Infrastructure

Compuware Corp. and Segue Software Inc. this week are bolstering their application management wares, with Compuware finding ways to boost performance without increasing a user's equipment expenses and Segue managing application quality.

After suffering the slings and arrows of Gartner Inc. and others who questioned its value in early 2003, it looks as if CRM is coming back with a vengeance

In a turnabout forced by pressure from HP e3000 users, Hewlett-Packard Co. has reopened the possibility of enabling users to convert existing HP 9000 hardware into e3000 systems that run the propriety MPE operating system and its applications.

Cisco Systems Inc., the undisputed king of the enterprise networking market, is setting its sights on a smaller fry with the launch of an SMB initiative this week.

Toshiba Corp. has developed a hard disk drive for notebook computers that can hold 100G bytes of data. The company expects to begin selling it later this year, it said Thursday.

Cisco Systems Inc. plans to unveil by June its next-generation Internet core router, a key part of the company's bid to retain its sizable market lead in the face of growing competition from Juniper and others.

A network capacity timebomb with the potential to cripple businesses if left unchecked awaits Australian enterprises, leading industry figures warned last week. It is an impending crisis similar to Telstra Corp. Ltd.'s infamous BigPond e-mail fiasco, they said.

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