Friday, Mar 18, 2005
AOL Selects HP for Support & Storage
HP, a technology solutions provider, yesterday announced that America Online, Inc., a provider of Internet technologies and e-commerce services, has selected HP in a competitive bid to be its provider of integrated support services for the company's server and storage technology.
As part of a three-year agreement, HP will provide maintenance and support services for equipment from HP and other vendors in AOL data centers across multiple U.S. locations. HP will manage support for more than 15,000 servers from multiple vendors, which includes support for 9,000 HP servers - including HP Integrity servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors and HP 9000, HP ProLiant and HP NonStop servers - as well as HP workstations.
"HP has been a long-time partner in helping America Online operate world-class services for AOL's customers," said David L. Cole, senior vice president of Systems Operations, America Online, Inc. "HP's flexible and collaborative approach and its ability to provide a single point of management for our multi-vendor environment will positively impact not just our infrastructure, but the speed with which we can respond to the needs of America Online's customers."
"AOL already had a sophisticated technology infrastructure in place, but it wanted to consolidate support contracts from different vendors to manage its server environment at strict service levels, under one service agreement," said Mike Rigodanzo, senior vice president, Technology Services, HP. "This relationship with HP will give AOL more streamlined service delivery, while providing clear savings and achieving simplification, standardization and modularity in its IT environment. These are the building blocks of an Adaptive Enterprise."
Thursday, Mar 17, 2005
NetIBA Offers Consumer Protection Tool
The Internet International Business Authority (NetIBA), a technology-based company to combat Internet fraud, today announced the launch of a new free software product - the Consumer Protection Tool - for consumers and businesses.
The Consumer Protection Tool sits locally as a tray application on consumers' PC desktops, thereby avoiding phishing and other Internet fraud scams, and confirms the identity of the people or organizations consumers are interacting with. The tool verifies web domains, auction sellers, and email identities.
As shoppers surf the web and find an on-line store, the Consumer Protection Tool automatically displays whether the merchant has validated its contact information, including its official company name, physical address, telephone number, and contact name. The NetIBA Consumer Protection tool can be downloaded for free at the website.
Wednesday, Mar 16, 2005
Microsoft to Acquire Groove Networks
Microsoft Corp., a provider of software, services and solutions, today announced that it will acquire Groove Networks Inc., a provider of collaboration software for the 'virtual office'.
The addition of Groove products to the lineup of Microsoft Office System products, servers and services builds on the capabilities of Microsoft's current collaboration products, allowing Microsoft to better meet the needs of organizations of all sizes that increasingly are creating borderless project teams comprising employees, customers, partners, suppliers, contractors and others.
"The acquisition of Groove complements Microsoft's collaboration offerings to include real-time, server-based and peer-to-peer solutions that address the ever-changing and more-complex work environment," said Jeff Raikes, group vice president of Microsoft's Information Worker Group. "Together, Microsoft and Groove will make anytime, anywhere collaboration a more natural and easy extension of how information workers coordinate their projects and document - centric work."
The acquisition also brings to Microsoft the development talent and technology leadership of top Groove executives, including founder Ray Ozzie, a creator of IBM Corp.'s Lotus Notes. Ozzie will assume the role
of chief technical officer, reporting to Bill Gates, Microsoft founder,chairman and chief software architect, with responsibility for influencing corporatewide communication and collaboration offerings and
associated platform infrastructure.
Tuesday, Mar 15, 2005
Novell Releases SUSE LINUX Professional v9.3
Novell, yesterday announced the availability of its latest Linux offering, SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3, due to ship in mid-April, 2005.
SUSE LINUX Professional includes a stable and reliable Linux operating system, and a complete set of desktop applications - office suite, Web browser, e-mail and instant messaging clients, multimedia viewers, photo organizers, and other popular open source applications. It also features the latest tools for setting up a secure home network, running a Web server, developing applications and more.
According to the company, the complete SUSE LINUX distribution delivers the latest Linux technology for standard 32-bit PC processors as well as for AMD Athlon 64 and Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology.
"SUSE LINUX Professional has always been popular among new Linux users and technical enthusiasts who gain access to the latest enhancements to Linux and open source with a cost effective and easy-to-use Linux operating system," said Markus Rex, Vice President of SUSE LINUX for Novell. "SUSE LINUX Professional also provides corporate Linux users a preview of the technologies in Novell's future enterprise Linux and a means of growing their skills to remain competitive in today's IT market."
Monday, Mar 14, 2005
Daffodil Launches Replicator v1.7
Daffodil Software, a provider of database products and synchronization solutions, on wednesday announced the beta release of Daffodil Replicator v1.7, at SourceForge.net.
Daffodil Replicator is an Open Source data synchronization software, and the new version includes features like Pull and Push replication and Different GUI for Publication Server and Subscription Server. It can also be used for sharing workload across enterprise database severs, by mirroring vital data on identical databases.
v1.7 also includes fixed bugs related to System tables & column names, Parent-child relationship when adding tables for Publication and OutOfMemory problem in snapshot.
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