Database and Network Journal articles from June 2001

Database and Network Journal archives from June 2001

Databases: the future of storage is in software.
June 1, 2001... In the 1970s and 1980s, data centres were primarily mainframe and minicomputer environments controlled by central IT organisations. During the late 1980s and the early 1990s, the rise of distributed computing reduced centralised control,...

Companies must create data storage policy.(Database News)
June 1, 2001... A new report on Data Management from Butler Group, titled "Data Management: Data--The Forgotten Element of the New Economy?" states that past failure to control influx of data, coupled with spiraling levels of data, is leading many companies to...

IP-storage becomes reality.(Database News)
June 1, 2001... FalconStor Software, Inc. has announced IPStor, claimed to be the world's first commercial soft-ware enabling the provision of storage in the form of SAN (Storage Area Networks) or NAS (Network-Attached Storage) over IP. IPStor's virtualisation...

Bundled data protection for Suse Linux customers.(Database News)
June 1, 2001... Legato Systems, specialist in enterprise storage management software, bundles Legato's NetWorker 6 Linux client and Legato Cluster for Linux, an entry-level clustering solution, with the SUSE Linux 7.1 Professional Series to deliver data backup...

Bloor Research 'say consider the merits of sentences.'.(Database News)
June 1, 2001... Bloor Research, has published an evaluation of 'Sentences the first database to implement the 'Associative Model of Data 'recently developed and launched by Lazy Software Limited. Among the key findings covered by the Bloor Research evaluation:...

Quest Central for DB2.(Database News)
June 1, 2001... Quest Software, has announced support for IBM's DB2 Universal Database, version 7.2, with Quest Central for DB2, a database management solution which enables customers to use their DB2 environment, to increase productivity, and decrease the...

Pervasive.SQL2000i database engine.(Database News)
June 1, 2001... Developer Solutions has a new version of Pervasive's application development database engine, Pervasive. SQL 2000i. This offers database simplicity and flexibility for traditional, Internet and Linux deployments and can drive both traditional...

Cloudscape in Silverstream server.(Database News)
June 1, 2001... Informix has formed a technology and marketing partnership with SilverStream Software. Cloudscape V3.6 is now bundled and embedded with the SilverStream Application Server V3.7.2 Developer's Edition, delivering a pure Java database engine that...

Cyrano Production 2.6.(Database News)
June 1, 2001... Production, version 2.6, is a testing tool designed to monitor production Sybase server activity, detecting faults and reducing the level of server downtime and associated costs. It enables the user to set specific thresholds that, when...

QDesigner.(Database News)
June 1, 2001... Quest Software has released QDesigner, a database design tool designed to enable users to manage application design from data and object modelling to code generation, with substantial time saving. The solution accelerates database design and...

Pervasive SQL 2000i.(Database News)
June 1, 2001... New features, enable this database to drive both traditional and Internet based applications across a spectrum of hardware and software platforms. Pervasive SQL 2000i provides backward compatibility with existing Btrieve API-based applications...

Advance acquires click online.(Company Performance)
June 1, 2001... Advance Visual Communications, has acquired Click Online, to give the company entry into the German Internet market. The acquisition follows the acquisition in February of Pans based Internet consultancy, Webrnania. The new offices have access...

Touchstone acquire Chartland Associates.(Company Performance)
June 1, 2001... Touchstone Group Plc, is expanding in the Customer Relationship Management ("CRM") market with the agreement to purchase the entire share capital of Chartland Associates PLC for initial consideration of 666,818 [pounds sterling] and deferred...

Quest DB2 supports multiple platforms.(Database News)
June 1, 2001... Quest Software have released Quest Central for DB2 version 1.1, with added support for IBM OS/390 mainframe systems, DB2 version 7 and new functionality to facilitate the migration of databases across servers. These enhancements it is claimed...

e2 Comms Europe record sales.(Company Performance)
June 1, 2001... e2 Communications Europe, has announced record first quarter results in the UK. During the first quarter ending March 2001, e2 reported revenues that were more than double those of the fourth quarter of 2000, and eclipsed those for the whole of...

