Jeff Burt

The e-business world is not always kind to suppliers and even less so to those in the small and midsize range. SPS Commerce is hoping to make it a little bit kinder. The St. Paul, Minn., company late last month announced enhancements to its hosted Catalog Service designed to make it easier for large buyers […]

For companies in need of a network monitor and packet analyzer for all versions of Windows, TamoSoft Inc. last week unveiled CommView 2.6. The Christchurch, New Zealand, companys product pinpoints security flaws and LAN bottlenecks and captures and analyzes dial-up or Ethernet connections, officials said. The new version also features an improved user interface for […]

Messaging application service and hosting provider Interliant Inc. this month launched its new managed firewall service, designed to help customers guard against infiltration. The service, based on technology from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., of Redwood City, Calif., offers policy management and quarterly performance audits. Advanced options from Interliant, based in Purchase, N.Y., include redundant […]

With e-mail traffic only expected to increase in the future, enterprises are trying to find ways to control and analyze whats coming in and going out. DYS Analytics Inc., of Wellesley, Mass., has released the latest version of its DYS Control suite, which includes enhancements to its Email Investigator feature. With Version 3.9, Email Investigator […]

Application management startup Dirig Software Inc. continues to rack up the OEM deals, this time with longtime development partner Aprisma Management Technologies. Aprisma, the Cabletron Systems Inc. network management spinoff based in Durham, N.H., will move more aggressively into the application management space with a branded offering based on the Aprisma Proctor application management technology. […]

There are times when transportation companies see demand that outweighs capacity. At the end of the month or the quarter or during the holiday season, many carriers scramble to find other transportation providers to take some of the load. New technology from Logistics.com Inc., of Burlington, Mass., is designed to make that struggle easier. The […]

In the storage industry, capacity matters. With that in mind, Procom Technology Inc. later this month will release the latest version of its DataForce software, which will give enterprises using a jukebox disk caching system an alternative way to support 1,000 disk titles and manage 1 terabyte of storage. Version 3.1 supplies all the benefits […]

Storage over IP is getting a lot of attention from vendors looking to get a foot in the door of the burgeoning SAN space. But whether this emerging technology will lure potential customers to finally deploy a storage area network in the first place is still an open question. Last week at the Storage Networking […]

Starvox Corp. has released a voice-over-IP trunking application that is slated to expand the pool of IP telephony service providers and lower costs for enterprise IP users. The San Jose, Calif., companys VOIP Business Trunking product allows broadband service providers to become IP-based telephony carriers without having to buy Class 5 switches. The offering includes […]

Teamwork Westell Technologies Inc. and Proxim Inc. are teaming up to help small businesses and consumers set up and use digital subscriber line networks. Broadband Westell, of Aurora, Ill., will incorporate Proxims HomeRF wireless home networking product into its new Access 4000 broadband multinetworking platform. Proxim is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. Compatibility The combination will […]