Matthew Hicks

SAN FRANCISCO–Keynote Systems Inc. is pushing its Internet performance management services deeper into enterprises with plans to provide two performance monitoring and alerting services in July. Keynote, which completed its third Global Internet Performance Conference here this week, announced its Data Pulse and SNMP Adapter services to specifically target the increased need among enterprises to […]

Cisco Systems Inc. is adding new security features to its local area network switches in an attempt to help enterprises prevent internal security threats. Cisco, of San Jose, Calif., announced today a series of IOS system software enhancements to its Cisco Catalyst 3550 and 2950 Series Ethernet switches. They focus on making network administration more […]

Oracle Corp.s push toward more extensive support for Linux may help propel the open-source operating system into broader enterprise use, although some Oracle customers may be slow to commit to running the companys database on Linux. Oracle in an event at its headquarters here last week announced its first certified configurations of the Oracle9i database […]

Networking vendors Nortel Networks Corp. and 3Com Corp. are diving deeper into the metro Ethernet market to help service providers offer the connections to enterprises. Nortel at the Supercomm conference in Atlanta last week expanded its offerings with two new optical Ethernet modules, the OPTera Metro 1400 and 1450, for service providers to deploy Ethernet […]

3Com Corp. is boosting the capacity of its IP PBX system and, in a partnership, is adding an option for customers to use legacy, non-IP telephone handsets on its system. 3Com on Monday is launching an upgrade to the system software for its NBX IP telephony platform. The biggest enhancement is a doubling of the […]

Two days after Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison brushed aside suggestions of layoffs, the software maker is facing renewed projections of cutbacks from Wall Street analysts. The latest analyst, George Gilbert of Credit Suisse First Boston, wrote in a research note on Friday that “industry sources” are saying that Oracle is in the […]

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday said the company is not planning additional layoffs, despite a Wall Street analyst report predicting reductions. The announcement was made at a conference here to formally announce a partnership with Red Hat Inc. and Dell Computer Corp. in which Oracle 9i database […]

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – Oracle Corp. formally launched its latest Linux effort Wednesday, along with partners Red Hat Inc. and Dell Computer Corp. As earlier reported, Oracle is bolstering the use of its 9i database Real Application Clusters (RAC) feature for use on Red Hats Linux Advanced Server and Dell PowerEdge servers. Developers from Oracle […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday rolled out a flurry of enhancements to its enterprise IP telephony products to provide more interoperability to legacy systems and to support the needs of smaller enterprises. Cisco added more interoperability to its Cisco Unity 3.1 unified messaging software by introducing the Cisco Unity Bridge 2.0 option. Officials said the […]

IBM is introducing new tools for its DB2 Universal Database with self-managing capabilities that are part of the companys overall push toward autonomic computing. The two tools, DB2 Recovery Expert and DB2 Performance Expert, are the first to emerge from IBMs SMART (Self Managing and Resource Tuning) database initiative being led by its research labs […]