Avaya is introducing four bundles of its gear at VoiceCon Orlando that are designed to address specific business needs: teleworkers, mobile workers, home call-center agents, small businesses. The company is also offering a bundle for branch offices for chain stores and banks.
A new fibre backbone will be deployed across Australia this year as part of Verizon Business’ plan to expand its global telecommunications infrastructure.
Verizon announced last week that it has successfully tested a new peer-to-peer, file-transfer system that the company says could eliminate many of the headaches that P2P systems have traditionally caused ISPs.
Three years ago, network access control was the big buzzword in security.
Citrix Systems, EMC’s VMware unit, Microsoft, Symantec, and other big dogs have shelled out more than US$2 billion on acquisitions related todesktop virtualization in less than two years. But now that they’ve got the technology, it’s not at all clear that customers will buy it.
It’s been said that a server virtualization project is actually an infrastructure redesign project, and certainly in areas related to storage and data protection, the impact can be dramatic both in terms of the volume of data and in the operations to support and protect it. Backup is a particular case in point.
Oracle needs to improve patch management, an area where it’s currently lagging five years behind Microsoft, according to database expert Karel Miko at Czech consultancy DCIT.
Asustek Computer (Asus) predicts the Eee PC it has started selling with Microsoft Windows XP Home edition on board will outsell the original Linux-based version by a ratio of 6 to 4 in the market by the end of this year, a heady prediction considering the Windows machine costs nearly twice as much as the cheapest Linux one.
Red Hat has rolled out a beta-test of the next version of its flagship OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2, with a new kernel and significant changes aimed at server farms and at workstations.
I am not sure who the bigger winner is after this week’s announcement that Iomega rejected EMC’s takeover bid: Iomega or customers. Based on EMC’s past attempts to enter the consumer storage market space, one would think that consumers are better off because Iomega remained independent.