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Fibre Channel switch vendors need to significantly lower their price per port at both the high and low end of the markets, according to IDC. The price for fixed-port Fibre Channel switches on the whole will decline at about 15 percent per year, according to IDC. “The best new opportunities for revenue growth in Fibre […]

IBMs recent Lotus Workplace initiative reinforces the argument that Sun Microsystems has been making lately for its own Java Enterprise System. Both players contend the enterprise IT client needs to be redesigned for the era of pervasive networks and threat-laden environments. Both contend that IT costs can best be controlled and that technical risk can […]

At its Sapphire user conference in New Orleans earlier this month, SAP AG brought home the idea of building a service-oriented architecture, or SOA, with its applications and its NetWeaver integration stack. The Walldorf, Germany, company has gambled that its SOA vision, called the Enterprise Services Architecture, will drive customers using its legacy R/3 client/server […]

Last year, the WLAN industry was divided mostly between vendors that sell central switches and scaled-down access points and those that keep intelligence in so-called fat access points. This year, the lines are less clearly defined. In interviews at the NetWorld+Interop show in Las Vegas earlier this month, eWEEK Senior Editor Carmen Nobel spoke with […]

A report from the General Accounting Office this week recommended that the Department of Homeland Security restrict spending on systems projects to high-priority projects and consider increasing the authority of the CIO. The department lacks an IT strategic plan and DHS agencies are still using the strategic management structures and plans they had when they […]

The Liberty Alliance this week released a document to help interested parties quickly understand the benefits of Libertys Web services framework. The Liberty Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF) provides a blueprint for companies to extend architectures to a federated Web services model, allowing trusted partners, customers and suppliers to access key resources and information protected […]

Network Associates Technology Inc. this week shipped antivirus software expressly designed for Linux servers. McAfee LinuxShield features automatic signature updates and can sniff out viruses within archived files. The software can detect and destroy Windows malware that passes through Linux servers, before they reach clients running Microsofts operating systems. Read the full story at ChannelWeb

Zone Labs Inc. this week announced the addition of antivirus capability to its firewall security suite. ZoneAlarm Security Suite also includes web filtering, privacy protection and instant messaging security. The product is priced at $69.95 for a single user and is available now. Read the full press release at ZoneLabs.com

The debate over Bluetooths future remains fierce even three years after the first certified Bluetooth-enabled products hit the market. Bluetooth advocates and skeptics agree that theres a huge number of Bluetooth-enabled devices the world; however, theres not much evidence that the Bluetooth capabilities of those devices are actually being used. Theres a number of competing […]

As part of its emphasis on developer and security issues at its annual TechEd conference next week, Microsoft will tutor attendees in the finer points of its Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 technologies. WSE is the vehicle via which Microsoft provides annual or biannual updates to its Web services support. The 2.0 release includes support […]

Craig Mullins, Data Management Strategist for BMC Software, says that far-away outsourced DBAs cant easily solve problems, lend guidance or participate in team-development projects. Except for DBA tasks such as database performance management, DBAs work is generally best when done by resident database experts who speak the same language as the programming team and know […]

During the upcoming pretrial phase, legal experts say Judge Vaughan Walker will hear each sides motions to eliminate certain witnesses, categories of evidence and types of arguments. For example, Oracles lawyers could conceivably move to bar any testimony pertaining to claims of past anticompetitive behavior. In the end, the trial outcome will depend on whether […]