Company issues Universal Application Network 2.0 Siebel Systems is releasing this week version 2.0 of its Universal Application Network (UAN), adding 50 new industry-focused applications to the integration system. Announced one year ago and released in October, UAN offers tailored…

Governments consider proposals to curb growth of offshore outsourcing BANGALORE, India — Outsourcing of IT services and back-end business processes to low-cost countries like India, the Philippines, and Ghana is seen as a big money-saver in corporate boardrooms in the…

Suit seeks more than $10 million in damages AOL Time Warner has filed five lawsuits accusing users of spamming its subscribers with junk e-mail, according to the The Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) online edition Tuesday. The spammers have sent about…

Switches connect over 32Gbps ring with new StackWise architecture See correction below Gigabit Ethernet will reach desktops in Cisco Systems’ latest line of stackable switches, which also can support the nearly unlimited number of IP addresses coming with the IPv6…

Posting the Redundant Redundant piece reminded me of an OSPF-based ISDN dialer backup scenario I designed for a client about three years ago. I haven’t seen this is practice since, but it’s been a significant help to them, as it…

Jared Mauch said it as well as I could. Network administrators trying to add a little bit of protection at the firewall cause an entire /8 to be rendered unusable. I think this points back to my Au Revior, SMTP…

The holy grail of peace of mind: network redundancy. What better way to make sure that hardware failures won’t take the network down than to have two of everything? It stands to reason that if one is good, two are…

Palmisano characterizes quarter as strong IBM missed analysts’ per-share earnings expectations but posted year-over-year income and revenue growth during its just-ended first quarter, the company said Monday. Referring to the “ongoing difficult environment,” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano…

LibertyAlliance readies framework Federated identity and Web services security will dominate the agenda at the annual RSA Conference that kicks off inSan Franciscothis week. RSA, VeriSign, and the Liberty Alliance Project will use the event to launch products that address…

Company reveals Linux support for NetWare, GroupWise SALT LAKE CITY — Novell on Monday showed off a new initiative to embrace open standards and enable cross-platform computing with the adoption of several open-source technologies in current platforms in addition to…