Recent articles by Dave Bailey

Vendors tout 802.11n capabilities

Vendors tout 802.11n capabilities

Two major Wi-Fi vendors today released 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) technology which they say could allow firms to replace their edge wired network infrastructure.
Dave Bailey Apr 22 2008 3:21PM Networking
HP ProCurve offers Microsoft NAP compatibility

HP ProCurve offers Microsoft NAP compatibility

HP ProCurve has announced that its network policy management system is now compatible with Microsoft's network access protection (NAP) technology.
Dave Bailey Apr 22 2008 3:21PM Networking
Novell launches Suse Appliance Program

Novell launches Suse Appliance Program

Enterprise Linux vendor Novell has announced a new Suse Appliance Program, which will allow independent software vendors (ISVs) to create software appliances by integrating their applications with a customised version of Suse's Linux Enterprise platform.
Dave Bailey Apr 17 2008 11:49AM Software
WordPerfect goes PDF

WordPerfect goes PDF

Corel has launched the latest version of its Office productivity suite, WordPerfect Office X4, touting it as "the world's first PDF Office Suite".
Dave Bailey Apr 17 2008 11:49AM Software
Infoblox delivers DNS and DHCP for Windows systems

Infoblox delivers DNS and DHCP for Windows systems

Microsoft gold certified partner Infoblox will today announce the launch of its Infoblox IP address management (IPAM) WinConnect system, an application which can run on Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 operating system.
Dave Bailey Apr 8 2008 1:28PM Software
Borland and CodeGear tout better software development

Borland and CodeGear tout better software development

Application lifecycle management (ALM) vendor Borland has updated its software and configuration management system, StarTeam, claiming to provide better support for distributed development teams.
Dave Bailey Apr 2 2008 3:38PM Software
Network management increasingly challenging

Network management increasingly challenging

A new survey of senior IT networking professionals indicates many continue to struggle with application performance.
Dave Bailey Apr 2 2008 3:38PM Networking
Fortify delivers software lifecycle assurance

Fortify delivers software lifecycle assurance

Enterprise application vendor Fortify Software today released a comprehensive software assurance suite, which it claims offer application testing unparalleled capabilities.
Dave Bailey Apr 1 2008 3:14PM Software
New enhanced PoE standard lacks punch

New enhanced PoE standard lacks punch

The latest draft of a new standard for enhanced Power over Ethernet (PoE) has proposed significant changes to the amount of power that could be delivered, disappointing some pundits.
Dave Bailey Mar 31 2008 7:44AM Networking
GroundWork aims at enterprise network monitoring

GroundWork aims at enterprise network monitoring

Open source network management software vendor GroundWork has announced an enterprise-focused network monitoring package and a new version of their flagship GroundWork Monitor package, 5.2.
Dave Bailey Mar 27 2008 3:03PM Software
Marathon launches fault tolerant server virtualisation software

Marathon launches fault tolerant server virtualisation software

Marathon Technologies will next month release what it claims is the first fault-tolerant, high-availability software for server virtualisation.
Dave Bailey Mar 26 2008 1:58PM Networking
Citrix and HP team up on server virtualisation

Citrix and HP team up on server virtualisation

Systems giant HP and application delivery vendor Citrix have teamed up to provide virtualisation on 64-bit HP ProLiant servers.
Dave Bailey Mar 25 2008 4:07PM Networking
Avaya promises intelligent communications

Avaya promises intelligent communications

Avaya has unveiled its latest unified communications software, which it promises is breakthrough technology designed to improve the performance of collaborative teams.
Dave Bailey Mar 19 2008 10:04PM Telco/ISP
HP strengthens datacentre management capabilities

HP strengthens datacentre management capabilities

HP has unveiled a series of new services and hardware releases aimed at helping organisations maintain the effectiveness of their datacentres.
Dave Bailey Mar 18 2008 1:59PM Hardware
Siemens unifies comms around software

Siemens unifies comms around software

Enterprise communications vendor Siemens has re-jigged its comms applications portfolio with the launch of its OpenScape Unified Communications (UC) Server, a software package that will underpin its real-time communication suite.
Dave Bailey Mar 4 2008 3:36PM Networking
IBM launches 'consolidation machine'

IBM launches 'consolidation machine'

Large enterprises embarking on big infrastructure consolidation projects could be tempted by the raft of mainframe-related announcements this week, from big name vendors EMC and IBM.
Dave Bailey Feb 28 2008 7:24AM Networking
Riverbed upgrades optimisation system and partners with Fortinet

Riverbed upgrades optimisation system and partners with Fortinet

Wide area data services vendor Riverbed Technology will today release version 5 of its Riverbed Optimisation System (RiOS) for its Steelhead Appliances.
Dave Bailey Feb 25 2008 3:22PM Networking
Symantec integrates security into Backup Exec products

Symantec integrates security into Backup Exec products

Enterprise software vendor Symantec has today launched new versions of its Backup Exec family of products. Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 are both certified and optimised for Windows Server 2008 (WS 2008), which officially launches next week.
Dave Bailey Feb 20 2008 9:59AM Security
Red Hat bosses open source SOA

Red Hat bosses open source SOA

Enterprise open source vendor Red Hat has announced what it says is the "market's first comprehensive open source service orientated architecture technology."
Dave Bailey Feb 19 2008 3:34PM Software
Downtime is more worrying than security threats, finds Symantec survey

Downtime is more worrying than security threats, finds Symantec survey

A new report by Symantec Global Services, ‘IT Risk Management Report 2: Myths and Realities,’ has found that the threat of company downtime is more important than security, in respect of IT risk.
Dave Bailey Feb 4 2008 7:17AM Security

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