EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from December 2004

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from December 2004

ECI Telecom and Chiaro Networks enter strategic partnership.
December 6, 2004... ECI Telecom Ltd. (NASDAQ:ECIL), a global provider of advanced telecommunications solutions to leading carriers and service providers, and Chiaro Networks, a developer of true carrier infrastructure-class IP/MPLS routing platforms, announced...

Cisco and Italtel join forces to help service providers capitalise on growth in business IP voice services.(Cisco Systems Inc.)
December 6, 2004... Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) and its strategic alliance partner, Italtel, have announced the introduction of a joint network transformation solution designed to help service providers to migrate their telephone networks to an Internet Protocol...

PTC extends leadership in electronics and high tech industry.(PTC Technology)
December 6, 2004... PTC (Nasdaq:PMTC), the Product Development Company, has announced that it is extending its leadership in the electronics and high tech industry with innovative new product capabilities for electronics design validation and advanced...

Verific ships first commercially available SystemVerilog parser.(Verific Design Automation)
December 6, 2004... Verific Design Automation, a provider of Verilog and VHDL front ends for electronic design automation (EDA) applications, recently announced that it is shipping the first commercially available SystemVerilog parser. Written in...

LiveTime Software adds Ingres open source database support to its J2EE support applications.(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... LiveTime Software has announced the expansion of databases supported by LiveTime Support Desk and LiveTime Help Desk to include Ingres r3 open source RDBMS from Computer Associates International, Inc. The release, due Q4 2004, will allow...

ADIC introduces major advance in disk-based backup.(Advanced Digital Information Corporation)
December 6, 2004... Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), a leader in Intelligent Storage solutions for the open systems market, today announced a major development in disk-based backup with the latest release of the company's Pathlight VX disk...

F5 Networks achieves OPSEC certification from Check Point Software.(Open Platform for Security)
December 6, 2004... F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV), the global provider of Application Traffic Management, has announced that its BIG-IP product has again achieved OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) certification from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd....

Design tool for mobile chips produces major power savings.
December 13, 2004... Chips designed for use in mobile devices got a shot in the arm recently, as Prolific Inc. released its ProPower optimization software. ProPower reduces leakage power by an average of 20 percent on designs that have already been optimized using...

Rackable Systems launches iSCSI storage target appliance for high density, high performance data center deployments.
December 13, 2004... Rackable Systems, Inc., a provider of compute and storage servers for scale out data center deployments, has announced its new family of iSCSI storage targets. Immediately available on all Rackable Systems storage servers, iSCSI leverages...

McDATA SANavigator enables ManagedStorage to securely and automatically manage customer accounts.(ManagedStorage International)
December 13, 2004... ManagedStorage International, an international enterprise storage networking services provider, has gained operational efficiencies and increased service levels to customers with the use of McDATA's SANavigator. As their customer base swelled,...

AMD Geode GX SOM-144 Reference Design Kit provides low-power solutions for industrial computing applications.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)
December 13, 2004... AMD (NYSE:AMD) has announced the availability of the AMD Geode GX SOM-144 Reference Design Kit (RDK), a low-power, high-performance System-On-Module designed to speed development and functionality of the next generation of industrial computing...

Merix Corporation acquires Data Circuit Systems, Inc.
December 13, 2004... Merix Corporation (Nasdaq:MERX) has announced the acquisition of Data Circuit Systems, Inc., a provider of high velocity, quick-turn printed circuit board fabrication services for a total purchase price of $43.0 million, consisting of $41.0...

AMD drives future of Formula One technology.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc., contract)
December 13, 2004... Using technology provided by AMD (NYSE:AMD), Formula One team Sauber Petronas has launched its new supercomputer at the team's headquarters in Hinwil, Switzerland. This groundbreaking supercomputer, powered by more than 500 AMD Opteron...

St. Bernard Software announces support for Microsoft's Network Access Protection technology.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... St. Bernard Software, a provider of essential security solutions that protect against data loss, system threats, Internet abuse and unsolicited email, today announced its support for Microsoft's Network Access Protection (NAP), an extensible...

Linux market to exceed $35 billion by 2008.(Brief Article)
December 13, 2004... The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, has announced the completion of a global Linux market share and forecast study conducted by market research firm IDC...

CopperGate and Ucentric team up for home IP network entertainment applications solution.(internet protocol, CopperGate Communications, Ucentric Systems)
December 20, 2004... CopperGate Communications, a developer of chipset solutions for home networking, and Ucentric Systems, a leading provider of home media networking software for the digital home, has announced a joint Internet Protocol (IP) network solution for...

MPC Computers introduces the NetFRAME 4620 server.
December 20, 2004... MPC Computers, a Gores Technology Group company, has announced the NetFRAME 4620 server, which offers the latest in enterprise-class features in a dual-processor server. The NetFRAME 4620 includes Intel's 7520 chipset, up to 16GB of DDR2 400...

Atmel licenses industry-leading Gigabit Ethernet Physical Layer Core.(agreement with National Semiconductor Corp.)
December 20, 2004... Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML), a leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced recently the completion of a licensing agreement with National Semiconductor Corporation for a Gigabit Ethernet Physical...

Memec announces Virtex-4 MB development kit.
December 20, 2004... Memec, a leading global semiconductor distributor specializing in demand creation, today introduced its Virtex-4 MB development kit. The first board available with the Xilinx Virtex-4 LX60 FPGA, Memec's MB board complements the distributor's...

Cypress ships USB host mass storage reference design kit.(Cypress Semiconductor Corp., Universal serial bus)
December 20, 2004... Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY), the market-share leader in USB, has announced general availability of its USB host mass storage reference design kit (RDK) for embedded applications. The CY4640 hardware/software solution enables mass...

SBS Technologies announces a new product line of CompactPCI DSP-based I/O boards.(input output)
December 20, 2004... SBS Technologies (Nasdaq:SBSE) has continued its role as an embedded defense electronics leader by introducing a new member of its line of DSP-based I/O Interface boards for military and defense applications. The 6U DIO1-6CP provides a highly...

Linux kernel software quality and security better than most proprietary enterprise software.
December 20, 2004... Coverity, a software engineering company focused on developing a better way to build software, recently announced results on Linux security compiled over four years of source code analysis of the Linux kernel. Coverity discovered 985 bugs in...

U.S. Army and Nielsen Media Research partner with Boston University to develop home of the future.
December 20, 2004... The Boston University Institute for Leading in a Dynamic Economy (BUILDE) has announced the creation of the "Technologically Connected Home Project." Led by a team of researchers from the School of Management at Boston University, this...