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AT&T expands services in Middle East AT&T is pumping up its services in the Middle East by expanding its network in the region and building up its local presence there, the company announced Monday. Open source storage gets a virtual lift It has been a while since I last discussed Coraid, but two announcements the company made at LinuxWorld earlier this month have me thinking about AoE (ATA over Ethernet) these days.  August 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT IT at Beijing Olympic Games to cost $400 million The price tag for IT and communications at the world's biggest sporting event will run to around $400 million and use the expertise of thousands of IT managers and engineers. August 15, 4:22 a.m. PDT Cisco sees Web 2.0 boom after posting strong Q4 Cisco Systems expects Web 2.0 to drive a growth curve similar to the Internet expansion of the 1990s, accelerating the company's revenue growth, chairman and CEO John Chambers said Tuesday as Cisco announced strong fourth-quarter numbers. August 8, 5:04 a.m. PDT IBM, Cisco ready codeveloped management software IBM and Cisco Systems plan to release a jointly developed product in July as part of an expansion of their existing alliance around telecommunications network management and service assurance, the companies said Thursday. June 14, 5:12 a.m. PDT Microsoft gets into VoIP ... and confuses us Impenetrable questions I've been pondering: The difference between acute dyslexia and the way Linux programmers name their software. How Apple Store sales personnel differ from those at the Clearasil human testing lab. Whether the proliferation of Law & Order: X and Ebola virus outbreaks are somehow connected. The difference between Office Communications Server and Microsoft Response Point. March 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Your Web site’s secret weapon Kenexa, a global provider of talent-hiring and-retention services and software, had a serious customer-satisfaction problem. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST ISP head convicted in E-Rate fraud A U.S. federal jury convicted the former owner and president of ATE Tel Solutions Inc., a telecommunications and Internet service provider, on seven of nine counts of wire fraud in a scheme to defraud the E-Rate program, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday. February 12, 9:24 a.m. PST VeriSign invests in DNS improvements VeriSign plans to invest $100 million over three years to expand tenfold the DNS (domain name system) infrastructure it operates for the .com and .net top-level domains. February 8, 8:09 a.m. PST Accelerate your 802.1x rollout During the course of our NAC reviews, we also tested Cloudpath Networks' XpressConnect. XpressConnect is a small, browser-delivered agent that can reconfigure wireless access profiles and 802.1x supplicants. Placed on a captured portal page for guests or staff, it automatically configures systems for access to your 802.1x network, be it wired or wireless. As a result, 802.1x authentication is much easier to deploy than has been the case in the past. February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Cabling blunder fouls up DoD network Back in the days of RG-58 Ethernet co-ax and Novell NetWare servers, I worked for a small networking firm. One of the VPs had friends at the Pentagon, and one day — to everyone’s amazement — we landed a lucrative contract to install a network for a military pay-and-benefits facility at the Department of Defense (DoD). This was supposed to be a ground-up installation, everything from pulling cable to configuring the server, setting up all the stations, and training the user community. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST As-needed networking rollouts pay off Networking buzzwords have had little impact on the core of most infrastructures in the past few years. Yet Gigabit, VoIP, and IPSes continue to receive attention, with many enterprises planning 2007 deployments. Unless absolutely necessary, however, these line items will prove to be bloated investments. January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Ericsson scoops up Redback for $2.1 billion LM Ericsson has agreed to acquire Redback Networks Inc., a maker of carrier edge routers, for US$2.1 billion. December 20, 4:08 a.m. PST ICANN sees progress on revamped DNS The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in Sao Paolo this week and made progress on a project to expand domain names to more languages and alphabets. December 8, 10:29 a.m. PST Trouble in homicide: a network detective story Several years ago i found myself working for a major metropolitan police department, mainly building specialty databases. All the databases were stored on a single PC in the division office. It wasn’t the best way to do it, but it worked. And it provided the illusion of security. November 21, 3:00 a.m. PST Consolidate, outsource, or both? Datacenter consolidation is the mega-solution for bringing IT costs, man-agement, and disaster recovery under control, but