MarketWatch: Infrastructure articles from May 2003

MarketWatch: Infrastructure archives from May 2003

Market Dynamics: enterprise security market hot spots.(Industry Overview)
May 28, 2003... Event Summary There is no need to look further than the financial statements of most all the major enterprise security suppliers to appreciate that the market segment, relatively speaking, is booming. Firewall sales, intrusion detection...

Baltimore looks for buyer. (Infrastructure News Review).
May 28, 2003... Internet security software vendor Baltimore Technologies Plc has put itself up for sale and appointed investment bank JP Morgan to assist it in finding a new owner. The Dublin, Ireland-based PKI specialist has been through a tough 18...

Stop using Microsoft's passport, Gartner warns. (Infrastructure News Review).
May 28, 2003... Companies using Microsoft Corp's Passport for customer authentication to online services should immediately suspend the system until Microsoft proves it offers "adequate" security. Businesses should also contact all of their customers who use...

IBM thinks Dynamic for policy-based utility provisioning. (Infrastructure News Review).
May 28, 2003... IBM Corp has acquired a small, privately held company based in Toronto, Canada, that may just hold one of the pivotal technologies in the goal all vendors have of creating true dynamic, utility computing. The company, Think Dynamics, is...

IBM's "T-Rex" to rule mainframe shops through 2004. (Infrastructure News Review).
May 28, 2003... IBM Corp has rolled out its next generation of mainframe servers, code-named "T-Rex" and sold under the zSeries 990 moniker. With the advent of the T-Rex machines, IBM is not only trying to build machines with more capacity and features, but...

Intel says some "McKinley" Itanium 2 Chips have bugs. (Infrastructure News Review).
May 28, 2003... If you have a server or workstation using the 900MHz or 1GHz "McKinley" Itanium 2 processor from Intel Corp, pay attention. According to an errata report that Intel is just about to post to its support site, there is an electrical issue with...

Check point sees App-Level firewall driving sales. (Infrastructure News Review).(Check Point Next Generation with Application Intelligence )
May 28, 2003... Check Point Software Technologies Ltd has unveiled what executives said is its most significant product upgrade since its firewalls first hit the market ten years, adding that the release will be responsible for more and larger customer sales....

Symantec expands on Security Management Vision. (Infrastructure News Review).
May 28, 2003... Symantec Corp has released two key components of its Security Management System (SSMS) offering, the suite of software driving the company's ambition to be a comprehensive solesource for corporate security products. Incident Manager, the...

Microsoft outlines future client and server OS. (Infrastructure News Review).(Longhorn and Blackcomb operating systems)
May 28, 2003... Microsoft Corp executives have given developers a peek into its strategy around the planned Longhorn and Blackcomb operating systems, while naming 2005 as the date for its next client operating system. Senior vice president of Microsoft's...

IBM puts Power4+ across pSeries, extends on demand features. (Infrastructure News Review).
May 28, 2003... IBM Corp will upgrade its pSeries 655 midrange and pSeries 670 and pSeries 690 enterprise servers with significantly faster Power4+ processors while at the same time extending the On Demand features it offers in the pSeries line. IBM is...

HP overhauls enterprise business. (Infrastructure News Review).
May 28, 2003... Hewlett-Packard Co has performed a sweeping realignment of its enterprise business division, consolidating its three existing hardware operations into a single unit and tightening links with its services arm. The company has also created a...

Palmisano outlines on demand, IBM unwraps products. (Infrastructure News Review).
May 28, 2003... IBM Corp chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano has seen the future of the IT industry, and it is black and blue. The black part is not the abyss, but rather profits; the blue part is, as you might expect from Palmisano, Big Blue itself and its central...