Monthly Archives: February 2001
D.C. Tech Outlook Promising
The Washington metropolitan area is experiencing its share of downsizing in the technology industry, but researchers say the outlook is good.The suburban region south...
Honest, But Slow
Earthlink, the second-largest Net service provider, may be No. 2 for a reason. The companys Atlanta servers go down more than occasionally, leaving DSL...
Heading Off Hack Attacks
While many security products such as intrusion detection and anti-virus technology concentrate on identifying and alerting administrators to attacks after theyve taken place, several...
Alcatel Speaks Up
Telecom equipment giant Alcatel is expected to announce plans to deploy Voice-over-Digital Subscriber Lines this week, likely giving the technology a jump-start.DSL is used...
Andersen Tackles Management Services
Arthur Andersen LLP last week quietly kicked off an MSP offering designed to let customers offload network monitoring and management responsibilities.The new monthly subscription...
Cisco Earnings Disappoint; Weak in Optical Products
The dominant enterprise router and switch vendor, Cisco Systems, will have to field new optical and other products to return to the hyper growth...
The Dilbert LAN
Iona Technologies Wanted a gigabit LAN that would allow it to easily relocate systems and add users without having to continually rerun cable. So...
Make a Splash
We told you a while back that a tsunami was headed our way. Well, its here.Many vendors and analysts predict that converged data and...
F5 Load Balancer Farms Power on the Web
F5 Networks Inc.s Big-IP HA controller load balancer makes Web farms of heterogeneous commodity servers a viable alternative to expensive big-iron servers and hard-to-manage...
Reaching Out to Users Is a Hands-on Job
Even in the hands-off world of outsourced IT management, sometimes, theres just no substitute for being there. In an effort to better reach out...