John S. McCright

Nortel Networks Corp. last week unveiled a new vision and several products for enabling enterprises to deliver voice, data and multimedia over a converged IP network. The goal of the Brampton, Ontario, companys “One Network, a World of Choice” campaign is to create a seamless experience for employees and customers whether they are accessing corporate […]

Transportation logistics software has made its way online with hosted versions that promise to give enterprises greater visibility into the processes affecting the delivery of raw and finished goods. Nistevo Corp., Elogex Inc. and Manhattan Associates Inc. are enhancing their respective hosted offerings, which link suppliers; their customers; and the truck, air and rail freight […]

Nortel Networks Corp. has a new vision and several new products for enabling enterprises to deliver voice, data and multimedia over a converged IP network. The goal of the Brampton, Ontario, companys “One Network, a World of Choice” campaign, unveiled Tuesday, will be to create a seamless experience for employees and customers whether they are […]

One ant on the tablecloth would not spoil a picnic, but a thousand ants would. Similarly, a single log file can be easily stored and searched. But businesses in todays Internet age are practically flooded with such an abundance of log file data that their IT systems can be overwhelmed and the data can lose […]

F5 Networks Inc. is looking to solve security and scalability issues on IP networks with a major upgrade to its Big IP traffic management software and hardware. Big IP 4.5, which will be announced next week, can understand a broader array of packet types, including XML, SQL and Session Initiation Protocol. This enables Big IP […]

Inventions may, as the axiom goes, require 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, but getting the fruits of that labor to market can also take a sizable chunk of money. Typically, the money to fund development of IT innovations comes from government sources—take the Internet, for example—or from large companies such as IBM. Enter […]

F5 Networks Inc. looks to solve more security and scalability issues on IP networks with a major upgrade to its Big IP traffic management software and hardware, with the goal of improving overall application availability. A key feature of Big IP 4.5, which was rolled out today, is its ability to look at and understand […]

OuterBay Technologies is looking to extend its application data management software with the acquisition Tuesday of BitByBit International. The acquisition, the value of which was not announced, will enable OuterBay to extend its suite of software for improving enterprise application performance by managing the growth of stored data. OuterBays Active Resource Monitor and LiveArchive technologies […]

3Com Corp. is offering IT departments the capability to provide more network security for laptops and PCs with new networking hardware. The Santa Clara, Calif., company last week unveiled the Embedded Firewall PC Card, updates of its existing Embedded Firewall Desktop and Server PCI cards, and an Embedded Firewall Policy Server to provide central management […]

Embarcadero Technologies Inc. aims to make it easier to manage computing environments that run databases from several vendors. Upgrades to the companys DBArtisan and SQL Debugger tools, to be announced this week, will let database administrators manage and develop applications across IBM, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Sybase Inc. databases, even if they have expertise […]