depending on a company’s goals and size, outsourcing can also play a useful complementary role. “Outsourcing should definitely be part of the decision process,” says Michael Bell, research vice president at Gartner. “Once you make the decision to consolidate or relocate, it then becomes a question of whether you should build a new datacenter, buy one, lease one, or outsource it.” November 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Consolidation power tools Can software management tools help bring your consolidation initiative under control? It depends. Certainly solutions abound that can help with one of the first steps: identifying and analyzing the hardware, software, and infrastructure you already have in place. November 20, 3:00 a.m. PST Internet forum participants clash The four-day United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was heavy on talk, light on action -- in line with its mandate to give interested parties a global stage to express their views on the future of the Internet. November 2, 9:43 a.m. PST Cisco CEO preaches networks, collaboration John Chambers, the chief executive officer of networking giant Cisco Systems, was in fine evangelical mode Tuesday, laying out his company's vision of a future where intelligent networks power IT and collaboration is the key driver for businesses. October 25, 4:53 a.m. PDT Universal service funds not being spent Governments around the world are holding on to billions of dollars collected for their universal service funds that should be spent to build out telecommunications networks, an industry group said Tuesday, calling for the funds to be eliminated over the long term. October 17, 7:43 a.m. PDT Lessons from the verticals Every industry presents unique challenges, where IT must marshal more than the usual chunk of resources to solve extreme headaches. That may mean walking out to the edge of grid computing to garner greater compute performance, or it may involve management challenges such as accommodating a mobile workforce or connecting hundreds of far-flung offices. The greater the problem to overcome, the greater the potential to learn from successful solutions. August 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT Dance to senator saying 'Net is 'series of tubes' Commentary is spreading across the Web after U.S. Senator Ted Stevens described the Internet as a "series of tubes" during a debate on net neutrality June 28. July 14, 8:37 a.m. PDT Alcatel: Lucent merger on track Alcatel SA expects to see a 7.5 percent year-on-year increase in revenue for the second quarter, in line with earlier projections, the company announced late Monday. Its merger with U.S. counterpart Lucent Technologies Inc. is also on track, with completion expected by year-end, it said. July 11, 4:36 a.m. PDT Lucent warns of lower Q3 revenue, profit Lucent Technologies Inc. expects to report declines in revenue and profit for its fiscal third quarter ended June 30, the company said Monday. July 11, 4:12 a.m. PDT ICANN settles feud with country-code TLD operator The company that manages the U.K.'s top-level domain has struck a truce with the U.S.-based organization responsible for overseeing Internet domain names, cooling ongoing disagreements over administrative control of the Internet. July 3, 9:17 a.m. PDT U.S. invites comments on ICANN contract A branch of the U.S. Commerce Department is accepting comments on the fate of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that supervises Internet domain names. July 3, 9:12 a.m. PDT MS exec walks plank, anti-piracy program yanked If your Internet access seems sluggish, just blame slow readers at the National Security Agency. Salon.com reports the existence of a double-super-secret room at AT&T’s St. Louis network operations center, which the NSA could allegedly use to tap into big chunks of U.S. Net traffic. I understand the room is behind a moat filled with sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads. Meanwhile, spooks are also allegedly harvesting info from social networking sites like MySpace, according to New Scientist, but they’re just doing that to meet girls. (Memo to NSA: That’s just a joke, guys. Don’t hurt me.) June 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT Franchising the energy web I’m already so depressed about the sorry state of our planet’s energy systems that I’m afraid Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth would just send me over the edge. Oh, I’ll probably relent and go see the movie, but in my case the ex-Veep will be preaching to the choir. I don’t need to be convinced any more than I already am that we’re in for a rough ride. What I need, instead, are hopeful signs that we’ll be able to engineer our way out of the mess we’re in. June 21, 3:00 a.m. PDT FIFA network tackles tough challenge The World Cup soccer tournament taking place in Germany is not only the planet's largest sporting event; during the four weeks of play through July 9, it's also home to what many experts say is the world's biggest communications network built for a single event. June 