Tag: infrastructure

  • HP, Brocade Integrate SAN Switching, Blade Architecture

    HP, Brocade Integrate SAN Switching, Blade Architecture

    Karen Schwartz

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    IT managers concerned about deploying blade technology into heterogeneous environments may have an easier time of it with the recent announcement that Brocade’s SAN (storage area network) switching capabilities will be integrated into the Hewlett-Packard BladeSystem architecture. The integrated offering embeds a 4 Gbit-per-second Brocade Fibre Channel fabric switch into the HP BladeSystem, which itself… Read more

  • Verizon’s Spring Break-In

    Verizon’s Spring Break-In

    Shelley Solheim

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    According to published carrier reports filed with the Federal Communications Commission, a variety of things, from natural disasters to careless maintenance, can result in disruptive and costly network outages. But sometimes, as in the case of a Verizon Communications Inc. central office last spring, the cause can be deliberate. As first reported in in May,… Read more

  • What About Wireless Management Tools?

    Cameron Sturdevant

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    From an operations point of view, IT managers should treat wireless network infrastructure equipment in the same way as wire-line equipment. Doing so makes managing a wireless network a lot less cumbersome and a lot less expensive. For example, IT managers can get much of the information they need for wireless network planning simply by… Read more

  • Low-End Systems Lead Server Demand

    Low-End Systems Lead Server Demand

    Jeffrey Burt

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    Recent reports by the leading market research companies show that worldwide server sales continue to rise, indicating that enterprises are beginning to loosen their purse strings for IT infrastructure purchases. Check out eWEEK.com’s Infrastructure Center at http://infrastructure.eweek.com for the latest news, views and analysis on servers, switches and networking protocols for the enterprise and small… Read more

  • Microsoft Adds More Vertical Infrastructure to Its SMB Product Family

    Microsoft Adds More Vertical Infrastructure to Its SMB Product Family

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Microsoft announced Tuesday morning that it has purchased accounting products from reseller partner Encore Business Solutions and is adding them to its Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) stable. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Microsoft purchased Encore’s non-profit accounting software, as well as its inter-company payables management and requisition modules. MBS already resells these… Read more

  • Sybase to Acquire XcelleNet

    Joel Shore

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    DUBLIN, CA — Enterprise infrastructure and mobile software supplier Sybase Inc. signed an agreement this week to purchase privately held XcelleNet, Inc., the developer of frontline device management software. The all-cash transaction is valued at approximately $95.2 million. Sybase intends to integrate XcelleNet into its iAnywhere Solutions subsidiary. The acquisition will allow Sybase to offer… Read more