Wayne Rash

About

Wayne Rash is a content writer and editor with a 35-year history covering technology. He’s a frequent speaker on business, technology issues and enterprise computing. He is the author of five books, including his most recent, "Politics on the Nets." Rash is a former Executive Editor of eWEEK and a former analyst in the eWEEK Test Center. He was also an analyst in the InfoWorld Test Center and editor of InternetWeek. He's a retired naval officer, a former principal at American Management Systems and a long-time columnist for Byte Magazine.

Symantec Firewall Appliance Targets Midsize Firms

Symantec Corp. will announce the next member of its gateway security series on Oct. 26. The Cupertino, Calif., security vendors new Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series is designed to fit into organizations with 75 to 200 users that are part of a larger enterprise. According to George Sluz, group product manager for entry-level appliances, the […]

Addamark Renames Itself SenSage, Updates SIM Product

Addamark Technologies will announce Monday that the company is changing its name to SenSage Inc. The San Francisco-based company also will rename its SIM (security information management) product from Omnisight to SenSage 3.0. According to CEO Jim Pflaging, the company made the decision both to reflect what the company does and to highlight the added […]

Sender ID Finds New Life

Internet Light and Power says it will become one of the first ISPs to deploy Microsoft Corp.s anticipated Sender ID technology in daily operations. Sender ID will become part of the Toronto-based companys iPermitMail virtual e-mail firewall, which ILAP developed as a means of combating e-mail fraud. According to ILAP President Tristan Goguen, the product […]

Versatel Unleashes VOIP Apps

Media gateway maker Versatel Networks will announce a new series of applications at VON (the Voice on the Net expo and conference) next week in Boston. The new applications include support for conferencing network edge, which in turn unloads the conferencing task from the PBX. CallPods, as the application is named, is likened to a […]

Mesh Wi-Fi Network Eases On-Site Debate Reporting

When members of the media begin filing into Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University in Tempe to report on Wednesday nights presidential debate, theyll find a new broadband wireless service waiting for them. And in fact, this service has been up and running for them for the past couple of days, so they can file […]

SGI to Ship Intel Linux Workstation

Silicon Graphics Inc. announced that it will ship a new Intel Itanium-based Linux workstation that the company says is the most powerful of its kind in the world. The new SGI Prism should ship to customers on November 8, according to Shawn Underwood, director of marketing for SGI, based in Mountain View, Calif. Underwood said […]

A Pain in the Backup

A year ago when I was testing 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches at the University of Hawaii, several things became clear. The first was that those switches were really fast. They really can pump data at their rated speeds, and that means sometimes three or four parallel 10-gig channels. Thats a lot of data. At the time […]

U.S. House Passes Anti-Spyware Bill

WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make spyware illegal—and provide stiff sanctions for anyone found breaking that law. The bipartisan Internet Spyware (I-SPY) Prevention Act of 2004, passed by a vote of 415-0, is intended to punish spyware without placing undue burdens on legitimate uses of the same […]

Interactive Voice Response Eases Drug Recall

When Ed Mercadante saw the news that pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. was recalling its popular arthritis drug Vioxx, he knew he was in for a challenge. Mercadante, the CEO of Familymeds Inc., an 80-store pharmacy chain based in Farmington, Conn., needed to get the word out to his customers in a hurry. In […]

Siebel Offers Narrowly Focused BI Apps

Enterprise software provider Siebel Systems announced this week that it has begun an initiative to provide global business intelligence to its enterprise clients. The initiative, which includes an alliance with Microsoft, is embodied in a software suite called the Siebel Enterprise Analytic Applications. The applications focus on four primary areas: customer analytics, financial analytics, workforce […]