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Protection Zone Labs Inc. this month introduced Integrity, a centrally managed security solution designed to give IT managers a simple way to protect end-user PCs. Firewall technology Integrity includes the San Francisco companys personal- firewall technology and can protect PCs running virtual private network software, something many other personal firewalls cant do. The software blocks […]

As Red Hat Inc. CEO Matthew Szulik sees interest in Linux picking up, most recently with Sun Microsystems Inc.s announcement that it is backing the open-source operating system, he is looking to push the envelope on collaborative software development even further. His company last week acknowledged it had purchased collaborative development technology and hired developers […]

Funny thing about XML database servers: Even though XML is by now firmly established as the lingua franca of the next phase of e-commerce, conventional wisdom has it that dedicated XML databases are not yet ready for prime-time enterprise use. With no robust XML query standards in place and few examples of large XML database […]

To help service providers, particularly old-time incumbents, wend their way gradually into IP networking, edge router vendors are designing more products that combine ATM switching, MPLS and IP services on one platform. Unisphere Networks Inc., of Westford, Mass., has introduced what it is calling the industrys first multiservice edge router. The MRX integrates carrier-class IP […]

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Intel Corp. will tout the improved performance of its next Itanium processor, the virtual dual-CPU capability of its upcoming Xeon chips, a 5GHz Pentium 4, and its latest communication and networking advancements at the companys spring conference next week. Described by the chip maker as a “jam session for developers,” Intel, based in Santa Clara, […]

As PC sales continue to list, a handful of companies are readying high-end systems ranging from high-density, rack-mounted servers to robust mainframes to help IT better manage the enterprise. RLX Technologies Inc., Dell Computer Corp. and IBM this week will unveil blade servers, rack-mounted servers and low-priced mainframes, respectively, giving IT managers a fresh crop […]

As Red Hat Software Inc. CEO Matthew Szulik sees interest in Linux pick up, most recently with Sun Microsystems Inc.s announcement that it is backing the open source operating system, he is looking to push the envelope on collaborative software development even further. Szuliks company last week acknowledged that it had purchased some collaborative development […]

Cisco Systems Inc. Wednesday beefed up its line of firewall products to improve network security and virtual private network performance. Two firewall enhancements, the PIX 506E and PIX 515E platforms, provide improved performance for the PIX 506 and 515 firewall platforms. The enhanced products are slated to increase performance by as much as two and […]

Dell Computer Corp. posted a 5 percent increase in quarterly profits despite a 7 percent drop in sales. However, its annual net income plummet 43 percent, the worlds top PC maker reported on Thursday. For its fiscal fourth quarter, which ended Feb. 1, Dell posted net income of $456 million, or 17 cents a share, […]

If other storage makers dont want to work with EMC Corp. to share development interfaces, then EMC will target its rivals products with reverse engineering. EMC, considered the leader in enterprise direct-attached storage, needs its competitors to share their application programming interfaces so the Hopkinton, Mass., company can make its promise of vendor-agnostic management software, […]

Storage hardware analysis products will debut from most of the niches significant vendors this spring and summer, exploiting the precision needs of trends in high availability, vendor interoperability and scalability. Black-box products from Finisar Systems, Ancot Corp. and I-Tech Corp. are used in developing, manufacturing and troubleshooting Fibre Channel and SCSI storage hardware. Experts say […]