eWEEK EDITORS

Cogent Communications put together the missing pieces of its connectivity strategy and cast the future of the troubled in-building competitive carrier market this week when it acquired Allied Riser Communications. Allied Riser was the leading in-building access provider in the U.S. By buying it, Cogent follows in the footsteps of gigabit Ethernet provider Yipes Communications, […]

The Securities Industry Automation Corporation, whose computing systems handle the actual transactions of the New York and American stock exchanges, is running its major reporting system to customers under Linux, representatives of the key Wall Street institution said Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. The move was heralded by IBM officials […]

At one point during WorldComs acquisition of Digex, the managed hoster was valued at $120 per share. Now this multibillion-dollar asset is fully integrated with WorldCom, and its leadership is talking a new game: surrendering ownership of new data centers to WorldCom and enabling its parent to develop Digex capacities in the data centers of […]

If wide area networks are like congested freeways, startup Peribit Networks is ready to install high-speed mass-transit lines to make network traffic zoom. The company, which plans to announce its first product today, has developed a new technology that improves network performance using a method best compared to the principles of mapping DNA. Using what […]

As Linuxs importance as a strategic platform grows among major server vendors, Sun Microsystems may find itself the last man standing on proprietary ground. Hewlett-Packard stepped up its Linux commitment with last weeks release of HP Secure OS Software for Linux, in advance of this weeks LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. The company […]

A new committee of the Information Technology Association of America announced earlier this month will target storage service providers interests and will lobby for international storage regulations and certifications, the committees chairman said. Data storage today is seen much as data security was two years ago, said Bobby Patrick, vice president of Laurel, Md., hosting […]

In the Webs first inning, Silicon Graphics Inc. was the potential home-run hitter that struck out. But CEO Robert Bishop, who has run the company for the last two years, sees a brilliant Internet future for SGIs high-performance Unix systems in delivering rich broadband content. That market hasnt yet materialized, though, and for now SGI […]

Its already proven itself adept at hosting auctions, but can the darling of the dot-coms make a profit by providing small businesses with storefront services? Thats the question people are asking about eBay, which in June announced it would offer easy-to-build Web stores and list them on its popular site for $10 per month. EBays […]

With one of the biggest trees in the broadband forest leaning at a perilous angle, technology managers, telecom carriers and policy makers are debating the shallow root system of the entire Internet economy. Excite@Home, the nations biggest broadband service, is tottering on the edge of bankruptcy and adding fuel to the raging debate about how […]

Dont give up on the Internet or the carriers jockeying for a piece of its traffic just yet. The Internet is growing faster now than it did in the halcyon days of 1998 and 1999, and the race to decide which company will carry the traffic is much closer and more crowded than most believe. […]