19, 4:35 a.m. PDT Slow progress for 802.11n standards The IEEE 802.11n standard has been three years in the making, and from the looks of it, it has at least another year to go. That’s a shame because it offers a lot of benefits, including higher throughput than the current Wi-Fi standard -- about 120Mbps in the real world -- and 50 percent longer range. Plus, because it uses multiple antennas that can stitch together a fractured signal, it eliminates a lot of spots where there might be drop-offs indoors. June 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Mark Goodge Mark Goodge, CTO of the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) understands the importance of technology. He’d better: As a health care enclave for all four branches of the U.S. armed forces, NNMC spans 5,000 network users across 5,000 miles in five states. But technology isn’t the only issue on his mind, or even the foremost one. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Russell Daniels As CTO and vice president of HP’s software business, Russell Daniels has a service-oriented perspective normally associated with applications -- rather than, say, his flagship OpenView product. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Bob DeRodes Bob DeRodes used to be a long-snapping center, but he says he missed his shot at the NFL. Instead, he became executive vice president and CIO of The Home Depot. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: Keeping track of tools the wireless way “Who has that damn cart now?” During a network build-out for a large New York commercial real estate manager a few years back, that phrase got shouted often enough to become a stress mantra. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: Keeping thin clients synced from coast to coast I once consulted for a medical-records company that was rolling out thin clients to nearly 50 offices around the United States. The goal was to build a large Citrix MetaFrame farm over WAN links to the main datacenter, which was located outside Boston, providing a Windows desktop for every user without dealing with hardware problems at each site. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: Network auditing on a shoestring What do you do when the auditors are breathing down your neck, wanting to see an exhaustive report on the Windows network security of a 2,000-user network across eight sites? That’s easy. Break out a text editor and start writing some Perl. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: Air-gap networking for the price of a pair of sneakers Federal IT managers face troubling times when it comes to synchronizing an air-gap network. And just in case you’re thinking “air gap” refers to a new brand of sneakers … well, you’re almost right. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT ConSentry locks down the network Traditionally, enterprise networks have been built on trust: Anyone connected is assumed to be authorized because they have to be on the premises. But the growing prevalence of wireless networks, remote access, and nonstaff workers have turned networks into easy targets. “The LAN is now the new DMZ,” says Tom Barsi, CEO of ConSentry. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews Sun Solaris 10 to integrate ZFS and PostgreSQL Sun announced a June release of the solaris 10 operating system that will incorporate ZFS 1.0, Sun’s new 128-bit file system, and the open source PostgreSQL database. ZFS automatically detects and corrects data corruption and eliminates the need for a volume manager. PostgreSQL will help leverage Solaris’ predictive self-healing, OS containers, and DTrace (dynamic tracing) technologies. Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Peer-to-peer device networking takes shape The concept of SEDs (service-enabled devices) started way back in the ‘80s with something called tuple spaces, and later took shape as Jini nder the guidance of Sun Microsystems. Jini came about when Bill Joy, Sun’s chief scientist, imagined a peer-to-peer world where every device could talk to every other device: “Hello, I’m a color printer. This is my feature set and here are my printer drivers. Would you like to access me?” May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Load balancers from F5 Networks and Zeus Technology tip the scales Load balancers used to be fairly simple, distributing user requests from the Internet to a group of servers instead of just one. Between the drive to differentiate themselves and the increasing sophistication of Web sites and enterprise intranets, current load balancers add a plethora of additional features, from SSL off-loading to Web application acceleration to content inspection and security filters that guard against hackers exploiting known vulnerabilities to gain control of Web servers or applications. May 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT In Brief: UTStarcom COO resigns UTStarcom said Thursday its chief operating officer has resigned and will leave the company in early May. April 14, 5:05 a.m. PDT Stupid user tricks: Eleven IT horror stories No matter how hard we pray, how many chickens we sacrifice, how often we chant naked by moonlight, every network is at one time or other exposed to the ultimate technology risk: users. