April Jacobs

Looking for a way to hand out pocket-sized computers to your employees and implement all the back-end software you'll need to support them? If so, then Compaq Computer Corp.'s new wireless framework program, announced this week, may be the answer.

Dell Computer Corp. last month rolled out Layer 2 switches aimed at small to midsize customers with small IT staffs that need simple, plug-and-play and easy-to-maintain network gear.

A slew of companies have announced Web acceleration products aimed at speeding up content delivery to end users from intranets, Web and e-commerce sites.

Last month was a relatively active one for the peer-to-peer (P2P) computing market, with the Peer-to-Peer Working Group electing members, companies announcing products and Sun Microsystems Inc. and others making noise at an O'Reilly conference focused on P2P.

F5 Networks Inc. last month announced two products aimed at users who want to speed secure transaction processing on their Web and e-commerce sites.

Looking to give enterprise users more speed and a clear upgrade path to its larger boxes, Hewlett-Packard...

 

CacheFlow Inc. last month rolled out cache devices aimed at reducing response times of and cutting corporate bandwidth costs for accessing content and Web-based applications over the WAN.