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D.C. Tech Outlook Promising

The Washington metropolitan area is experiencing its share of downsizing in the technology industry, but researchers say the outlook is good.The suburban region south...

Honest, But Slow

Earthlink, the second-largest Net service provider, may be No. 2 for a reason. The companys Atlanta servers go down more than occasionally, leaving DSL...

Heading Off Hack Attacks

While many security products such as intrusion detection and anti-virus technology concentrate on identifying and alerting administrators to attacks after theyve taken place, several...

Alcatel Speaks Up

Telecom equipment giant Alcatel is expected to announce plans to deploy Voice-over-Digital Subscriber Lines this week, likely giving the technology a jump-start.DSL is used...

Andersen Tackles Management Services

Arthur Andersen LLP last week quietly kicked off an MSP offering designed to let customers offload network monitoring and management responsibilities.The new monthly subscription...

Cisco Earnings Disappoint; Weak in Optical Products

The dominant enterprise router and switch vendor, Cisco Systems, will have to field new optical and other products to return to the hyper growth...

The Dilbert LAN

Iona Technologies Wanted a gigabit LAN that would allow it to easily relocate systems and add users without having to continually rerun cable. So...

Make a Splash

We told you a while back that a tsunami was headed our way. Well, its here.Many vendors and analysts predict that converged data and...

F5 Load Balancer Farms Power on the Web

F5 Networks Inc.s Big-IP HA controller load balancer makes Web farms of heterogeneous commodity servers a viable alternative to expensive big-iron servers and hard-to-manage...

Reaching Out to Users Is a Hands-on Job

Even in the hands-off world of outsourced IT management, sometimes, theres just no substitute for being there. In an effort to better reach out...