April Jacobs

Articles by April Jacobs

Compaq offers rapid-start wireless program

Looking for a way to hand out pocket-sized computers to your employees and implement all the back-end software you'll need to support them? If so, then Compaq Computer Corp.'s new wireless framework program, announced this week, may be the answer.

Dell boosts Layer 2

Dell Computer Corp. last month rolled out Layer 2 switches aimed at small to midsize customers with small IT staffs that need simple, plug-and-play and easy-to-maintain network gear.

Vendors Focus On Integrated Web Acceleration Devices

A slew of companies have announced Web acceleration products aimed at speeding up content delivery to end users from intranets, Web and e-commerce sites.

Vendors pump P2P

Last month was a relatively active one for the peer-to-peer (P2P) computing market, with the Peer-to-Peer Working Group electing members, companies announcing products and Sun Microsystems Inc. and others making noise at an O'Reilly conference focused on P2P.

F5 debuts its Big-IP secure transaction products

F5 Networks Inc. last month announced two products aimed at users who want to speed secure transaction processing on their Web and e-commerce sites.

HP debuts entry-level Unix server

Looking to give enterprise users more speed and a clear upgrade path to its larger boxes, Hewlett-Packard...

CacheFlow aims to reduce WAN costs

CacheFlow Inc. last month rolled out cache devices aimed at reducing response times of and cutting corporate bandwidth costs for accessing content and Web-based applications over the WAN.

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