Growing interest in SIP-enabled communications -- from VOIP to SIP-based collaboration apps such as Microsoft's LCS (Live Communications Server) 2005 -- has sparked the need to better secure SIP traffic.
Planning for business continuity means weighing risk: What systems can your customer’s business not live without? How can they get access to that data or computing power should something happen? And, perhaps most importantly, how much do they want to spend to have a backup plan — a plan that they, hopefully, might never need?
Planning for business continuity means weighing risk: What systems can your customer’s business not live without? How can they get access to that data or computing power should something happen? And, perhaps most importantly, how much do they want to spend to have a backup plan — a plan that they, hopefully, might never need?
Peer-to-peer (P-to-P) technology, the type of system that Napster uses, is moving into the e-business and business-to-business world, trying to shake the stigma associated with the Napster copyright controversy. Because P-to-P links multiple data sites into one network and can search all those sources, no matter where they may be located, customers can quickly find exactly what they're looking for, thus eliminating some of the frustration involved in tracking down the content or products they need.
Citing a quest for quality, Microsoft last week delayed the release of its Exchange 2000 Server messaging platform, moving the expected availability from an August release to sometime nearer the end of the year.
Another e-mail worm, known as vbs_stages.a ,as well as irc_stages.a and shs_stages.a, is quickly making its way through businesses in Asia, North America and Australia, once again affecting Microsoft Outlook systems.
Novell has added new platform-support and list-server functionality to the Novell Internet Messaging System (NIMS), which is tailored for service providers.
Disappointing results trigger new go-to-market strategies and management changes
Citing reasons ranging from channel sale declines and internal management troubles to the introduction of Microsoft's Windows 2000, Novell yesterday announced that it will report "significantly lower-than-anticipated revenue and earnings" for the second quarter of 2000, which ended April 30.
New platform sees collaboration and interoperability between Lotus and Microsoft
Following a trend toward personalisation, Lotus Development yesterday unveiled its Portal Builder for Notes Release 5 (R5), a set of templates and Best Practices Guide that helps Notes R5 users add a custom touch to their Notes environment.
Novell this week released NDS eDirectory for Windows 2000, approximately two weeks after the Microsoft platform made its debut.
The Sun-Netscape Alliance on Monday unveiled the iPlanet Wireless Server, which gives service providers the ability to offer customers wireless e-mail, calendar, and directory services customised to specific devices.
Consortium opts for mix of the old with the new in Web programming language specs
The delay of Microsoft's Windows 2000 release may give Novell a leg-up in the enterprise directory interoperability race, with Cisco Systems not slated to deliver Active Directory on Unix platforms until after Windows 2000's planned release in February.
