NewsHosting news - 06 May 2002 - Listing Page: 3478

Lockheed Martin Wins Medicare IT Contract - 📅 May 6, 2002 - Lockheed Martin Corporation (lockheedmartin.com) announced on Friday that it has won a 7.5 year contract to provide information technology and infrastructure support for the federal government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).





Under the $401 million Consolidated Information Technology Infrastructure Contract (CITIC), says Lockheed Martin, CMS has combined multiple agency contracts, currently performed by several contractors, in an effort to improve the ...

Convergia Selects Global Crossing for Data, Voice, Co-location Services - 📅 May 6, 2002 - Network services firm Global Crossing (globalcrossing.com) said today it had signed a $20 million agreement with Montreal-based Convergia Networks, which specializes in broadband and communications solutions, to provide the company with a combination of data network and voice services across the Americas.



The two-year contract was signed in March, with service expected to begin this month. Under the agreement, Global Crossing will provide Convergia with numerous network ...

French Government selects Akamai for Web Portal - 📅 May 3, 2002 - France's Ministry of Interior has selected Akamai Technologies, Inc., (Akamai.com) a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software, to power its new Web portal, www.interieur.gouv.fr.



The new portal was designed to make the Ministry's communications more accessible and dynamic, especially during times of crisis; increase the level of interactivity with Internet users; and provide easier access to many information and administration ...

IBM eServer Top Performer in Java Benchmark Test - 📅 May 3, 2002 - IBM (ibm.com) announced on Friday that an IBM eServer machine outperformed systems from competing manufacturers in the SPECjbb2000 server-side Java benchmark.





IBM says an eight-way IBM eServer p660 set a new record for midrange systems, defined as two eight-way servers with an average selling price of between $25,000 and $250,000, achieving 93,272 operations per second and defeating an eight-way HP rp7410 by nine percent. IBM says the p660 is the first midrange server ...

dock.net Opens New Expanded Data Center Facility - 📅 May 3, 2002 - Ventura County-Based ISP dock.net (dock.net) announced on Thursday that it has successfully moved into its new expanded facility and data center, allowing it to offer extended broadband and co-location services.





One of Southern California's leading independent ISPs, serving Ventura, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernadino and Riverside counties and providing nationwide dialup services, dock.net says it now has a data center capable of housing hundreds of ...

Covad Announces First Quarter Improvements - 📅 May 3, 2002 - National communications company Covad Communications Group Inc. (covad.com -> gtt.net) announced on Thursday that it had released its financial results for the first quarter of 2002, highlighting increased revenues and a decreased loss, as well the company's first quarter of positive gross margin.





Revenue for the quarter ending March 31, 2002 was $101.7 million, says Covad, a 42.7 percent increase over the first quarter of 2001 and a 13.6 increase over the quarter ending December ...

CERT Finds Security Gap in Sun Solaris - 📅 May 3, 2002 - The CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University (cert.org), which provides technical advice and coordinates responses to Internet security issues, said this week it had found a security vulnerability that affects Sun Solaris versions 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, and 8.



The potential security gap is a format string vulnerability in the rwall daemon, a utility that is used to listen for wall requests on a network. The vulnerability could potentially allow hackers to execute code ...

The webhost industry: week review - 📅 May 3, 2002 - The downbeat news seemed almost nonstop sometimes this week, as several companies announced management changes, job cuts and big quarterly losses as Web hosts and telcos continued to struggle with a reduction in IT spending.

Probably the biggest news of the week in that sense was the resignation of Bernard Ebbers, the 60-year-old CEO who built WorldCom into one of the world's top telecommunications companies. On Monday, WorldCom announced that Ebbers had resigned his position as ...

Onerail Selects Q9 Networks For Mission-Critical Web Hosting - 📅 May 3, 2002 - Managed infrastructure and services firm Q9 Networks (Q9.com said today it would provide Onerail Canada, which provides systems integration and project management services to railway firms, with fully managed Web hosting services.



Onerail manages booking systems for numerous high-profile clients, including VIA Rail Canada and the Orient Express Group. The company has offices in Canada, Australia and Ireland.

"Because Onerail provides booking services for global ...

Network Associates, ISS Form Security Partnership - 📅 May 3, 2002 - Network security and availability solution provider Network Associates Inc. (networkassociates.com) and network intrusion detection and security assessment provider Internet Security Systems Inc. (iss.com) announced on Thursday that they have formed a strategic alliance to deliver integrated security products and services.





Through the alliance, Network Associates intends to Internet Security Systems? RealSecure intrusion detection technology with network fault isolation ...