Jeff Burt

In a variation on the traditional disaster recovery services industry, managed services provider InterOps Inc. recently added an as-needed management rollover and backup support service for Internet operations centers. The new Internet Management Continuity Service offers a cheaper, six-figure alternative to disaster recovery services that typically cost several million dollars, according to officials with the […]

The latest version of Escalate Inc.s supply chain management suite includes enhancements aimed at easing problems associated with managing a large number of vendors. Escalate Supplier 2.5, which began shipping this month, provides real-time visibility into the status of any order while eliminating manual order processing. New in Version 2.5 is the capability to automate […]

Iona Technologies Inc. has released a tool that company executives said enables developers to create Web services that can run on either of the leading platforms: Microsoft Corp.s .Net and Sun Microsystems Inc.s J2EE. Version 1.2 of Ionas XMLBus, introduced at midmonth, supports .Net, Microsofts SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) Toolkit and Java 2 Enterprise […]

Questions answered Enterprises that need to find a better way of figuring out which of their Internet service providers is delivering the best performance or want to be sure that routing protocols are choosing the fastest path may now be able to get some answers. Better management In November, RouteScience Inc., a San Mateo, Calif., […]

PKI implementations come with hefty time and financial investments. A New York company said it has a way around them. CertCo Inc. last week released an electronic-signing product that is designed to perform all the functions of a full public-key infrastructure implementation without the attendant financial requirements. CertSigner is based on a community structure in […]

Oracle Corp. has a plan to make all its applications accessible via wireless devices. To that end, the Redwood Shores, Calif., company this month announced the release of its Mobile-Enabled e-Business Suite. For now, customers can satisfy their wireless needs by accessing such key business applications as field sales, field service and customer intelligence—part of […]

NTP Software this week will launch a policy-based version of its storage management tool, Quota & File Sentinel. The new version, 3.0, installs on networks using push technology and doesnt require any rebooting. New functionality includes 200 thresholds per policy, dynamic quota updating to folders and new users, temporary policies for part-time users, consultants, service-based […]

If you use technology from Tivoli Systems Inc., there is now a new way to get technical support without having to go online. The Austin, Texas, enterprise, an IBM company, has released the Tivoli Knowledge Toolkit, a CD containing Tivoli documentation, support tools, field guides and white papers, and a reference guide to Tivoli information […]

SilverStream Software Inc. last week continued its push into the Web services arena, rolling out a portable Web services engine and tools as part of the latest point release of its application server. SilverStream Application Server Version 3.7.3 includes support for such protocols as Extensible Markup Language, Simple Object Access Protocol, and Universal Description, Discovery […]

Software makers are under increasing pressure from customers to make applications accessible via wireless devices. For most vendors, the choices are to spend a lot of money and time custom-building their own wireless technology— making customers buy third-party products—or to ignore customers needs. Curious Networks Inc. last week unveiled a product that it said will […]

Empirix Inc. this month announced Multimedia Test Ensemble, a system for testing customer-facing voice and Web applications and infrastructures. The Waltham, Mass., companys system combines its Hammer IT (voice testing) and e-Test suite (Web testing) with the new Multimedia Synchronization Server and Multimedia Test Manager tools. MTE can generate virtual callers, Web users and contact […]

Handling the crisis With the country battling a power crisis, American Power Conversion Corp. this month began offering a service for its remote monitoring suite. Swapping data The Web-based service enables users to exchange information at the network level, officials of the West Kingston, R.I., company said. When a businesss power source is coupled to […]