EDP Weekly's IT Monitor articles from November 2001

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor archives from November 2001

LINUX NETWORX TO UNVEIL ICE BOX CLUSTER APPLIANCE AT SC2001 TRADE SHOW.
November 5, 2001... Linux NetworX, a provider of powerful and easy-to-manage Linux cluster computing solutions, announced recently plans to unveil its innovative ICE Box 1500 cluster management hardware appliance at the SC2001 trade show in Denver, Nov. 12-15. ICE...

SIGMA NETWORKS INTROS HUBBED SONET SERVICES POWERED BY CIENA COREDIRECTOR.
November 5, 2001... CIENA Corporation (Nasdaq:CIEN), a provider of intelligent optical networking systems and software, and Sigma Networks(SM), provider of a range of metro interconnect services, has announced Sigma Networks' deployment of CIENA's intelligent...

TRISCEND INTRODUCES GRAPHIC LCD DESIGN SOLUTION FOR 8-BIT SYSTEMS.(Triscend Graphic LCD Development Kit)(Product Announcement)
November 5, 2001... Triscend, a provider of Configurable System-on-Chip (CSoC) devices, has announced that for the first time, designers have access to an 8-bit microcontroller with a graphic LCD driver built-in. Based on the 8051-powered E5 CSoC, the new Graphic...

SST UNVEILS EMBEDDED FLASH MEMORY PLAN TARGETING CHINA MARKET.
November 5, 2001... SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.) (Nasdaq:SSTI), a leader in flash memory technology, recently announced its plans to provide embedded flash memory design and manufacturing to Chinese design houses through its partners in China and...

CISCO ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF CISCOWORKS VPN/SECURITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION.(CiscoWorks VPN/Security Management Solution 2.0)(Product Announcement)
November 5, 2001... Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO), a worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, recently announced availability for the latest edition of its CiscoWorks VPN/Security Management solution (VMS). Cisco VMS 2.0 offers customers a comprehensive set...

GARTNER DATAQUEST: IT SERVICE PROVIDERS ARE SELLING MANY SERVICES TO OTHER PROVIDERS.
November 5, 2001... Providers Will Become a Predominant Buyer Segment by 2005 As businesses compete in a truly global marketplace, their increasingly dynamic demands have brought about a dramatic trend in IT services. IT service providers are increasingly...

NEW IBM SERVICE TO HELP COMPUTERS MANAGE THEMSELVES.
November 5, 2001... (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N) announced recently business software that offers the promise of machines that heal and manage themselves. Built with lessons from IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, the system is...

QUEST'S PERFORMANCE MGMT SOLUTIONS TO BE USED AT COMPAQ.
November 5, 2001... Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT), a provider of application management solutions, has announced that its load testing and diagnostic tools, Benchmark Factory and Spotlight, will be used in Compaq Computer Corporation's (NYSE: CPQ) three...

ECVISION INTROS XPRESSB2B: SECURE WEB BASED APP SERVICES.(Product Announcement)
November 5, 2001... ecVision, a provider of collaboration software for automating the international supply chain via the Internet, recently announced the new major release of XpressB2B, a suite of secure web based application services for facilitating e-commerce...

NEW DISKEEPER 7.0 GOES GOLD: INCLUDES WINDOWS XP CERT.(Product Announcement)
November 5, 2001... Executive Software recently announced the release to manufacturing of Diskeeper 7.0 with features that are likely to reshape the industry. According to NPD Intelect, Diskeeper's performance technology already represents over 90% of all...

CALDERA PRESENTS OPENLINUX 64 RELEASE 3.1 FOR INTEL ITANIUM BASED SYSTEMS.(Product Announcement)
November 5, 2001... Caldera International, Inc. (Nasdaq:CALD), has announced the availability of OpenLinux64 Release 3.1, a Linux system-based server and workstation product designed for 64-bit Intel Itaniumprocessors. Utilizing 64-bit technology, OpenLinux 64...

