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WLAN Vendors Link Switches to Third-Party Access Points
Two wireless LAN switching vendors are launching programs aimed at making their switches communicate with third-party access points. Aruba Wireless Networks Inc. this week will begin the Aruba Certified program, which involves its access point source code, and Trapeze Networks Inc. will launch a program called Open Access Point Initiative. Officials at both companies said…
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IBM: Ascential Buy Will Fill Hole in Information Integration
As onStrategies’ analyst Tony Baer puts it, IBM’s announcement to buy Ascential Software Corp. for $1.1 billion was clear in hindsight. It means that IBM gets a profitable company plus product that fills a “clear gap,” Baer wrote in a recent analyst’s note. “… It’s a company with which they’re quite familiar, having accrued over…
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Foundry Seeks a Place Among High-End Service Providers
Foundry Networks Inc. made its biggest play in the high-end service provider space Monday when it launched its new flagship NetIron IMR 640 core router and new edge router. The new core router, along with the new EdgeIron 2404, are aimed at new MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) services, broadband Internet access Virtual Private Network services…
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Resellers Must Reposition in Stagnant Storage Market
A series of recent channel announcements share a common thread: the notion that regulatory compliance helps drive storage demand. Executives at Arrow Electronics Inc. cited compliance as a force in the company’s storage growth. Electronic Data Systems Corp. said it formed an e-mail archiving alliance with EMC Corp. to focus on corporate compliance issues. EMC’s…
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Latest Looks at the 64-Bit Future
Though 64-bit computing has been around for some 14 years or so, until recently it has been accessible only to those operating high-end servers running RISC-based processors such as Sun Microsystem Inc.’s SPARC, IBM’s Power and Hewlett-Packard Co.’s PA-RISC. That is changing, and soon everything—from thin-and-light notebooks to desktops to blade servers—will be running on…
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IBM Offers Pay-as-You-Go Access to Newest Supercomputer
IBM has opened its fourth Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center, this one populated by its Blue Gene supercomputer. Armed with more than 2,000 PowerPC processors, the Rochester, Minn., center is designed to give researchers and enterprises access to the supercomputing resources via a VPN (virtual private network), paying only for the compute power they…