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT The long road to RFID interoperability Software isn’t the only factor driving wider adoption of RFID. Perhaps the largest single enabler has been the emergence of Gen2 -- officially known as the EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID Protocol for Communications -- which is the standard protocol for EPC (Electronic Product Code) tag transmissions. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT Amid massive renovation, Nortel eyes spin offs Nortel Networks Corp. will closely examine all of its product categories and consider dropping out or seeking a partnership or joint venture anywhere it doesn't hold or forecast a 20 percent market share or better, President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Zafirovski said Thursday. April 7, 9:48 a.m. PDT HGC opens Ethernet link from Hong Kong to China Hutchison Global Communications (HGC) has launched an Ethernet service that connects Hong Kong with Beijing and Guangdong province to meet growing corporate demand for cross-border networking connections with mainland China, the company said. April 7, 5:03 a.m. PDT When starting a new branch office, don't forget the wiring One of the most overlooked aspects of remote-office builds is the wiring. Servers, racks, power, and cooling should top the list, but never assume that the building’s wiring is up to par. Many corporate office parks have been around since the days of Cat 3 cabling and are still using that copper for in-building transit, demarc extensions, and even LAN connections within office suites. Obviously, you’re not going to be happy with network performance if every patch panel is Cat 3, although you can ride phones on it if you must. April 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Building the branch office from the ground up Inevitably, the call comes in at 4 p.m.: problems at a remote site. The network seems OK, but one server is completely inaccessible. One switch is pingable but isn’t answering a Telnet connection. There’s no IT staff at the site, and this problem has caused all work to cease. Looks like a long night for the admins. April 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Virtualization fever at LinuxWorld Expo The most prominent names in open source descend on Boston this week for the annual LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Highlights of the show will include a new Mobile and Embedded conference track and a Grid Solution Showcase, but the hottest trend seems to be virtualization, with several new offerings set to debut throughout the week. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT Collapse of Check Point/Sourcefire deal raises questions Faced with resistance from the U.S. government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), Israeli software company Check Point Software Technologies put its $225 million offer to purchase IPS (intrusion prevention software) vendor Sourcefire on hold March 23, raising the specter of heightened government oversight of mergers and acquisitions. April 3, 3:00 a.m. PDT EDS gets $3B U.S. Navy contract extension The multibillion dollar outsourcing contract between the U.S. Department of the Navy and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) has been extended through September 2010, marking another chapter in this project's long and often troubled history. March 27, 9:53 a.m. PST Alcatel-Lucent could boost enterprise profile A merger between Lucent Technologies and Alcatel could boost the profile of products Alcatel sells to enterprises in the U.S., analysts said on Friday. March 24, 8:18 a.m. PST Lucent and Alcatel in merger talks Faced with a challenging industry environment, telecommunication equipment makers Lucent Technologies and Alcatel are discussing a possible merger, according to a statement released by the two companies. March 24, 4:02 a.m. PST Scaling a federated identity infrastructure Different kinds of organizations approach the problem of scaling a federated identity implementation in different ways. When you’re federating with one or two partners, hammering out the legal arrangements and assigning risk and liability is done one partner at a time. Even if technology standards provide universal system interoperability, the lawyers are likely to approach each agreement as a one-off task. Let’s call this model “peer-to-peer federation.” March 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco to let partner software, services bloom Cisco Systems wants its channel partners to run off with everything it learns about providing professional services. March 15, 4:11 a.m. PST Cisco pushes channel toward one-stop shopping Cisco Systems Inc. will make its certified channel partners broaden their own areas of expertise as the networking vendor itself expands the role of networks, Cisco was set to announce this week at