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CA sounds out on-demand revenue with Sonar
News Ideally, outages will become less frequent and corporations will be able to use their installed base of hardware and software in a much more efficient manner through automated equipment provisioning and servers that can warn of impending equipment...
[July 15, 2003, 10:14]
Moblin v2.1 - new polish or just box ticking the building blocks?
Blog But Bluetooth support, 3G data provisioning, a properly functioning browser, localisation for French, Spanish, German and Chinese - all good, but surely these are not major enhancements, this is just essential box ticking.
[November 6, 2009, 6:28]
Hosting automation to the rescue
News It is powered by Virtuozzo, which offers virtualisation, resource management and clustering features to enable service providers to improve utilization of hardware and fully automate provisioning and system management operations.
[November 22, 2001, 15:59]
Microsoft introduces new Geneva beta
News The beta also improves provisioning of identity tokens, introduces a new claims transformation engine and expands support for SAML. Microsoft introduced the second beta of its Geneva identity-management server platform on Monday, with new features...
[May 12, 2009, 17:03]
Nigeria Telecoms Triple play blues.
Blog In telecommunications, the Triple Play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of the three services: high-speed Internet, television (Video on Demand or regular broadcasts) and telephone service over a single broadband connection.
[March 17, 2008, 8:27]
WLAN standards battle begins again
News A working group in the IETF called the Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points is reviewing the submission along with three others that have previously been submitted from Cisco, Siemens and Panasonic.
[April 11, 2005, 9:55]
Nokia's BlackBerry-killers get Oracle field apps
News Metasolv's biggest contract is with BT Global Services, for whom it acts as a provisioning partner. Several mobile enterprise applications from Oracle have been made available for Nokia's popular E61 smartphone.
[October 25, 2006, 15:40]
Fujitsu launches 18-blade 'Dynamic Cube'
News The management software automates tasks such as the provisioning or exchanging of servers and can deliver the same operations to pools of physical and virtual servers. Fujitsu announced a blade server system on Tuesday that fits up to 18 blades...
[May 12, 2009, 16:51]
Die Hard 5: The Developer Bites Back
Blog Yes application lifecycle management has to feature a good deal of security provisioning and this is closely related to testing and debugging and system stability. Gartner’s latest tenets on the subject of lifecycle management (LM) appear to have...
[May 29, 2008, 0:27]
Is Freeware the new Open Source?
Blog Well, you can snap up a vControl Self-Service Provisioning tool for US$399/socket. As open source technologies continue to pound an increasingly heavier footprint throughout the world’s enterprise IT portals, could we be about to see a new surge in...
[September 2, 2009, 12:47]
Truphone attacks Vodafone over VoIP ban
News The process when we receive such requests is that we have to go through a standard provisioning process, and Truphone has not provided us with all the relevant information," said a company spokesperson, who indicated that Vodafone was "in the...
[May 2, 2007, 13:54]
Australian domain registry bids for .org
News Wright believes AusRegistry is the first registry to go live with a full implementation of the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) version 6. An Australian domain registry is looking to leverage its technical experience Down Under in a bid to...
[July 9, 2002, 9:06]
Access hacks hit UK Plc
News Automating user provisioning appears to work. One in five of the UK's larger companies suffered security breaches of their IT systems in the past year because of weaknesses in their approach to identity management, according to the preliminary...
[March 11, 2004, 9:15]
3CX Phone System for Windows review
Reviews The commercial versions also offer additional functionality including Microsoft Exchange integration, call recording and automatic handset provisioning, connectivity with CRM and ERP applications, plus a web portal to enable users to manage their...
[February 6, 2008, 9:14]
IBM and Cisco forge closer alliance
News IBM, meanwhile, is tweaking its Tivoli Provisioning Manager, Enterprise Workload manager and other products to work smoothly with Cisco's products. IBM and Cisco Systems are getting to know each other a lot better in computing rooms.
[April 29, 2004, 8:40]
Citrix targets VMware users in switchover push
News Citrix Essentials 5.5 was released in June, adding cloning and provisioning features. Citrix on Wednesday announced a package of incentives to encourage companies to switch from VMware's virtualisation products to those supported by Citrix...
[October 15, 2009, 16:07]
Palm OS Cobalt 6.1: a first look review
Reviews Web Browser 3.0 is optimised for smartphones and wireless mobile devices, and includes support for operator-customisable home page and pre-provisioning of bookmarks. PalmSource is pushing Cobalt 6.1 as the foundation for smartphones and new...
[September 30, 2004, 9:00]
Sun wants to open up N1
News Third parties will also be able to write add-on applications that make use of the virtualisation and provisioning tools in N1. Sun Microsystems is working on a mechanism to connect its N1 utility computing software to existing systems management...
[December 23, 2003, 11:10]
Hardware trends may hit software costs
News The other two main hardware trends that will force software prices up are "capacity on demand" and "rapid provisioning" tools to move software between servers with more or less capacity based on workload requirements.
[November 23, 2004, 15:45]
Cisco revamps enterprise mobility architecture
News The Secure Client Manager package is for provisioning and managing client devices, which can range from laptops to smartphones and scanners, and the Mobile Intelligent Roaming package is, according to Pelham, for providing roaming that is "as...
[May 28, 2008, 14:49]
