Infrastructure

Oh, I know, "change is the only constant, et cetera, et cetera."

A Canadian company has developed a security system that protects previews and special events footage as they're beamed from satellites directly into cinema-house projector rooms.

The brain behind Cisco Systems Inc.'s hardware is getting a lobotomy. Development teams at Cisco are sticking the proverbial icepick in its Internetwork Operating System (IOS) and carving it up into modules, which one industry insider says will increase performance of hardware such as routers and save users money.

Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. on Thursday announced several integrated products to aid in the on-demand trend within data centres, an announcement that one customer is already taking advantage of.

Adtran Inc. is expanding its assault on low-end network gear for businesses, joining 3Com Corp., Enterasys Networks Inc. and others hoping to relieve Cisco Systems Inc. of some of its cost-conscious small- and midsize business customers.

Companies can save money on server load balancers (SLBs) if they know a thing or two about their software infrastructure before making the purchase, according to a report from Forrester Research Inc.

To meet growing demand for supercomputing services, IBM Corp. opened a new high-capacity centre in Europe on Friday

Google Inc.'s free e-mail service, Gmail, has received a huge amount of interest in the recent weeks thanks mostly to its claim that it will offer 1GB of storage to each user.