its annual partner conference. March 14, 9:02 a.m. PST Germany joins calls to end Google's "free lunch" The chief executive of Deutsche Telekom became the latest head of a major telco to call for Web companies, such as Google and Yahoo, to help pay for the billions of dollars required to build and maintain high-speed Internet infrastructure. February 24, 4:21 a.m. PST Broadcom aims for clearer calls on crowded networks Broadcom on Tuesday announced a technology that could result in clearer calls for mobile users on swamped networks. February 14, 9:20 a.m. PST 3Com appoints new CEO 3Com on Friday named R. Scott Murray its new chief executive officer, replacing retiring CEO Bruce Claflin, who announced earlier this month that he would step down after five years of helming the networking vendor. January 27, 8:36 a.m. PST Lucent reports loss of $104M on revenue of $2B Lucent Technologies reported a net loss of $104 million for the quarter ended Dec. 31, with revenue from products and services both down from a year earlier. January 24, 6:10 a.m. PST Update: Tokyo Stock Exchange mulls earlier system upgrade An increase in trading capacity at the Tokyo Stock Exchange may happen earlier than planned after problems keeping up with volume forced a shut down earlier this week, the market operator said Friday. January 20, 7:34 a.m. PST Lucent lowers revenue forecast, appoints COO Lucent Technologies has lowered its annual revenue forecast for 2006 following a poor start to the year caused by weak sales in the U.S. and China, it announced Friday. January 13, 5:28 a.m. PST Virtualized storage, real rewards As senior director of enterprise technology operations at Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a prison management firm that handles more than 60 facilities, Brad Wood faces several challenges. His group manages approximately 100TB of data -- including inmate medical records, operational records, e-mail, and so forth -- across four Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) storage arrays in two datacenters. Because of federal and state rules, much of the company’s data is mirrored three or four times to keep it accessible in case of failure. Adding to the complexity, Wood buys his hardware based on current price and performance, so he has a mix of suppliers. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST IT will give up control of the network As we look at all the changes taking place on the Internet during the past several years, I think we can boil it down to two simple observations. First, the volume of traffic is increasing exponentially: E-mail, IM, and RSS all mean more connections. Second, each connection is moving a great deal more data, including multimedia, voice, and video. January 10, 3:00 a.m. PST A first look at Windows Compute Cluster Server It used to be that building a usable compute cluster took plenty of money, skills, and space in the datacenter. Although creating the actual applications that run on the cluster can still be difficult, nowadays building a Linux-based cluster is generally quite simple. Commercial and open source clustering packages abound with features, open protocols, and streamlined installs. No surprise, then, that Microsoft wants a piece of this potentially lucrative market. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST High-performance computing: Supercharging the enterprise Merlin Securities, a new prime brokerage providing trading, financing, portfolio analysis, and reporting for multibillion-dollar hedge funds, needed a competitive edge. Its larger rivals, such as Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and UBS, had the advantage of expensive mainframes that could consolidate and analyze millions of trades each day and return reports via batch processing the next morning that measured performance on a monthly basis. So Merlin outclassed its competitors by returning trade performance information in near real time with performance measured on a daily basis and performance attribution on multiple levels, including in comparison to other securities in a market sector, numerous benchmarks, and other traders in the firm. What’s more, it did it using an inexpensive compute cluster made up of four dual-processor Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers. January 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Silver Peak squeezes into the WAN game As the WAN optimization market continues to grow and evolve, new and established vendors are developing systems that accelerate previously ignored varieties of network traffic. One promising newcomer is Silver Peak Systems, whose breadth of application support impressed me in a recent demo. