Monthly Archives: April 2005
Adobe to Buy Macromedia in $3.4 Billion Deal
In a move that is likely to have major ramifications for the publishing, print and Web design industries, Adobe Systems Inc. has announced it...
Microsoft, GridIron Unveil Encoding Accelerator
GridIron Software, a developer of grid computing products, and Microsoft soon will be shipping an encoding product designed to significantly speed digital video encoding...
Cisco Hikes Router Line Modularity
Cisco Systems Inc. last week unveiled a series of router enhancements that are aimed at giving service providers greater network flexibility, efficiency and manageability.In...
Azul Taps Network Resources
Azul Systems Inc. wants to do with compute power what other companies have done with storage and I/O—take it off the server and create...
Data Recovery Market Heats Up
Microsoft Corp. and Veritas Software Corp. appear headed for a showdown as they vie to woo smaller backup and recovery customers with self-service file...
SAS Unveils Life Science Apps, Updates Forecasting Tool
PHILADELPHIA—At the SAS User Group International Conference here last week, SAS Institute Inc. announced applications for the life sciences industry and previewed a forecasting...
Automatic Protection Systems Are Too Dumb and Too Fast
I heard the other day from a user of a highly reliable software development tool set. One of the .exe files in that product...
SNS Finds Fix for Ordering Strains
There was a time when just spending more money might have been the IT solution to problems that sales growth was creating at Howard...
IBM Stresses App Security
IBM is planning to bolster its development tool set with features to help developers bake security into their applications.Anthony Nadalin, chief security architect for...
Con-Way, Guardian Cite SOA Success
The service-oriented architecture, or SOA, has become a lucrative reality for two quite different companies that both understand the distinction between mere Web services...