Matthew Hicks

Oracle Corp., while holding onto its top position in the relational database market, saw its lead slip in 2001 as rivals IBM and Microsoft Corp. made significant gains, according to the most recent market numbers from International Data Corp. IDC, of Framingham, Mass., this week announced that the database market in 2001 continued to solidify […]

Avaya Inc. on Wednesday shipped a converged voice and data solution that delivers large-enterprise voice and data capabilities to small- and mid-sized companies. Called Avaya IP Office, the offering is being expanded into the U.S. market after initially launching in Western Europe in January, said Avaya officials, in Basking Ridge, N.J. Avaya IP Office is […]

A new network management product from startup Packet Design isnt happy just reporting on network problems inside a router or along specific links. It seeks to diagnose a broader sweep of networking woes. Route Explorer, a network management device launched this week by the Mountain View, Calif., company, works at a higher layer of the […]

Networking vendor Juniper Networks Inc. has agreed to purchase rival Unisphere Networks Inc. for $740 million in cash and stock, the companies announced today. Juniper, of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Unisphere, of Westford, Mass., both target the service provider and telecom carrier space with their Internet routers. Juniper officials say that the two companies product lines […]

IP networks, long lacking the high availability of their voice and data counterparts, are being improved to recover from failures more quickly and to reduce packet loss. Cisco Systems Inc. and Alcatel SA are targeting such deficiencies with new software for their respective routers. While the improvements are being aimed initially at service providers, enterprises […]

Array Networks Inc., a networking startup combining multiple IP services into a single network device, is beefing up the performance of its caching abilities and adding new security features in its latest release. Array, of Campbell, Calif., on Monday is announcing Version 3.1 of its operating system for its Array Web Traffic Manager platforms. Available […]

Quest Software Inc. is expanding its database management tool for IBMs DB2 Universal Database to mainframe platforms. Quest Central for DB2 Version 2.0, announced this week at the International DB2 Users Group conference in San Diego, supports IBMs z/0S and OS/390 mainframe operating systems in its suite of management tools. The combination means that customers […]

A networking startup is tackling the need to load balance across WAN connections and provide backup capabilities in case a link fails. Amplify.net Inc.s iSurfJanus-RX family of Multi-Homed Router Expeditors, which began shipping this month, can support multiple private or public WAN links and access technologies, such as T-1, frame relay, ISDN, DSL, cable and […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday launched an upgrade to its IOS operating system software that offers nine new features to improve network recovery and reduce packet loss. The set of new features, being called the Cisco Globally Resilient IP, or GRIP, portfolio, is part of Ciscos push to what it calls “resiliency,” or the ability […]

On the same day Apple Computer Inc. introduced its Xserve server line, the Cupertino, Calif., computer maker gained some additional enterprise support from Sybase Corp. and its relational database software. Sybase Tuesday announced that it would ship a version of its Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5 for the Mac OS X in the third quarter of […]