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Managing out-of-band management Service processors are the key to successful high-density rack applications, and they’re just as handy for managing systems in the branch office, where intensive monitoring of each box or blade must take the place of being there. Lights-out management isn’t just for datacenters anymore. December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Hardware isn't enough IT buyers live in a golden age of commodity hardware. Processors, servers, networks, storage, you name it: Every segment of the IT stack keeps getting faster, cheaper, and more commoditized. No surprise, then, that IT managers often resort to a checkbook-waving strategy, throwing hardware at every IT problem, from a balky WAN to an application speed bump. November 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft: Community computing is on the way Forget personal computing. A new world of "community computing" is knocking on the front door, offering unparalleled communication opportunities and challenges alike. That's how Jonathan Murray, Microsoft's chief technology officer for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, envisions a new technological environment that will soon confront users, suppliers, and governments alike. November 22, 6:21 a.m. PST Moving toward mesh networks The dream of broadband connectivity that’s as ubiquitous as the air you breathe still is not reality, and perhaps it would be a cruel pun to tell you not to hold your breath. November 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Annan: A summit of solutions for the digital divide If the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva two years ago was one of vision, the second phase in Tunis, Tunisia, should be one of action. That was the key message in a speech given Wednesday by United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan at the opening of the Tunis summit. November 16, 10:15 a.m. PST WSIS: ITU leader says talks remain 'hot' Hot was the word used by Yoshio Utsumi, secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), on Tuesday to describe not only the room in which he was holding a news conference but also the talks taking place next door on the contentious issues of Internet governance and funding at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. November 15, 9:54 a.m. PST WSIS: US envoy faces hot debate Many governments, including the influential European Union, are demanding more say in the way the Internet is managed. The U.S., which gave birth to the Internet, appears determined not to hand over its baby. November 14, 9:41 a.m. PST Nortel earnings hit by restructuring Nortel Networks reported Wednesday an increase in revenue for the third quarter but an overall loss, citing restructuring costs and a penalty stemming from a refiling of the company's tax returns. November 2, 7:59 a.m. PST Cellular data services ramp up If you’re susceptible to advertising sales pitches, you’d best -- like Ulysses’ crew -- plug up your ears. Otherwise, you will soon hear the siren call from the cell phone carriers pitching their newest data services. November 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Sun, Alcatel sign deal to work on core network gear Alcatel SA will incorporate more technology from Sun Microsystems Inc. into its products for mobile phone networks, the companies announced Tuesday. October 25, 9:44 a.m. PDT Ericsson to buy most of Marconi for $2.1B Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Tuesday said it agreed to buy parts of struggling telecommunications equipment vendor Marconi for £1.2 billion ($2.1 billion). October 25, 7:12 a.m. PDT Cisco expands carrier Ethernet lineup Cisco Systems is getting ready to sell more gear into the burgeoning market for Ethernet services from carriers, preparing to introduce new switches and hardware modules at the Telecom 05 show in Las Vegas this week. October 25, 4:29 a.m. PDT Cisco considers manufacturing products in India Cisco Systems is considering having its products manufactured in India, the company announced Friday. October 21, 4:11 a.m. PDT Putting AJAX to work It's easy to see why AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) has captured the imaginations of so many Web developers. For the first time, browser-based UIs are rich and full-featured enough to do away with so-called thick-client desktop applications. October 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cingular poised to launch HSDPA Cingular Wireless LLC is poised to expand its 3G (third-generation) services in the U.S. as early as Nov. 1. October 14, 9:59 a.m. PDT Nokia to set up 3G joint venture in China Nokia has signed an agreement with China Putian to establish a joint-venture company to develop and manufacture telecommunications equipment for 3G (third-generation) networks based on China's homegrown 3G technology, TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), and WCDMA (Wideband CDMA), the two partners announced Thursday. October 14, 4:19 a.m. PDT Cisco gears up to accelerate applications Two families of network appliances announced Thursday and now shipping from Cisco Systems Inc. may help enterprises reach out to customers and branch workers more quickly and efficiently. October 13, 5:51 p.m. PDT BellSouth, Sprint Nextel to link national data network BellSouth has teamed up with Sprint Nextel to provide nationwide data services across the U.S. in a move that could