Infrastructure

When Tristan Goguen, president of Toronto-based Internet Light and Power (ILAP), an Internet service provider, told a corporate client he would be speaking with a journalist about mainframe technology, the client, not surprisingly, responded with,

Microsoft Corp. Thursday for the first time announced the timeframe for shipment of its Longhorn Server and unveiled a partial list of its capabilities as part of a five-year roadmap that includes a plan to release feature-packed server updates between major versions of the operating system.

Foundry Networks Inc. at Networld+Interop this week launched a line of enterprise access router, VPN and firewall gear for enterprises seeking an alternative to market-leader Cisco Systems Inc. for WAN connectivity and security.

The online CRM space is suddenly getting crowded as two more CRM vendors, Kana Software Inc. and Entellium Corp., are launching hosted services this week.

To help retailers increase the efficiency of their IT systems and improve the customer experience, IBM Corp. and German business software vendor SAP AG have agreed to form a global, nonexclusive technology alliance.

Two weeks after announcing plans to integrate an Ethernet switch from Cisco Systems Inc. into its BladeCenter servers, IBM Corp. on Tuesday will announce a similar deal with Brocade Communications Systems Inc. to create new integrated Fibre Channel switches for the same line of high-density servers.

IBM Corp. is looking to broaden its Workplace architecture for component-based application delivery beyond the Lotus portfolio in which Workplace got its start.

Nortel Networks Corp. has yet another IP router play and this time it thinks it has a winner. The Multiservice Provider Edge (MPE) 9000 platform