ADC'S SINGLEVIEW V. 4.0 STREAMLINES CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT AND BILLING NEEDS FOR CSPs.(Product Announcement)
November 5, 2001... ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT; www.adc.com), a global supplier of fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks, has announced the release of Singl.eView Version 4.0 to tackle the complexity of...

CSC SIGNS $400 MILLION IT AGREEMENT WITH GLOBAL CROSSING.
November 12, 2001... Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) announced recently that it has signed an information technology (IT) outsourcing agreement with Global Crossing (NYSE: GX) valued at an estimated $400 million over a 10-year term. Under the...

AMD INTROS ATHLON XP PROCESSOR 1900+.(Product Announcement)
November 12, 2001... AMD (NYSE:AMD) has announced the new AMD Athlon XP processor 1900+, which sets a new level of performance and continues to extend AMD's leadership with the world's highest overall performing PC processor. The AMD Athlon XP processor 1900+...

TURBOLINUX 7 SERVER, FIRST LINUX DISTRIBUTION TO CONFORM TO IS SPECS.
November 12, 2001... Turbolinux Inc., a provider Linux operating environments and multi-platform software deployment and management products enabling computing assets to be quickly redefined on demand, recently announced worldwide availability of Turbolinux (TL) 7...

ADC INTROS CIRCUIT BREAKER PLATFORM FOR POWERED NETWORKS.(ADC Telecommunications PowerWorx Select Series Circuit Breaker Platform)(Product Announcement)
November 12, 2001... ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT, www.adc.com), a leading global supplier of fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks, recently introduced the PowerWorx Select Series Circuit Breaker Platform. The...

TOSHIBA BRINGS ENHANCED WIRELESS SOLUTION TO OFFICE LAN ENVIRONMENT.
November 12, 2001... Toshiba Corporation has announced an enhanced wireless solution for LAN environments that offers simple wireless connectivity, total mobility and reinforced security. With demand for secure wireless network connectivity growing fast,...

CANARIE USES SGI OPENGL VIZSERVER TO DRIVE REAL-TIME HIGH-END VISUALIZATIONS UP TO 1,900 MILES.
November 12, 2001... SGI (NYSE: SGI), a world leader in high-performance computing, complex data management, visualization products and services, has announced the successful conclusion of an experiment in long-distance visual serving. The demonstration featured...

INTEL TO INVEST $25 MLN FOR INDIAN R&D UNIT.
November 12, 2001... (Reuters) Intel Corp plans to invest $25 million to set up a new technology development centre in India's technology capital of Bangalore and expand its engineering staff by 60 percent to about 800 by mid-2002, a top company official said. ...

CACI AWARDED "MEGA 2" CONTRACT WITH DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.(Brief Article)
November 12, 2001... CACI International Inc. has announced that it has won a five-year, recompete contract to provide automated litigation support services for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The contract is one of four indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity...

IBM AND DOE'S NNSA PARTNER TO EXPAND IBM'S BLUE GENE RESEARCH PROJECT.(will develop IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer)
November 12, 2001... IBM recently announced a partnership with the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Agency to expand IBM's Blue Gene research project. IBM and NNSA's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will jointly design a new supercomputer...

TRW AWARDED CONTRACT: POTENTIAL OF $55 MIL TO PROVIDE T&E TO SUPPORT TO DOD.
November 12, 2001... TRW Inc. (NYSE: TRW) has been awarded a follow-on contract with a potential value of $55 million over five years to provide engineering, technical and analysis support for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) in the...

MILLER ON PROCUREMENT.
November 12, 2001... ***PAST PERFORMANCE*** One of the major federal primes has recently been embarrassed by their employees three times. Case one, a fake Colonel, posing as an officer of the USAF assigned to NATO, talked the prime and their subs into loaning...

U.S. DOC TO DEPLOY AIT FOR EXPORT.GOV.
November 12, 2001... Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN; Nasdaq Europe: AUTN; LSE: AU.), a leading provider of infrastructure software for the enterprise, recently announced that the United States Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration will...

ACS AWARDED $73 M CONTRACT WITH DOJ - INS.(Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service)
November 12, 2001... ACS (NYSE: ACS), a provider of business process and information technology outsourcing solutions, announced recently that it has signed a contract with the Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to process the...

