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Genuity , of Woburn, Mass., said Cisco Systems and Verizon Communications have signed on as the first customers for its new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. The offering, Black Rocket Voice, integrates voice and data traffic onto a single, IP network delivering 50 times the capacity of a frame relay system. It’s the latest […]

Handspring continued its push into the enterprise Wednesday with an agreement with Bellvue, Wash.-based Infowave to work together to sell wireless applications to large businesses. Infowave develops middleware and other products that deliver enterprise data to wireless devices. The two companies are not creating new applications but rather announced a sales and marketing agreement to […]

Tier 1 Research has named commercial hosting provider Digex, Inc. the overall leader in service level agreement (SLA) performance in a recent report entitled “How Good is Good Enough?” Tier 1 is a research and consulting firm combining financial and strategic analysis of public and private companies in the Internet infrastructure software and services industry. […]

In a breakthrough that indicates the shape of things to come, SkyCross Inc. said Tuesday that it has developed a single embedded antenna that supports cellular, GPS and wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. The company said the initial version of the antenna supports 800 MHz cellular, 1575 MHz GPS, 1900 MHz PCS and 802.11b […]

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., a Storage Area Networks (SANs)vendor, announced that Morris Taradalsky has joined Brocade as Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Reporting to Greg Reyes, Brocade Chairman and CEO, Taradalsky is responsible for Brocade product development, including all technology, engineering, and research and development functions. With the addition of Taradalsky, […]

Emulex Corp. announced today that Compaq Computer Corp. , has selected the Emulex LightPulse LP9002L Fibre Channel HBA to provide connectivity for the new Compaq StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array. As part of a joint development effort, Compaq has integrated support for Emulex’s driver interface into its management applications and utilities. Emulex’s drivers are fully compatible […]

Bakbone Software, a provider of storage management software, announced today its backup and recovery software Netvault has been validated by Red Hat as part of the Red Hat Certified ISV Partner Program. Netvault is now being distributed on the Linux Application CD that ships with Red Hat Linux 7.2 Professional, to Red Hat customers worldwide. […]

Service providers looking for new opportunities in the IT services market should direct their efforts toward offering solutions that address the specific needs of vertical industries, says a report released by the Yankee Group’s E-Sourcing Strategies research and consulting practice. The Yankee Group Report, ‘Beyond Consolidation: Opportunities in Tomorrow’s xSP Market,’ offers advice for both […]

Group 1 Software has completed the acquisition of assets of Toronto-based Vision-R eTechnologies, a provider of scalable electronic archive and retrieval software solutions. The acquisition adds next- generation, real-time storage, compression and high-speed retrieval of business documents to Group 1’s DOC1 customer communications management suite. Financial terms of the term were not disclosed. The DOC1 […]

webMethods, Inc. has opened a new sales office in Brussels, allowing webMethods to expand its presence in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa). The opening coincides with the appointment of Jean-Michel Van Lippevelde as sales manager, Belux. Van Lippevelde will be responsible for managing webMethods’ sales operations in Belgium and Luxembourg and targeting Global […]

By @NY Staff The guessing over who would succeed Jerry Levin as AOL Time Warner’s chief executive officer is over. Levin announced today that he would retire in May of 2002 and that Richard Parsons, currently the co-chief operating officer, would replace him as CEO. The company also announced the launch of a six month […]

Scale Eight, Inc. this week announced that SwapDrive, a provider of Web-based storage, has chosen Scale Eight’s Global Storage Service to fulfill its primary file storage and global mirroring requirements. “Our customers demand high availability, backup and recovery protection for their critical enterprise information assets, which is why we chose Scale Eight,” said SwapDrive CEO […]