Infrastructure

Oh, I know, "change is the only constant, et cetera, et cetera."

It has been over a year since Henning Kagermann assumed the mantle as SAP AG's leader after Hasso Plattner, its founder and co-chief executive officer, stepped down. In that time, Kagermann has led the company through a tough business environment in 2003 to the solid first-quarter results SAP recently reported on the back of strong growth in sales of its enterprise resource planning software products in the U.S.

Among the numerous solicitors looking to sell communication equipment to enterprises, it seems the voice over IP (VoIP) test-gear vendors are following the well-worn path to the network manager's door.

A Canadian company has developed a security system that protects previews and special events footage as they're beamed from satellites directly into cinema-house projector rooms.

The brain behind Cisco Systems Inc.'s hardware is getting a lobotomy. Development teams at Cisco are sticking the proverbial icepick in its Internetwork Operating System (IOS) and carving it up into modules, which one industry insider says will increase performance of hardware such as routers and save users money.

Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. on Thursday announced several integrated products to aid in the on-demand trend within data centres, an announcement that one customer is already taking advantage of.

Adtran Inc. is expanding its assault on low-end network gear for businesses, joining 3Com Corp., Enterasys Networks Inc. and others hoping to relieve Cisco Systems Inc. of some of its cost-conscious small- and midsize business customers.

Companies can save money on server load balancers (SLBs) if they know a thing or two about their software infrastructure before making the purchase, according to a report from Forrester Research Inc.