Infrastructure

3Com Corp. on Monday announced its highest-performance LAN switch to date, as it continues to woo large corporate users through a joint venture with Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies Co.

With more than 29,000 computer workstations scattered across the province, the government of British Columbia decided to look into proper asset management.

Despite firmly stating it would end support for its Windows 98, Windows 98 SE and Windows Me platforms in January 2004, Microsoft Corp. announced Monday it will extend the support of these operating systems until June 2006 in order to bring Windows 98 SE into compliance with its current product support lifecycle policy.

Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) on Monday will begin shipping a new, smaller member of its Altix family of technical computing servers, called the Altix 350.

Poised to grow to US$1.2 billion in 2004 up from US$719 million in 2003, the worldwide market for biometric technology is going to see some major growth through 2008, according to a soon-to-be-released report from the International Biometric Group LLC (IBG).

Business information software company Business Objects SA announced a roadmap for integrating its own products with those of Crystal Decisions Inc., which it bought last July.

Apple Computer Inc. continued to muscle its way into the enterprise this week as it unveiled at the MacWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco three new models of its Xserve with 2GHz, G5 processors from IBM Corp. at its core.

A British Columbia Institute of Technology report describes a substantial increase in computer-based attacks on critical industrial IT infrastructure since 2000.