Matthew Hicks

3Com Corp. this week launched a new LAN switch as it continues its push further back into core enterprise networking. The Santa Clara, Calif., company announced on Monday the 3Com Switch 4050, a Layer 2 and Layer 3 LAN core switch. It provides twice as many copper Gigabit ports than does 3Coms comparable core switch, […]

Quest Software Inc. this week will roll out new versions of its SharePlex database tools to assist database administrators in replicating Oracle Corp. database clusters. SharePlex for RAC/OPS (Real Application Clusters in Oracle9i and Oracle Parallel Server) 4.2, enables administrators to create a redundant version of a clustered Oracle database, said officials of the Irvine, […]

Many of the companies that added support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet to their enterprise switches in the past year are now readying products that will increase the 10G port density in their product lines. The development should enable enterprises to more easily connect campuses or buildings on a 10G LAN backbone and to aggregate Gigabit […]

Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it expanded its optical line with an offering that allows enterprises to aggregate as many as 40 data connections over a single wavelength. The Cisco ONS 15530, set to be available in early July, is a DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) solution targeted for large enterprises managing metropolitan area […]

Aiming to make database archiving easier for enterprises, Princeton Softech Inc. is planning to launch new application-specific versions of its archiving software later this year. Princeton Softech has been focusing on what it calls “active archiving” through its Active Archive Solutions, which provides the ability to not only archive raw database data but also include […]

Oracle Corp. on Tuesday reported that its fourth quarter earnings dropped 23.3 percent from a year ago, as the company continued to face slack software sales. For the quarter ended May 31, the Redwood Shores, Calif., software maker recorded a net income of $656 million on revenues of $2.8 billion. A year earlier, Oracle earned […]

If theres any doubt that enterprises are facing a data explosion, consider the next major threshold on the horizon for large databases. Within 18 months or so, experts say, a company or organization somewhere in the world will reach a petabyte of storage for a database. More than likely, it will be for a massive […]

Native XML database developers X-Hive Corp., Excelon Corp., Ipedo Inc. and Software AG are adding more support in upcoming releases for emerging standards for such functions as querying. Much of the focus for the developers with their latest crop of XML databases is on bolstering querying capabilities through the XQuery XML data retrieval standard. X-Hive, […]

3Com Corp., Citel Technologies Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. are attempting to remove one of the biggest stumbling blocks that enterprises face when moving toward IP telephony: the lack of interoperability between old proprietary systems and IP-based ones. 3Com, of Santa Clara, Calif., last week became the first IP PBX vendor to support Citels recently […]

The 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard, after three years of work, has become official and is helping to pave the way for broader adoption of the networking technology. The IEEE Standards Association Standards Board last week ratified the IEEE 802.3ae specification for 10 Gigabit Ethernet during a meeting in Piscataway, N.J., announced the 10 Gigabit Ethernet […]