Foundry Networks 01.(Company Performance)
June 1, 2001... Foundry Networks Inc. has reported financial results Q1 ended March 31, 2001. Net revenue for the first quarter of 2001 was $82.6 million, compared to $70.0 million for the first quarter of 2000. Pro forma net income for the first quarter of...

I-Logix secures new financing.(Company Performance)
June 1, 2001... I-Logix Inc., a provider of enterprise solutions for embedded applications development, announced the completion of $7.6 million in new equity financing, including $4.6 million from new investors. New strategic investors Philips Ventures BV,...

Effective interconnection bridges digital divide.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... In a report released by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), it is cited as vital to ensure the twin goals of maximizing the productivity and efficiency of rapidly growing networks and of extending those networks to those who cannot...

Converging voice and data.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... Jumper Networks and Sonus Networks are working together to enable service providers to offer integrated voice and data over their existing infrastructures whilst maintaining the highest levels of performance, reliability, and quality of...

Spectel-Multilink integrates Video streaming.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... Spectel-Multilink, provider of multimedia conferencing systems, have integrated Video streaming to its 7 Series portfolio. This new enables business users to "stream' events live across the Interact or the corporate Wide Area Network (WAN)....

PhotoSuite Mobile for powered handhelds.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... MGI Software, has announced PhotoSuite Mobile Edition, an application that allows users to store, view and beam photo and video files on colour and greyscale Palm OS handhelds. The software, which includes a desktop component for Windows and...

Intra-connectivity service.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... Interxion, operator of Internet Exchange Centers has launched a managed connectivity service, Data-Connect, allowing its customers to connect to each other and exchange data traffic within its IECs in a cost effective manner. Customers and...

Chariot test tool for VoIP.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... NetIQ, released version 4.l of its Chariot testing tool, in conjunction with the Chariot Voice over IP (VoIP) module, a new add-on module that determines how well VoIP will perform on data networks. Designed for use before buying and installing...

Xara Online.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... Xara Online, together with BY0Broadcast are to offer a new audio Message 'module'. BY0Broadcast, allows anyone to listen to or post audio onto a website using a computer microphone. The new Audio Message module will enable everyone, from...

Silverstream extend.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... SilverStream extend provides an integrated environment for delivering service-oriented applications with an unmatched back-end integration system that allows for an immediate migration to Web Services. Using standard Java and XML technologies,...

ITU streamlines its work in data networks.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... ITU announced streamlining its work in the area of data networks, open system communications and telecommunication software. The management teams of two study groups (Study Groups 7 and 10) have been merged to start work on creating the new...

China to hosts ITU TELEcom Asia 2002.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... ITU TELEcom ASIA 2002 will be held in Hong Kong, China, from 2 to 7 December next year. The event will be hosted by the Government of the People's Republic of China and will take place in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre...

SMEs 'ripped off by telecoms costs'.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... SMEs are spending an average 8% of their total budget on communications overheads, according to research by telecoms consultancy Alternative Networks (ANL). The survey revealed that companies in the financial sector spend the highest percentage...

Fast-track to growth for telecoms.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... Smarten, a customer care and IP billing specialist, is expanding into the UK market. The company has established its international sales headquarters in the UK. Its team will be looking to develop partnerships as well as direct sales...

Sorce intr/extr package.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... SORCE, is a new 'off the shelf' configurable intranet/extranet software package, which it is claimed can be configured and ready, to go live within a week. SORCE has been formulated to make the development of extranets and intranets a...

DIALnet high-speed broadband for schools.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... DIALnet's is to make high quality broadband communication services affordable for every school in the UK following its acquisition by Redstone Telecom plc, currently undertaking a large-scale roll-out of high-speed Digital Subscriber Lines...

FormScape DocsOnline.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... DocsOnline, an internet based document distribution and storage tool for ERP and legacy systems is an extension to the FormScape document management suite and offers electronic document retrieval and storage for users in enterprise networks....

Network software manager.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... Software Manager, a Red Hat Network-based systems management solution gives administrators of Red Hat Linux systems a customised connection for each system to receive real-time bug notification, security alerts, and software updates, direct...

Network intrusion detection.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... Unipalm, has announced the availability of a new product bundle featuring SecureNet Pro and the Intrusion.com PDS network security appliance, designed to simplify intrusion detection deployment. SecureNet comes pre-installed with the latest...