FDA PURCHASES LEADSCOPE ENTERPRISE AND THE TOXSCOPE TOXICITY DATABASES.
November 12, 2001... LeadScope Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has purchased the LeadScope Enterprise software and the ToxScope toxicity databases to assist in its "in silico" toxicology assessment. Earlier this year,...

EMBEDDED LINUX WINS OVER WINDOWS IN WEAPONS TRACKING RESEARCH.
November 12, 2001... Berkeley, CA -- November 8, 2001 -- Researchers and scientists at Quantum Mechanics say the flexibility of the Linux operating system provided a greater benefit than Windows during the development and testing of a new concealed weapons tracking...

INTEGRAL SYSTEMS GROUP SHARES NASA 'SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR' AWARD.(with NASA Glenn Research Center)
November 12, 2001... An Integral Systems, Inc. team supporting NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, is part of a group that was selected co-winner of NASA's Software of the Year Award 2001. The Integral team has been working for two years to support Glenn's...

HARRIS CORP/BAE SYSTEMS DEPLOY TACTICAL CDL PROTOTYPE ON U.S.S. CONSTELLATION.
November 12, 2001... Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) and BAE SYSTEMS, representing a world partnership in the development of wideband Tactical Common Data Link (TCDL) solutions, recently announced the successful completion of a six-month prototype deployment of...

AMD INTROS INDUSTRY'S FASTEST 128MB FLASH MEMORY DEVICE.(Am29PDL128 flash memory device)(Product Announcement)
November 19, 2001... AMD (NYSE:AMD) has introduced the Am29PDL128, the industry's first x32, high density, 128Mb NOR flash memory device. A high-performance page-mode interface with access times of 25 nanoseconds enables data throughput rates that are 2-3 times...

NEC COMPUTERS' EXPRESS 5800/320LA FAULT TOLERANT SERVER WINS COMDEX BEST OF SHOW AWARD.(Product Announcement)
November 19, 2001... NEC Computers Inc. was awarded the COMDEX 2001 "Best of Show" award for the server category at a reception here in Las Vegas Wednesday. NEC Computers' Express 5800/320La fault tolerant server, the first in a series of fault tolerant servers...

NTT DOCOMO LAUNCHES VIDEO ON 3G, NOKIA ALLIANCE.(Product Announcement)
November 19, 2001... (Reuters) Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc said last Wednesday it would start delivering video snippets over high-speed third-generation (3G) cellphones and laid out plans to cooperate on 3G standards with Nokia of Finland. DoCoMo, Japan's top...

SSP SOLUTIONS: SECURE SERVICES ASP FOR MARKETS.
November 19, 2001... SSP Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSPX), has announced its Secure Services ASP (application service provider) offering, targeted to small- and mid-sized public and private sector organizations. This offering promises the same level of security...

NORTEL NETWORKS: NEW SOLUTION FOR FASTER UMTS WIRELESS DATA SERVICE.
November 19, 2001... Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT)(TSE:NT.) recently announced commercial availability of a new solution designed to enable service providers to offer significantly faster performance for wireless data users with no impact on service coverage. ...

MICROSOFT PRODUCER FOR POWERPOINT 2002 AVAILABLE NOW.(Product Announcement)
November 19, 2001... Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has announced the availability of Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2002 in his keynote address at COMDEX Fall 2001. Microsoft Producer, an add-on for PowerPoint...

SSH ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY OF NEXT-GEN SSH SECURE SHELL TOOLKIT.(SSH Secure Shell Toolkit 3.0)(Product Announcement)
November 19, 2001... SSH Communications Security (HEX:SSH1V), a developer of Internet security solutions, has announced the immediate availability of SSH Secure Shell Toolkit 3.0. SSH Secure Shell Toolkit provides developers with the tools for integrating Secure...

