Tag: infrastructure

  • HP, Cisco Extend Partnership

    HP, Cisco Extend Partnership

    Wayne Rash

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    Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems are announcing an expanded partnership in which HP’s Technical Services group will implement enterprise-class wireless installations based on Cisco’s new 3750G wireless controllers and Unified Wireless Network Software 4.0. Applications supported by the new partnership include IT asset tracking, presence-based applications, voice, and intrusion detection and prevention. “We’re extending the relationship… Read more

  • BEA Buys Flashline for SOA Edge

    BEA Buys Flashline for SOA Edge

    Darryl K. Taft

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    In a move to bolster its service-oriented architecture tool set, BEA Systems has acquired Flashline. The San Jose, Calif., company acquired Cleveland-based Flashline for its metadata repository and will incorporate that repository into the BEA AquaLogic family. The Flashline repository will become BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository and will be a complementary product to BEA’s AquaLogic… Read more

  • Tap the Potential of ISVs

    Michael Vizard

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    For far too many years, solution providers and ISVs have been like ships passing in the night. They occasionally fire off a salute to one another around a specific project, but, for the most part, they usually don’t engage each other on a regular basis. Fortunately, in the last couple of years there has been… Read more

  • Nursing a Printer Network Back to Health

    Nursing a Printer Network Back to Health

    Lynn Haber

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    After years of watching the cost of providing services lag behind reimbursement for treatments, business administrators at Leesburg Regional Medical Center knew it was time to take action. To stem the bleeding, managers implemented cost-saving initiatives that would ultimately offer better value to patients and to the communities served by the medical center. One of… Read more

  • Microsoft Reveals Details of Its RFID Infrastructure

    Microsoft Reveals Details of Its RFID Infrastructure

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    DALLAS—Microsoft Corp. revealed at this week’s RFID World conference here that it is developing an RFID infrastructure—one that its claims will affordably handle device management, event management, integration and application development. The infrastructure, in beta since January, is really an expansion of a middleware strategy Microsoft introduced just about a year ago. In April 2004,… Read more

  • iSCSI Gets Another Look

    John Moore

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    A year ago, channel executives described iSCSI as a technology in its infancy—an interesting storage approach but one that wasn’t getting too far with resellers. But as 2005 draws to a close, iSCSI’s standing has changed dramatically. The fast-growing technology is now considered a viable option for storage networking as opposed to a theoretical possibility.… Read more