WhatsUp Gold 6.0.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... WhatsUp Gold 6.0, a featured element of Cisco Systems' newly introduced CiscoWorks for Windows V6.0. offers small to midsize business customers the tools to ensure reliable network uptime with minimal time commitments. Although WhatsUp Gold 6.0...

Butler report on 'Wireless Internet Revolution'.(Wireless News)
June 1, 2001... Butler Group, latest report rifled 'Wireless Internet Revolution'. investigates the combination of efficiencies and enhanced effectiveness that can be achieved through redesigning work away from the fixed desktop model. The mobile market has...

ianywhere Mobile Banking Terminal.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... The 'ianywhere Mobile Banking Terminal', is a platform to provide banks and insurance companies with a solution to deliver personalised financial services enabling customers to conduct banking transactions--anytime, anywhere. The solution...

Brightcom reveals roadmap.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... The original idea for Bluetooth wireless technology was simply to replace cables with a wireless connection in two main areas. The first was between mobile phones and headsets to move mobile phones away from the user's head. The second was to...

Palm VNC.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... Palm VNC (Virtual Network Connection), allows Palm users to view and control a PC, Mac or UNIX desktop from any location. Users connect via a GSM phone and use TDK Systems' GlobalPulse mobile communications application to work locally on the...

WLAN 11 Mbps voice/data networking.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... WLAN 11 Mbps is a new high-speed wireless based Local Area Networking solution that can be built to cover any area and any number of users. Its log-on process features authentication and encryption, to ensure the highest data security. Users...

I.T. freedom with wireless networks.(Networks)
June 1, 2001... The latest wireless networking solution from Symbol Technologies, provide businesses with communication capabilities in which numbers of laptops and desktop computers can be fitted with a wireless network PC card that 'communicates' with access...

Global software loses $11.7bn to piracy: BSA organization.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... BSA Organisation Result from an annual study carded out for the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a watchdog group representing the world's leading software manufacturers, show that the UK software industry lost 346 million [pounds...

Euro internet growth.(European News)
June 1, 2001... The European Internet is growing explosively and becoming more central to daily life as European consumers shop and communicate more using the online medium, according to the first AOL Europe/Roper Starch Cyberstudy. The study found a...

Developing information (knowledge) strategies to survive the recession.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... Over 120 knowledge and information managers and executives from the information industry gathered at a seminar in New York City to discuss 'The impact of a "'recession" on the information market', hosted by TFPL Inc. Deciding that there...

Top 10 emarketplace services firms earn 47% of market's revenues.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... A new bulletin, ranks the leading emarketplace firms by revenue lead by PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM Global Services, and Cap Gemini Ernst and Young. The top players in the worldwide marketplace services market ascended to their leading...

Cautious European SMBs.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... Investment by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBS) in IT hardware, software, and services is set to take off between now and 2004, driven by an increase in spending on new technology. SMBs have previously been slow to spend on new...

IT Spending in European banking sector to reach $67 billion by 2004.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... According to IDC, IT spending by European banking institutions in the face of political, economic, and technological changes will reach $67 billion by 2004. IDC believes what is driving investments are banks' needs to improve their...

Open source conference.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... Red Hat, Inc. have announced Red Hat TechWorld, a technical conference aimed at bringing Red Hat customers and open source developers and advocates together for a variety, of educational and technical tracks. The first of these global events...

European business intell software to reach 50% in 3 years.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... According to IDC's recent end-user survey of 405 European organizations, the current deployment rate of business intelligence software is 15%. In three years, this rate will reach 50%. Driving this growth is ebusiness and all the effects...

No correlation between IT spending and profits.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... There is no correlation between IT spending and profits, according to findings by Strassmian Inc. The overwhelming evidence dramatically reverses conventional assumptions that increased IT spend leads to increased profitability. Research shows...

IT project recovery.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... Every year billions of pounds worth of IT projects are started up--then abandoned as unworkable and the costs written off Many projects are destined to fail from the start no matter how much effort staff put in. In England and Wales alone, IT...

