cyberattacks shift to apps, net devices
After years of writing viruses and worms for operating systems and software running on Internet servers, hackers have switched
their focus to network devices and applications in 2005, a new report says.
News briefs: Server sales spike, analysts report
Also: Texas, EFF to sue Sony over rootkit; Lockheed loses interest in CSC; Cisco buys Digital Fairway; AT&T resurrects AT&T
Wireless brand name
Microsoft opening up document format
Microsoft hoping to find standardization for Office file formats
Cisco finally bets big on video
Cisco's $6.9 billion acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta gives the company its biggest video bet and instant leadership in a
market on which it has had little previous impact.
Alcatel plays catch-up with 10G switches
Alcatel this week is to launch two switches targeted for corporate-backbone and data-center deployments, where Gigabit Ethernet
links are either aggregated from stacks of LAN-edge switches in wiring closets or from racks of Gigabit-enabled servers.
Intradyn rolls out e-mail archiving appliance
Intradyn last week introduced an e-mail archiving appliance that captures messages and stores them on hard disk, optical media
or tape for compliance purposes.
Software watches service providers
ComBrio, which for the past year has delivered appliances to help service providers manage customer networks, is turning the
tables somewhat and giving network managers a tool for managing service providers.
In brief: Sprint to buy wireless affiliate Alamosa Holdings
Alamosa provides Sprint PCS services in 19 states, serving approximately 1.48 million direct wireless subscribers in 242 customer
service areas.
Quest extends Windows-Linux integration
Quest Software, which has been building a cross-platform bridge between Linux and Windows systems, is expected to release
early next year a tool that lets users monitor the open source operating system from their Microsoft management consoles.
In brief: Business Objects upgrades BI software
The application - BusinessObjects Intelligent Question - in BusinessObjects XI Release 2 lets users create queries in their
everyday language by answering questions from drop-down menus.
In brief: Tarari ships XML acceleration engines
Also: Crosswalk announces back-up monitoring software; Microsoft upgrades synchronization of Windows Mobile 5.0
SonicWall buys boost security, storage
The company is paying a total of $20 million for enKoo, which makes SSL VPN equipment for SMBs, and Lasso Logic, which makes
appliances that back up data locally and provides a service to back up data at its secure storage facility.
In brief: Liberty Alliance announces interoperability test results
Also: GFI releases LANguard Network Security Scanner 7.0; RSA Security announces RSA Card Manager
Security still top IT spending priority
A recent survey of 100 IT executives predicts that IT spending will decrease slightly in 2006 as more businesses worry about
global economic conditions, but security software and enterprise IT upgrades remain top concerns, according to Goldman Sachs.
Novell taps IBM, Lucent veteran as CTO
Novell has appointed as its new CTO an executive who spent the past five years at Lucent and its Bell Laboratories arm and
20 years before that at IBM.
Virtual tape system adds security
Neartek, a maker of virtual tape library systems, says the latest version of its appliance works better across remote sites
and provides improved data security.
