Stories by Paul Krill

Frontier to detail extension of app hosting

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 details next phase of Its VPN plan

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.

Applications management standard proposed

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.

Monitoring tools get a boost

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, Compaq ink messaging bundling deal

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.

SAN alliance for standards unveiled

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.

CA to build knowledge portal with Platinum

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.

CA to Define Middleware Architecture

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.

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