Infrastructure

OASIS is working on standard technology to enable Web services to function in situations in which business process communications have a delayed response, as opposed to the quick responses normally associated with Web services, an OASIS official said this week.

Hewlett-Packard Co. has promised to build a core switch using high-speed technology it has acquired from Riverstone Networks. Not just any core switch, though. Although it will be a chassis switch, it will be based on a low-cost high-speed architecture which puts intelligence at the edge instead of focusing on expensive centralized intelligence in the manner of Cisco Systems Inc. The company also announced upgrades to its existing network products.

In order to cope with the estimated three million transactions across its IT infrastructure each month, upping the level of automation was almost an automatic decision, according to one...

At its Summit 200 user conference last month, Information Builders Inc. (IBI) announced the availability of its business performance management (BPM) framework, formally marking the company

Montreal-based outsourcing services provider CGI Group Inc. has inked two 10-year deals with insurance companies in the U.K. and the U.S.

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South Korean regulators searched the offices of Microsoft Corp.'s subsidiary in that country on Thursday in connection with a probe into the vendor's bundling of instant messaging software with the Windows operating system.

Whatever size and type of network you run, a traffic analyzer for it was released this week.