Frontier Communications at the NetWorld+Interop conference in Las Vegas this week will detail offerings that would enable users to offload e-mail and messaging applications, and potentially even ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems to the telecom services provider.
Cisco Systems has detailed several products, including a new 7100 Series router family, that are being presented as part of phase three of its Enterprise Virtual Private Network (E-VPN) strategy.
Computer Associates International (CA) and J.P. Morgan & Co. are co-sponsoring a standard specification for an application management framework focused on business processes and heterogeneous computing, the two companies said last week.
Focusing on quality of service, Web-based system monitoring, and data traffic flow regulation, a plethora of vendors, including Ipswitch, NetScout Systems, and Ripple Technologies, will roll out a variety of network-management tools at the NetWorld+Interop conference in Las Vegas in two weeks.
Lucent Technologies will bundle its Octel Unified Messenger for Microsoft Exchange Server software with Compaq Computer servers to capitalise on a growing trend toward convergence of messaging applications.
Heavyweights from the storage area network (SAN) industry -- including EMC, Compaq Computer, Dell Computer and StorageTek -- yesterday announced an agreement to work together toward developing interoperable device standards to foster the growth of SANs as a whole.
Computer Associates International hopes to leverage Platinum Technology's experience in data warehousing to build an enterprise-level knowledge portal based on CA's Jasmine object database, said CA president and chief operating officer Sanjay Kumar when announcing CA's $US3.5 billion acquisition of Platinum.
Computer Associates will round out its Harmony information management strategy during the next 12 to 18 months with the rollout of a Common Computing Infrastructure that will enable the creation of a one-size-fits-all application deployment and network management infrastructure.