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Financial services is one of the early commercial markets that top-tier grid computing suppliers are pursuing. Many bread and butter applications used by this industry involve heavy number crunching and are typically used or accessed by thousands of their business partners and clients.

In response to rising attrition and defection rates, financial services companies have made CRM a priority over the past two years, but according to a recent survey, there is work to be done in terms of improving customer loyalty.

Charles Schwab & Co. in December went live with a Linux-based grid computing system in an effort to speed up some of its compute-intensive investment management applications.

Enterasys, a networking company that since its inception has been in a constant state of makeover, may have finally hit upon an identity with which it can live for a long time.

Wide area network (WAN) compression and optimization technology companies are setting up a presence in the Asia Pacific to capitalize on opportunities presented by the growing deployment of IP telephony and other bandwidth intensive enterprise applications in the region.

The concept of Web services has been with the IT community long enough now that it is a known entity, a term that no...

A tiny German software company has thrown some sand in the gears of The SCO Group Inc.'s roaring legal machine.

It's one thing to know your colleagues and customers by name and face. It's quite another to know them by the lengths of their vocal tracts and the ratios of their larynxes to their sinuses.