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As an additional component of its namesake Integration Utility Services, Viacore Inc. last week released its Provisioning Console. The Provisioning Console is a self-managed tool that provides trading partners with a streamlined connectivity process that gives real-time visibility into partner integration status. Viacore, based in Irvine, Calif., operates private trading networks for companies deploying private […]

Novell Inc. announced last week that it has named professional services veteran Bob Couture as vice president of Global Consulting. Couture, with 20 years under his belt at IBM and Xerox Corp. and more recently as chief operating officer of Berkeley Enterprise Partners Inc., is charged with developing and executing Novells growth strategy for its […]

Can your service provider expand your data connectivity and voice lines when you need it? If not, you may want to look into an upgraded integrated access device for carriers built with the connectivity needs of small and midsize offices in mind. Integral Access Inc., in Chelmsford, Mass., upgraded its PurePacketOutburst-SB integrated access device, which […]

In an attempt to strengthen defenses against possible terrorist attacks, Winter Olympics IT officials have decided against rolling out wireless applications and have instead added new layers of physical security. The changes are part of a top-to-bottom, post-Sept. 11 review of security at the Games, which occur in Salt Lake City Feb. 8-25. Salt Lake […]

Recognizing the error of its old thinking, TrueSAN Networks Inc. will essentially relaunch on Monday with new storage management software called Cloudbreak, President and CEO Tom Isakovich said on Friday. The San Jose, Calif., company originally sold RAID hardware in 1999 and began selling storage-area networking products in 2000, but stopped a few months ago. […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. next month will roll out storage management software in a package called Integrated Management Suite, which will be launched Feb. 6. Sources close to the Palo Alto, Calif., company also said that Sun will run the software—parts of which are new, parts of which are merely rebranded—on an in-band Solaris server marketed […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is planning to turn over more of its PC manufacturing to an outside company in a bid to reduce operating expenses and improve profitability. HP began outsourcing its PC manufacturing in 1993. Currently, HP outsources all of its consumer PCs and slightly less than 50 percent of the companys commercial PCs, according to […]

Dell Computer Corp. on Friday said that thanks to stronger than expected consumer sales, its fourth-quarter earnings will come in higher than it had projected. Although its quarter doesnt end until Feb. 1, the computer maker issued the statement raising its projected revenue to $8 billion, up from the previously forecasted $7.6 billion. The Round […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. posted a smaller loss for the fourth quarter than analysts had projected, due, according to the company, to stronger than expected holiday sales of its microprocessors. The No. 2 PC chipmaker reported a net loss of $15.8 million, or five cents a diluted share, for the three-month period, which was significantly […]

Low-power chip designer Transmeta Inc., hammered the delayed release of a new processor, saw its losses mount in the fourth quarter as the Silicon Valley companys revenues plunge from last year. For the quarter, the maker of Crusoe processors on Thursday reported a net loss $49.7 million, or 38 cents per share, far worse than […]