READSOFT LAUNCHES ITS SAP-CERTIFIED INTERFACE SOLUTION AND BECOMES A MEMBER OF THE SAP SOFTWARE PARTNER PROGRAM.(Eyes & Hands Integration Option Pack 1.0)(Product Announcement)
November 19, 2001... ReadSoft has announced its Eyes & Hands Integration Option Pack Version 1.0, a certified interface solution for the mySAP.com e-business platform. The solution opens up a whole new market for ReadSoft's software, Eyes Hands Integration...

IBM LAUNCHES LINUX-BASED SERVER, SOFTWARE PACKAGE.
November 19, 2001... (Reuters) - IBM Corp. said last Tuesday that it has begun selling groups of server computers with system management software and the Linux operating system in a move that the computer giant says will expand the use of Linux. Linux is free...

ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS CHOOSES VERITY SOFTWARE TO POWER NEW GLOBAL INFORMATION PORTAL.
November 19, 2001... A global healthcare company has found a way to overcome the logistical and linguistic hurdles of deploying a corporate intranet. Verity, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRTY), a leading provider of infrastructure software that powers enterprise and e-commerce...

ST. BERNARD EXPANDS ITS OPEN FILE BACKUP TO PROVIDE OPTIMIZED DATA PROTECTION.(Open File Manager 8.0)(Product Announcement)
November 19, 2001... St. Bernard Software, a provider of security solutions that prevent data loss, system threats and Internet abuse, announced recently the release of its enhanced open file backup solution, Open File Manager V8.0. In an effort to accommodate...

GARTNER DATAQUEST SAYS BSP SERVICES MAY PROVIDE A CHEAPER AND FASTER ALTERNATIVE TO FULL-BLOWN OUTSOURCING.
November 19, 2001... As enterprises look to ways to source business processes quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively early signs of the business service provider (BSP) model seem to respond to this need, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner, Inc....

SONY INTROS MICRO VAULT USB STORAGE MEDIA DEVICE FOR QUICK EASY DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN COMPUTERS.(Micro Vault USB-based storage media device)(Product Announcement)
November 26, 2001... Sony recently unveiled the Micro Vault USB-based storage media device that lets users quickly transport and share files between computers without cables or adaptors. About the length of a car key and the thickness of a highlighter pen, the...

FUJITSU LICENSES ARM CORES FOR INTERNET AND PORTABLE MULTIMEDIA ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS.(Fujitsu has licensed the ARM926EJ-S core and the ARM946E-S microprocessors)
November 26, 2001... ARM (LSE: ARM; Nasdaq: ARMHY), a provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, and Fujitsu Limited, a provider of Internet-based IT solutions, have announced that Fujitsu has licensed the ARM926EJ-S core and the ARM946E-S core for...

INFINEON AND SONY TO COOPERATE ON CONTACTLESS CHIP CARD ICS.(will jointly develop secure integrated circuits)
November 26, 2001... Infineon Technologies (FSE/NYSE:IFX), a supplier of chip card integrated circuits (ICs), and Sony Corporation will jointly develop secure integrated circuits (ICs) for contactless chip card systems. Combining Sony's contactless chip card...

ADC: HIGHEST-DENSITY VOIP GATEWAY FOR COST-EFFECTIVE FUTURE-PROOF EVOLUTION TO IP CABLE TELEPHONY.(Cuda Packet Telephony Module)(Product Announcement)
November 26, 2001... ADC (Nasdaq:ADCT; www.adc.com), a global supplier of fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services for broadband, multiservice networks, has announced the Cuda Packet Telephony Module (PTM) for the Cuda 12000 IP Access...

RE-ENERGIZED RIMAGE DESKTOP CD-R/DVD-R PUBLISHERS RELEASED.(Desktop Publisher DTP package)(Product Announcement)
November 26, 2001... Rimage Corporation (Nasdaq:RIMG) is now shipping a completely re-energized Desktop Publisher line. Among the significant changes is the inclusion of the new Rimage QuickDisc(SM) software; a switch from SCSI to the faster FireWire (officially...

