Emerging Tech

The most highly glorified technologies sometimes never seem to make a hard-hitting impression with enterprises. Is this the case with gigabit Ethernet?

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Symantec Corp. provides a range of content and network security solutions to individuals and enterprises. The company bills itself as a world leader in Internet security technology and a leading provider of virus protection, risk management, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote management and mobile code detection technologies. In Canada, the firm enjoys 57 per cent of the market share for anti-virus software.

3Com Corp. this month introduced a new version of its IP PBX with five times the user capacity of its current NBX 100 LAN telephony box. Also on tap are new NBX handsets that allow users to make calls by beaming phone numbers from a Palm device to the phone.

Two of the biggest issues facing IT managers today are migration to Windows 2000 and support for the remote/mobile user, according to Cognet Corporation.

A discussion on call centres brings to mind a vision of scores of computer terminals in a room with a person sitting behind each and every one of those terminals wearing a headset. The call centre representatives are busily tapping on keys as they try to keep up with the demand of people who have either called in for help or are the target of telemarketing pitches.

Computer thieves beware! Beefing up its theft-recovery and PC tracking software, Absolute Software Corp. recently released Computrace version 8.0, complete PC Asset Tracking.

Network management vendors used ComNet 2001 to launch everything from security monitoring to improved network problem-tracking tools aimed at helping users bolster existing management systems.