Infrastructure

Interlink Networks Inc. and Trapeze Networks Inc. announced on Tuesday that they have partnered to help large enterprises get over the hurdle of 802.11 wireless LAN (WLAN) deployment.

Enterprise users can now download an update of SuSE Linux's AG enterprise server software that offers improved hardware support and enhanced storage access.

In an effort to simplify storage for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), Hewlett-Packard Co. announced this week it has added two new products to its StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) family and created four new packaged solutions by combining the MSA products with its ProLiant servers.

IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and other vendors that have been pounding the Web services drum for more than two years claim that more and more of their customers are building Web services. But the spotty levels of commitment by corporate users was plainly evident based on recent comments by 15 IT professionals at Gartner Inc.'s Application Integration and Web Services Summit.

EMC Corp announced this week that it was investing US$100 million in India over the next five years.

Hitachi Data Systems Corp. has partnered with McData Corp. to offer small-and medium-sized enterprises a lower cost alternative for FC SANs, the Hitachi TrueNorth iSCSI SAN Solution. SMEs cannot afford FC SANs. The HDS iSCSI SAN includes the Hitachi Thunder 9570V modular storage system, the McData Eclipse 1620 SAN internetworking switch, and enablement services.

The upcoming holiday shopping season promises to be a busy one not just for Internet retailers, but for opportunistic online fraudsters and identity thieves as well.

Lucent Technologies Inc. this week bundled its voice-over-IP products and services under a common brand umbrella and said Qwest Communications International Inc. plans to deploy the technology as the foundation for its VoIP services.