Tim Greene

ServGate last week streamlined the pricing of its multi-service security platforms so customers pay a lower flat price for the hardware and security software no matter how many users they support on it.

A startup is launching an appliance that lets help desk staff take control of remote computers without the time-consuming tasks of installing and maintaining...

An emerging category of network equipment is giving network executives more time to install security patches by keeping servers safe until full-blown fixes can be tested and installed.

A Yahoo official recently said the company has new services on tap with major traditional phone carriers that will blend its IP technology with the public switched telephone network.

Cisco is upgrading software on its Catalyst 6500 switches so individual processes on the devices run separately, allowing customers to reboot processes without taking the entire switch offline.

The hardest-hit U.S. Gulf areas were wiped out during and after Hurricane Katrina, though it wasn't for lack of some extraordinary efforts by skeleton carrier crews who remained behind to keep equipment online as windows shattered around them and New Orleans was evacuated.

An industry standard to facilitate corporate VPNs that cross multiple carrier networks could be ready for a vote by year-end.

A start-up founded by three ex-Cisco employees this week is set to announce its first product: a multifunction security device with hardware designed to minimize network performance problems when all functions are switched on, and software applications that run independently so if one fails the rest keep going.