Rebound offsets consumer slump.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... Despite continued single-digit growth in Western Europe, the market has undergone a major shift in the market segment mix in contrast to the same period for 2000. Business sales returned to stronger growth, fuelling the commercial desktop and...

Slowdown won't last for long.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... According to IDC, the United States has been engulfed in a vicious circle that has caused the economy and technology spending to stumble. However, the global market intelligence and advisory firm is confident that things will not spiral out of...

Outsourcing main driver in Europe.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... Services industries are experiencing tremendous growth, and demand for services applications especially professional services is stronger than ever. According to IDC, Western European professional services revenues will jump to over $920...

Global ASP growth study.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... The ASP Industry Consortium (ASPIC) has commissioned the largest-ever study of the multi billion dollar Application Service Provider (ASP) market, with the aim of measuring worldwide supply and demand for ASP services. The global study will...

SMEs growth engine for supply chain services.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) are set to drive the market for supply chain management (SCM) services in the medium term. The current economic climate is causing companies to focus on operational efficiency and reduced business...

Mobility or connectivity--butler group comment.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... The current interest in mobile computing and mobile commerce is misdirected or, at least, missing the very big picture. The real issue is connectivity not mobility. We are led to believe that in the future many transactions--private or...

Free forum for trading intellectual property.(IT News)
June 1, 2001... NewIdeaTrade.com provides a free forum for trading intellectual property, both industrial and copyrighted. The intellectual property transfer market is estimated to be worth over $100 billion. Independent innovators, authors, and artists often...

E-Commerce: core systems and ebusiness.
June 1, 2001... The imminent demise of mainframes and minicomputers has been predicted for decades, yet mainframe sales remain strong. According to Meta Group, around 70% of corporate information is still entrusted to them. Global conversion to ebusiness is...

Barriers to B2B for Finance companies.(E-Commerce News)
June 1, 2001... Getting value for money and ensuring open integration are the biggest barriers to adoption of B2B e-Commerce for companies in the Finance Sector, according to global market research commissioned by Izodia .The Finance sector is not as mature in...

Despite dot-com shakeout, European Internet commerce growing steadily.(E-Commerce News)
June 1, 2001... According to IDC, 117 million Europeans around 30% of the entire population, were using the Intemet at the end of 2000. This figure is set to increase to 233 million by the end of 2004, representing almost 60% of the entire population. Despite...

E-business cut could hamper UK business.(E-Commerce News)
June 1, 2001... UK Companies cutting back on e-business budgets in response to the slow down in the US are making false economies which could result in them becoming uncompetitive when the market eventually takes an upturn, according to one of the UK's...

Integration projects time cut.(E-Commerce News)
June 1, 2001... Actional, has teamed with IBM's integration division to provide customers with the ability to get e-business applications up and running in weeks, rather than months. Actional Control Broker (ACB) software will work alongside IBM MQSeries and...

Entegrity and BEA boost secure e-commerce.(E-Commerce News)
June 1, 2001... As a member of the BEA Star Partner Program, Entegrity is working with BEA to enhance the security of applications built on BEA WebLogic Server. Entegrity AssureAccess provides an integration with BEA WebLogic Server as an extended security...

Exchequer/Actinic offer joint e-commerce solution.(E-Commerce News)
June 1, 2001... Exchequer Software and Actinic are to provide SMEs with a fully integrated, end-to-end e-commerce solution. The companies have developed a link between Actinic Business, a front-end Web catalogue package, and Exchequer's Enterprise back-office...

Death knell for traditional CRM software.(E-Commerce News)
June 1, 2001... Salesforce.com has launched a pay as you go, online CRM service designed to eliminate the need for excessive spend on CRM software products providing, it is claimed, almost instant ROI. A Gartner Group report predicts that 80% of CRM software...

Civil liberty concerns to delay wide-spread use of all-purpose digital ident. cards.(E-Commerce News)
June 1, 2001... The new Butler Group report. 'Digital Identities: The Single Touch Point for E-Commerce', states that digital identification and smart card technology has advanced to the stage where multiple applications can be included within a single smart...

