Stephen Lawson

Highlighting security as a key case in point, Cisco Systems Inc. president and chief executive officer John Chambers told a full house at Networld+Interop on Wednesday evening that networks need to be built with an overall architecture instead of with a series of point products.

Telephony servers now emerging are set to transform enterprise phone systems into just one more service provided through the corporate data centre.

Anyone who thought Microsoft Corp.'s settlement on Friday with long-time nemesis Sun Microsystems Inc. seemed surreal were in for another shocker Monday, when the Redmond, Wash., software giant made some of its source code freely available on the Internet.

Sybase Inc. is set to expand its offerings for remote and mobile systems with the acquisition of XcelleNet Inc. for about US$95 million, the company announced Friday.

Next year may be a big one for regulation of VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) in the U.S., according to some speakers at the Voice on the Net (VON) conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

A jury in Santa Clara, Calif., on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by former employees of IBM Corp. who alleged that the company knowingly exposed them to working conditions that caused cancer.

Cisco Systems Inc. is embracing a global standard for powering network-connected devices over Ethernet, allowing its customers to take advantage of a potential flood of third-party products such as sensors and wireless access points that don't require a conventional wall socket.

IBM Corp.'s customers think big when it comes to network-attached storage (NAS), so the company is scaling up with its latest NAS gateway, which can support at least 224TB of storage, IBM said Tuesday.