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Intel Consolidation White Paper
Consolidation on virtual servers has gone from a niche market to a massive industry migration that is affecting businesses of all sizes and across all industries. For most companies, the question is not whether to virtualize their server infrastructure, but which solutions to use. – By Robert Shiveley

AdventNet updates NetFlow Analyzer with alerting and enhanced data storage capabilities
AdventNet Inc has announced NetFlow Analyzer 5.0, the bandwidth monitoring tool that now comes with enhanced data storage capabilities, threshold-based alerting and improved IP grouping features.

LBM Systems upgrades AXIAR Output Management Software
LBM Systems has announced a major new release of its AXIAR output management software that adds cross-platform output management software to AS/400 environments.

Quintum Technologies, ISI Communications offer VoIP bundles
 Internet telephony service provider ISI Communications and VoIP innovator Quintum Technologie are offering a VoIP service bundle targeted at small businesses.

LAVA DataTap IP sniffs, monitors or detects bottlenecks
"Sniff," monitor or detect communication bottlenecks, or conduct remote diagnostics of serial data with the recently launched LAVA DataTap-IP.

Curtiss-Wright debuts industry's highest density physical layer switch that supports up to 288 ports
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, the originators of the Physical Layer Switch with more than nine years of experience, have introduced the new 288-port GLX4000 series physical layer switch. 

Kashya introduces its next generation CDP solution for the KBX5000 Data Protection Platform
Kashya is shipping the KBX5000 R2.3 Data Protection Platform, delivering the industry's only integrated DR and CDP solution with complete application integration.

Server Technology launches 'Basic' Power Distribution Unit line
Server Technology has launched a new family of Sentry "Basic" Cabinet Power Distribution Units (PDUs), a family of products that offer an economical solution for reliable power distribution within equipment racks and other data center applications.

SPAMfighter has released Exchange Server spam protection with no false positives
SPAMfighter has released SPAMfighter Exchange Module v. 3.0, a spam-fighting system that increases productivity and optimizes time by effectively eliminating spam from the e-mail stream.

News Indepth

Greater security with IPSec
Secure and efficient communication between computers is becoming increasingly more essential as companies try to use the public network infrastructure for supporting communication between their various sites. – By Swayam Prakasha

Realizing the promise of server virtualization: A service-centric approach to server management
Virtualization is a paradigm-changing technology that is going to affect how IT infrastructure will be managed to ensure cost-effective delivery of end-user services. – By Ronnie Ray

Infrastructure software standardization is the key to data center standardization
A look into the typical data center reveals an increasingly complex infrastructure marked by a mix of operating systems, hardware and applications. – By Joshua Kahn

Small call centers come of age: Workforce management becomes affordable for small contact centers
Over the past couple of years, workforce management (WFM) has been steadily making its way down the call center food chain. – By Drew Robb

Testbeds boost cyber security research
Information technology (IT) testbeds have been used for years to evaluate the utility of cutting-edge technologies and address challenging technical problems.

A conversational storage strategy
"We need a SAN solution." When company executives take the elevator down a few floors to seek out IT professionals on a technology issue, this is often the way in which they deliver their request. – By Robyn Danz

Another one bites the dust
There's no denying the fact that some people are willing to pay a premium for speed. – By Jun Alejo

Delivering the advantages of utility computing today through proactive resource management
Whether referred to as grid computing, utility computing, or capacity on demand, the concept is very appealing to organizations seeking to seamlessly adjust and allocate resources to undertake business opportunities the moment they arise.

MOBILE AND MALICIOUS: Security for mobile devices - Best practices and technologies
Mobile devices such as smartphones, handhelds, and laptops have been an incalculable productivity boon for today's enterprises. – By Sarah Hicks

News

April 2006 Feature Story: Cisco Optimized Edge Routing
This month's article is a follow-up to last month's, where we looked at the basic ideas of Cisco Optimized Edge Routing. In this month's article we'll look at the configuration I used in my lab, and at some actual show command output for OER. – By Peter J. Welcher

Technology leaders to create specification for federating and accessing IT information with a common goal of enabling configuration management databases to draw information from multiple sources
BMC Software, Fujitsu Ltd, HP and IBM announced April 12 plans to create a new interoperability specification designed to enable customers to federate and access information from their complex, multi-vendor IT infrastructures.

Foundry Netrworks' FastIronm switches pass Avaya compliance test
Foundry Networks Inc. has announced that its FastIron SuperX and FastIron Edge product families are compliant with Internet Protocol (IP) telephony solutions from Avaya.

Helvetia Patria Doubles Return on Investment with HP Service-oriented Architecture
HP customer Helvetia Patria, an European insurance company based in Switzerland, has realized significant cost savings, increased profitability and business agility from an HP service-oriented architecture (SOA).

HP awarded $236 million global IT services contract from Avago Technologies
Avago Technologies has awarded HP a $236 million services contract to provide global information technology services and operations management.

