Infrastructure

Security experts have criticized Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. for pushing their own proprietary technologies instead of relying on open-standards protocols.

The next iteration of the World Wide Web is a do-it-yourselfer

HP has introduced two servers and announced a refresh of its entire Integrity server line with the first dual-core Itanium processor, a chip that promises better performance, improved energy efficiency and advanced features such as hardware-based virtualization.

Mid-sized and large companies, faced with growing traffic over their WANs, are familiar with the options: compress, accelerate, or build.

Juniper Networks Inc. and Symantec Corp. will jointly work on unified threat management (UTM) and intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) products, and in the long term will extend their partnership to anti-virus and threat detection.

Business battles are fought in real time, and IS must keep pace. Real-time business intelligence infrastructures promise a never-ending stream of fresh information, insight and decision support to frontline knowledge workers.

In a continuing bid to capture some of the tape-backup market, Microsoft Corp. released a beta version of the upgrade to its file-and-application server recovery software, which includes support for a wider range of the company's server products.

Oracle Corp. released Version 4.5 of BerkeleyDB, the embedable database it acquired through the purchase of SleepyCat Software Inc. New features include multiversion concurrency control for databases often accessed by many users at once, the ability to install upgrades and patches in replicated BerkeleyDB environments without taking the database off-line and a prebuilt replication environment for easier deployment of high-availability systems.