help BellSouth compete with other carriers that are merging to create giant companies. October 10, 8:37 a.m. PDT VeriSign buys Weblogs.com for $2.3 million VeriSign has bought network infrastructure that underlies key services for bloggers from owner Scripting News for $2.3 million in cash, the companies announced Friday. October 7, 5:49 a.m. PDT ISP spat blacks out Net connections A financial dispute between two major Internet backbones has led to dropped traffic between their networks, a high-stakes game of chicken that's angering customers affected by the network disruptions. October 6, 9:56 a.m. PDT IT experiencing growth in banking industry but efficiency rules Financial institutions are modestly increasing their IT departments after the boom days of the late 1990s but demanding much more efficiency from pricey infrastructure, a senior vice president for Sun Microsystems said Tuesday at a financial technology conference. September 27, 8:29 a.m. PDT VeriSign develops tools for wireless roaming Mobile users typically move among multiple networks: a wired DSL connection at home, a Wi-Fi hot spot at the airport, a landline connection at a hotel, and 3G service in between. Today, users must use a connection manager to log off one service and log on to another manually. Future smart clients, however, will be able to detect available networks and switch among them based on which networks are fastest, which are cheapest, and which are most secure for business use. September 22, 1:00 p.m. PDT London is global Internet bandwidth capital London is the biggest international hub city on the Internet, according to a report by research company Telegeography, which also said international Internet traffic is growing faster in Latin America than in any other region. September 8, 5:11 p.m. PDT Living in an all-Internet Protocol world Hossein Eslambolchi is a man of many titles. He is president of AT&T Global Networking Technology Services and AT&T Labs, as well as CIO and CTO of AT&T proper. When Hossein talks, I listen. And what he talks about in late August is the inevitable move to 100 percent IP networking. August 30, 4:00 a.m. PDT LG, Nortel sign telecom network gear venture deal LG Electronics and Nortel Networks sealed the deal Wednesday on a telecommunications network equipment joint venture that was first announced in January of this year, they said. August 17, 6:28 a.m. PDT Nortel doubles Q2 earnings Nortel Network more than doubled earnings in the second quarter as the Canadian supplier of telecommunications equipment benefited from higher sales of its enterprise and wireless gear. August 8, 6:41 a.m. PDT Open source identity A complete identity management solution comprises a number of components. As such, it would be difficult for any single open source project to offer a plug-and-play identity management system. There are, however, a number of projects that offer components of such a system, particularly in the area of federation and SSO (single sign-on). August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Open source directory With more and more companies investigating capabilities such as identity management, SSO (single sign-on), and automated provisioning, directory services are fast becoming a vital component of network infrastructures. So far, however, no open source project has gained as much traction in this area as Apache enjoys in the Web server market. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Like Google for log files As much as one system log file can tell you, correlating data from multiple logs can tell you a lot more -- whether you're troubleshooting a Web application, looking for network bottlenecks, or chasing down a network security incident. A new product from startup Splunk Technology, aptly named Splunk, takes a lightweight, Web-search-style approach to all-purpose log analysis. August 8, 5:00 a.m. PDT Cisco mulls acquiring Nokia, report says Internet equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. is interested in acquiring Nokia Corp., the world largest manufacturer of mobile phones, according to several media reports citing the Sunday Business newspaper. August 8, 3:58 a.m. PDT Lucent gets subpoenas from US regulators Lucent Technologies has received subpoenas from U.S. federal agencies in relation to two separate investigations, the company disclosed Friday in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. August 5, 4:09 p.m. PDT Sales rise at Siemens, but telecoms drags down profits Siemens reported an increase in net sales but a drop in net income for the second quarter on Thursday. Income was dragged down by lackluster performance in its Communications division, which manufactures telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment. July 28, 5:09 a.m. PDT Sun to lay off 1,000 staff Sun Microsystems expects to lay off around 1,000 staff at a cost of about $100 million as part of the company's ongoing cost-cutting strategy, according to Sun's chief financial officer. July 27, 8:09 a.m. PDT > Networking |
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