Recent Articles
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Networking’s Mojo Returns
The network is back. For the network administrators in the room, that statement may not be much of a shocker. But for other casual observers—including me—the networking industry hasn’t been terribly exciting ever since Cisco Systems was briefly the most valuable company in the world during the dot-com boom. Since then, networking overall has been,…
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Juniper Updates WXC Line
Juniper Networks and Silver Peak Systems are looking to grow their offerings in the application acceleration space. Juniper on Oct. 16 will address the need to scale deployments of its WXC line of application acceleration appliances by introducing a new high-end version and an update to the line’s operating system software. The WXC 590 is…
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Special Delivery: Fast WANs and App Acceleration
Technology executives are centralizing data while their employees are dispersing far and wide. They’re all waiting anxiously for the WAN to deliver hot applications—fast—to mobile workers hankering for performance. Technology managers and vendors are racing to oblige. This perfect storm of needs—including more mobile workers, the Webification of software, speedier networks and office consolidation—is driving…
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Trend Micro Offers Security Appliance to Protect E-Mail Networks
Responding to demand from its customers for more hardware-based systems, Trend Micro introduced its new integrated messaging security appliance on Oct. 9, the final piece of the company’s strategy to build devices to host each of its software products. Dubbed the InterScan Messaging Security Appliance, the device promises to help companies protect their e-mail networks…
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T-Mobile to Announce 3G Service
T-Mobile USA CEO Robert Dotson will announce T-Mobile’s move into 3G service at a press conference in New York on Oct. 6. Dotson will report on the results of the company’s recent spectrum auction win, including substantial space on the 1.7 and 2.1 GHz bands, and the expansion of available spectrum in the company’s 1.9GHz…
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Arrow to Acquire Niche Distributor Alternative Technologies
Arrow Electronics is broadening its solution scope. The distributor announced on Oct. 5 its intention to purchase Alternative Technology, a niche distributor with specialties in infrastructure, networking and security. The acquisition, expected to be fulfilled sometime in November, does little to Arrow’s numbers—Alternative Technology made $330 million in sales in 2005 compared to Arrow’s $11.1…