IBM extends enhanced data security to consumer electronics products
IBM has announced a new technology designed to increase the security of consumer products, medical devices, defense systems and digital media.

48 Schools Named Finalists For Intel And Scholastic Schools Of Distinction Awards
Forty-eight schools have been named as finalists for the Intel and Scholastic Schools of Distinction Awards.

Unisys to lead dialogue on new definition of security at 15th World Congress on IT
At the upcoming 2006 World Congress on Information Technology Joseph W. McGrath will lead a dialogue of government and private security experts who will discuss how to redefine security.

Missouri State University joins IBM in initiative to prepare students for jobs of the future
Missouri State University has announced that the university has joined IBM's Academic Initiative to better prepare students to be future leaders in technology and business.

Sun announces availability of x64 servers and workstations powered by fastest AMD Opteron processors
Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced the availability of Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Ultra Workstations powered by the newest, highest-performing single-core AMD Opteron Model 156, 256 and 856 processors.

Sun announces open source enterprise development tool project
Sun Microsystems Inc., the creator and leading advocate of Java technology, plans to open source major elements of the Sun Java Studio Enterprise — an enterprise-class development tool — as a project on NetBeans.org.

Lucent Technologies' Base Station Router receives CTIA Emerging Technology Award
The Lucent Technologies Base Station Router (BSR) product was selected as the first place winner of a CTIA WIRELESS 2006 Wireless Emerging Technologies (E-tech) Award in the category of "Most Innovative In-Building Solution."

Lucent Technologies appoints Elizabeth Hackenson as chief information officer
Lucent Technologies has announced that Elizabeth Hackenson, 45, will join the company as its chief information officer.

Nortel names IBM's Dietmar Wendt president of Global Services
Dietmar Wendt will join Nortel as president of Global Services effective May 1.

HP simplifies 'one-to-one' computing solutions for schools
HP has announced a simplified approach for school districts planning to deploy one-to-one teaching and learning programs using computer technology.

America's 'FutureReady' Education Visionaries Announced
Three forward-thinking U.S. K-12 schools — chosen in a nationwide search conducted by Dell, Microsoft and Intel as part of the FutureReady program — each will receive technology and services with approximate retail value of $250,000 to make their education technology vision a reality.

IP networks help deliver 21st-Century education in 'Classrooms without Walls'
Cisco Systems highlighted three schools that serve as models for Cisco Connected Learning for Schools.

California K-12 educational institutions install Cisco Integrated Services Routers and Unified Communications power networks
Cisco Systems announced that two major educational institutions in the Northern California bay area have upgraded their networks with Cisco integrated services routers and the Cisco Unified Communications system.

HP funds One-to-One Institute, seeks additional supporters
HP and the One-to-One Institute have partnered to launch a national effort to help transform schools into high-performing, student-centered and technology-rich learning environments.

Air China chooses Unisys Cargo System to further strengthen its cargo operations
Air China has chosen the Unisys Logistics Management System (LMS) to manage its air cargo operations.

Avocent acquires assets of Agilent Technologies' remote IT management product line
Avocent Corp. and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that they have signed an agreement for Avocent to purchase assets and to license technology used by Agilent in its remote management business.

Unisys showing momentum in IT outsourcing, listed in "Leaders" quadrant in analyst reports
Unisys Corporation announced March 28 that it has been listed in the "Leaders" quadrant in two recently released Magic Quadrant reports on outsourcing services providers from leading industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc.

Sun launches worldwide consumer site for mobile Java technology-based entertainment
Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced the launch of http://mobile.java.com.

Nortel targets services growth with new offerings, simplified packages
Nortel reinforced its commitment to growing its services business by unveiling a simplification of its integrated services and a series of new commercial services offerings.

Dell, Novell simplify managing Linux in the enterprise
Dell and Novell have developed a tool ever for Dell customers to centrally manage Linux deployments across the enterprise.

IBM frees 'Billy Goat' to combat worm and virus threats
IBM announced new intrusion detection capabilities to help clients detect, prevent and analyze hacker attacks.

Limelight Networks buys Foundry NetIron XMR IP/MPLS routers for its Content Delivery Network centers
Limelight Networks Inc. will deploy the NetIron XMR IP/MPLS routers in all its Content Delivery Network (CDN) centers to scale its massive, globally distributed peering and direct broadband connectivity worldwide.

Cisco announces next-generation application delivery and acceleration solution, the Cisco Application Control Engine
Cisco Systems has announced the availability of its next-generation application delivery solution, the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE).

April 2006 Feature Story: Cisco Optimized Edge Routing
Cisco Optimized Edge Routing - This feature artical is available for download (Adobe pdf) - This feature artical is available for download (Adobe pdf) - http://www.enterprisenetworksandservers.com/pdfs/Welcher.April.15.pdf – By Peter J. Welcher

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