ETNUS TOTALVIEW TO SUPPORT IA-64 AND INTEL COMPILERS FOR LINUX.(Etnus TotalView debugger)(Product Announcement)
November 26, 2001... Etnus, a supplier of debuggers for complex code, recently announced that the Etnus TotalView debugger will support Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor architecture. In addition, TotalView will also support Intel's recently released compilers...

STMICRO INTRO DEV KIT; PROVIDES CHEAP SOLUTION FOR DESIGNERS OF USB FLASH CARD WRITERS.(ST92163-DEMO/MS microcontroller)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 26, 2001... STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has introduced a turn-key development kit that offers designers a solution for rapid development of low-cost flash memory-card writers that plug into a PC's Universal Serial Bus (USB) port. The resulting card...

U.S. ARMY EQUIPS ITSELF WITH SCM MICROSYSTEMS' SMART CARD READERS FOR SECURE ID.
November 26, 2001... SCM Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCMM; Neuer Markt: SMY), a provider of solutions that open the Digital World, and Logicon, a Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) company, recently announced they are working together to supply smart card readers to the...

INTEGRAL SYSTEMS GROUP SHARES NASA 'SOFTWARE OF THE YEAR' AWARD.
November 26, 2001... An Integral Systems, Inc. team supporting NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, is part of a group that was selected co-winner of NASA's Software of the Year Award 2001. The Integral team has been working for two years to support Glenn's...

HARRIS CORP/BAE SYSTEMS DEPLOY TACTICAL CDL PROTOTYPE ON U.S.S. CONSTELLATION.
November 26, 2001... Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) and BAE SYSTEMS, representing a world partnership in the development of wideband Tactical Common Data Link (TCDL) solutions, recently announced the successful completion of a six-month prototype deployment of...

NETSEC LAUNCHES NEW INTEL SERVICE TO DELIVER REAL-TIME VULNERABILITY REPORTING.
November 26, 2001... NETSEC, the premier provider of remotely managed security services for Fortune 1000 and U.S. Federal Government agencies, has announced the launch of its Vulnerability & Patch Advisory (VPA) service, a new addition to NETSEC's suite of...

RAPISCAN: FAA ORDER FOR SECURE 1000 PERSONAL BODY-SCANNER SYSTEMS.
November 26, 2001... Rapiscan Security Products, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of OSI Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:OSIS) and a provider of security solutions to airports, customs facilities, correctional facilities, and governments, announced recently that the FAA has...

SONIC FOUNDRY TO EXPAND OFFERING FOR GOVERNMENT SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE MARKETPLACE.
November 26, 2001... Sonic Foundry (Nasdaq:SOFO), a provider of media software, systems and services, will demonstrate new software designed to help government agencies streamline the capture, analysis and management of disparate types of media -- including both...

MILLER ON PROCUREMENT.(Column)
November 26, 2001... Your skills with FAR 9.1 may save you bacon. Govt employees often have little business sense and skills and don't comprehend such esoteric items as cash flow and quality control. They far too often award to firms which are shipping their first...

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems.(Space and Missile Systems Center contract)(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, Santa Maria, Calif., is being awarded an $11,804,802 cost-plus-award-fee contract modification to provide for Integrated Range Information Service support designs and procure and implement hardware, software and...

Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded an $8,213,000.(Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded an $8,213,000 (not-to-exceed) firm-fixed-price contract modification to provide for the incorporation of the fiber optic high-speed data bus (fibre channel) capability into the Peace...

C-Cubed Corp.(Naval Air Systems Command contract)(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... C-Cubed Corp., Springfield, Va., is being awarded a $9,723,129 modification to exercise an option to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee term contract N00421-01-C-0125 for approximately 204,000 man-hours of technical and engineering...

Science Applications International Corp.(U.S. General Services Administration contract)
November 26, 2001... Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), McLean, Va., was awarded on Oct. 24, 2001, a $114,181,522 cost-plus-fixed-fee task order under the U.S. General Services Administration Federal Technology Service's multiple-award,...

Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $23,500,000.(Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)(Brief Article)
November 26, 2001... Lockheed Martin Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $23,500,000 (maximum) indefinite delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide for the Future Architecture Concept for Information/Integration Technologies...