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Intel Demonstrates Infiniband Architecture Solutions - 📅 - Wide
industry support and momentum behind the InfiniBand
architecture and product development will be illustrated
this week with four live demonstrations at Intel Developer
Forum (developer.intel.com/idf),
Fall 2001 in San Jose.



Intel Corporation also announced the addition of an
InfiniBand test development kit for hardware vendors
and the Intel InfiniBand Software Optimization Lab,
which is available to software vendors optimizing
applications for InfiniBand ...
Globaltron Announces Acquisition of Lima's Nexus Comunicaciones - 📅 - Globaltron Corporation
(globaltron.net) announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of Peruvian telecommunications operator Nexus Comunicaciones S.A, expanding its presence in South America.



"This acquisition will allow Globaltron to facilitate
long distance calls from the U.S. to Peru and from
Peru to anywhere in the world," David Sloan,
Globaltron chair, said. "The timing of the acquisition
also is crucial as new telecommunications rules will
soon allow ...
FiberCity Launches Metro DWDM System - 📅 - A new, industry-leading Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) system is now
available for license from FiberCity Networks, Inc.
(fiber-city.com),
a gigabit Ethernet supplier of bandwidth and services with
its own proprietary, fiber-optic technology.



FiberCity says it is manufacturing it in the U.S. for
less than 10 percent of the cost of functionally
similar, commercially available DWDM systems. The
equipment has been validated during the past 10 months
of ...
Hummingbird E-Gateway Expands Server Support - 📅 - Hummingbird Ltd. (hummingbird.com) a
world-leading enterprise software company, yesterday
announced the release of Hummingbird e-Gateway 1.1,
its portal-integrated, dynamic HTML, Web-to-Host
solution.



e-Gateway 1.1 introduces a number of enhancements to
solution functionality and scalability. In addition to
supporting Windows-based servers, rejuvenated legacy
applications residing on Sun Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 can
now be published on, and viewed in, a ...
Fireman?s Fund Selects CGI for 10-Year IT Outsourcing Contract - 📅 - Fireman's Fund Insurance Company (firemansfund.com),
a subsidiary of Allianz AG of Munich, has selected CGI Group Inc.
(cgi.ca), for a
10-year, information technology outsourcing contract.
The major terms and conditions of the contract have
been agreed upon and the contract is expected to be
finalized by October 2001. The contract is currently
valued at a range of US $350 to 400 million.



As part of the agreement, CGI will provide Fireman's
Fund with IT support ...
Clustra and RLX Team to Simplify Always-On Cluster Database - 📅 - Clustra Systems, Inc. (clustra.com),
a leading provider of always-on technology, yesterday
announced it has joined forces with RLX Technologies
(rlxtechnologies.com),
a leader in high-density, energy-efficient servers, to streamline the
implementation of always-on distributed applications.
The companies say the Clustra DataCenter database
appliance, combined with the RLX products such as the
RLX System 324, sets a new standard for Linux cluster
database solutions, enabling anyone to ...
Siemens Expands AT&T Outsourcing Agreement to North America - 📅 - AT&T (att.com) announced today that
it has been awarded a six-year, $100 million contract
by Siemens Business Services (sbs.siemens.com), a
wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens AG, to manage the
company's information technology network
infrastructure throughout the U.S. and Canada.



The agreement represents the second phase of a global
outsourcing agreement negotiated a year ago by SBS and
AT&T to transform Siemens' global communications
network to a state-of-the-art ...
Microsoft Introduces 64-Bit Computing - 📅 - Microsoft Corp. (microsoft.com) has
announced the general availability of Microsoft
Windows Advanced Server, Limited Edition, Microsoft's
first server offering for the 64-bit computing
environment based on Intel Corp.'s (intel.com) Itanium
processor. This new addition to the Windows server
platform represents strong industry support for
Itanium-based computing and a commitment to providing
customers with a reliable and scalable
enterprise-class operating system based on ...
Netopia Combines Broadband, Routing, Backup Into Single Device - 📅 - Netopia, Inc. (netopia.com), a market
leader in broadband gateways and web platform software
designed for small, medium and distributed
enterprises, yesterday announced the first single box
broadband, routing, integrated backup and security
suite of products for under $1000, created as part of
Netopia's efforts to help service providers meet the
needs of the growing distributed enterprise market.



The R5320XL, R7220XL, and R9120XL single-box solutions
combine the speed ...
Qwest and Loudcloud Team to Deliver Managed Hosting Services - 📅 - Qwest Communications International Inc. (qwest.com 👉 Total Reviews: 1
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-> lumen.com), the broadband communications company, and Loudcloud, Inc., (loudcloud.com), a
leading managed services provider, have announced a
strategic alliance that will deliver to corporations a
flexible managed services solution, from the network
through the hosted Web application. Qwest expects the
agreement to generate approximately $260 million of
incremental services over the next five years.



Under the five-year agreement, ...