ISPs one-dimensional service.(E-Commerce News)
June 1, 2001... Visual Insights, conducted a survey across 1200 hosted enterprises. The results revealed that 90% of companies with hosted Web sites believed measuring hit rates was the only significant method of online performance measurement, which...

eworld 2001 survey results.(E-Commerce News)
June 1, 2001... * The Dot-Corn Crash Is Irrelevant Companies around the world will spend more on Web-site infrastructure this year alone than they did in five years preparing for Y2K. Although Internet stocks have crashed, dragging most of high tech with them,...

Reviewer 2.0 aids bug-free development.(Products)
June 1, 2001... Reviewer for Select EnterpriscO version 2.0, is an automated design review tool that evaluates and automatically fixes design errors to enable faster development of ebusiness applications. New features include a new 'Fix-it' option that allows...

WebFOCUS i-vision for SAP.(Products)
June 1, 2001... Information Builders, has introduced WebFOCUS i-vision for Sales and Distribution Analysis, is a content-based analytical application for SAP Sales and Distribution systems. WebFocus i-vision provides an intelligent way to turn complex data...

Corporate portals now mainstream technology.(Internet Focus)
June 1, 2001... Portal technology has now become a mature technology, with an exceptional level of take up by blue chip companies, according to results of a Buffer Group survey of blue chip companies. The survey, taken at Butler Group's Corporate Portal...

War on bogus internet patents.(Internet Focus)
June 1, 2001... Two organisations from seemingly-opposite sides of the Intemet patent debate have teamed up to launch PriorArt.org, a service designed to halt the increasing number of bogus patents on software and other such Internet technologies that threaten...

First new gTLD in 15 years.(Internet Focus)
June 1, 2001... The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)granted accreditation for biz, the first generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) dedicated exclusively to the business community worldwide. The agreement permits NeuLevel, Inc., the...

25% of working lives spent managing email.(Internet Focus)
June 1, 2001... Twenty-five percent of working lives is now spent managing email, and it's only going to get worse, according to a new report on email management in the workplace. Although email has become much more relevant to how we do our work, it was...

FTP planet.com records one million visits.(Internet Focus)
June 1, 2001... Ipswitch, Inc., say that FTPplanet.com (www.ftpplanet.com), its online community site that promotes use of the FTP protocol among new and experienced users, has had one million unique visits. Visitors to FTPplanet.com can learn more about the...

Gordano's GL WebMail goes multi-lingual.(Internet Focus)
June 1, 2001... Gordano Ltd., has introduced multiple language versions of its browser-based email client, GL WebMail. A choice of options at the user level changes the icon descriptions, context sensitive help and mail folder titles from the default...

Ebox Marketer for permision marketing.(Products)
June 1, 2001... Ebox Marketer, is an email marketing tool aimed at the global SME market, Designed to enable businesses to manage email marketing campaigns. It has been designed ahead of the proposed American and European legislation which is anticipated will...

Enterprise Vault 3.5 email management system.(Products)
June 1, 2001... The latest version of Enterprise Vault, an enterprise email management system adds key features such as Usage Reporter & Billing Output, Policy Management, Client Software Development Kit, New Language Support and Further Integration with...

Mozquito Factory 1.5.(Products)
June 1, 2001... Mozquito Factory 1.5 uses Mozquito's new Forms Markup Language, XHTML-FML, to enable users to design and create online applications, complex questionnaires, interactive calendars, order forms, surveys, administration interfaces, e-commerce...

SecretAgent web application for recruitment.(Products)
June 1, 2001... SecretAgent combines an online recruitment package, an agency contact management/scheduling system, and a detailed stats section. Agencies can enhance existing business by making the web application available to their clients and at the same...

Security: is your Firewall enough?
June 1, 2001... A firewall is an absolutely essential security tool. No doubt about that. But if you want your company s network to be truly secure, there's work to be done before you even think about what tools you need to deploy. Your first step should be to...

Security testing ignored-survey.(Security News)
June 1, 2001... A survey from NTA Monitor shows that the use of testing varies greatly between central and local government departments, different industry sectors and between countries. As the survey was conducted among clients already aware of the need for...

AssureAccess benchmark.(Security News)
June 1, 2001... Entegrity Solutions Corp., AssureAccess management software it is claimed, set a new performance record of up to 65 percent faster for critical real world authorisation speeds than competing solutions. The results were achieved in tests...