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Wi-Fi, VOIP, Mobility in the Air at CeBIT
Voice over IP, 802.11 Wi-Fi, mobile phones and devices, and combinations of the three have had a strong presence at the CeBIT show currently happening in Hannover, Germany—not to mention a scattering of WiMax (802.16 wide-area broadband). For mobile Palm users looking to get more connected, Enfora is showing its new Wi-Fi Sled for the…
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Solution Designed to Ease Compliance in SMB
Regulatory compliance worries aren’t solely the burden of larger enterprises. SMBs (small and midsize businesses) face compliance headaches as well. Maze Information Solutions Inc., a reseller in Orlando, Fla., has cultivated a niche installing compliance solutions for small stock and insurance brokerages. Specifically, Maze implements Intradyn Inc.’s ComplianceVault E-mail Archiving and Retrieval Appliance, which employs…
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Group Aims to End VAR Ignorance on RFID
Radio-frequency identification networks are the next big thing in retail, distribution, inventory tracking and nearly every other corporate operation that involves moving things from here to there and keeping track of them once they’ve arrived. RFID systems use smart tags that can be attached to cases, pallets or individual items, and they broadcast their data…
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Indra Networks Offers Hardware-Based Data Compression
In an effort to get the word out about its real-time data compression engine, tiny Indra Networks Inc. of San Jose, Calif., has begun actively promoting its StorCompress line of data compression technology. The company has recently introduced StorCompress 200, a disk-to-disk storage product that uses the industry-standard “deflate” algorithm for compression, but does so…
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RLX Gets First OEM Deal, More Funding
Three months after shedding its hardware business to focus on its server management software, RLX Technologies Inc. is announcing its first OEM partnership and another round of funding. RLX was a pioneer in the blade server space, rolling out the System 324 in 2001. However, since then, the space has become dominated by the major…
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Cisco Ships Updated Catalyst Switch
Cisco has quietly expanded the options available in its new mid-range fixed configuration Catalyst network switches. Cisco Systems Inc. last week shipped the new Catalyst 4948 10/100/1000 Ethernet 48-port switch. Aimed at server farms or clusters as well as Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer aggregation, the new unit takes up a single rack unit and…
