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Cisco's 6-year-old Self-Defending Network strategy for securing converged networks remains a work in progress: Acquisitions and internal developments are moving it forward even as customers push Cisco to go above and beyond its initial plans.

It sounded like a no-brainer when we started the project in 2003. The idea was to replace our aging, 155Mbps ATM-over-SONET network with a new network based on 10G Ethernet over dense wavelength division multiplexing.

IBM on Thursday unveiled a US$1 billion-a-year service initiative aimed at building and redesigning data centers that consume less energy.

Cisco Systems used the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco to trumpet its transformation from "packet pusher" to "infrastructure" company, unveiling a string of product updates that unify its diverse security portfolio on Monday.

Hewlett-Packard's HP Labs research centre has developed a new approach to cooling data centres by adjusting air conditioning systems to changing server loads more precisely than what's available now.

Bob Worrall was promoted from vice president of IT to CIO of Sun Microsystems six weeks ago, filling a vacancy that arose when Bill Vass was named president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems Federal. Worrall, 45, has come a long way since his first major IT management position at Worlds of Wonder, the San Francisco Bay area toy company that created the popular Teddy Ruxpin animatronic teddy bear in the mid-1980s. He talked with Eric Lai this week about Sun's massive three-year ERP consolidation plans, as well as how Sun has prepared for the coming flu season.

Consumers sending queries to some Fortune 100 companies' sites could probably get a more rapid response by driving to the airport, booking a flight to the company's headquarters and talking to a customer representative there, a new study reveals.

The growing corporate demand for Web services is accelerating IT's shift to component-based software. But the process is complex and time-consuming, and the software architects needed to design these applications are in short supply.

Despite the customer relations fallout from its recent restructuring, 3Com is confident that business will continue as usual. But IT managers are being advised to "look to the channel" for future networking solutions, according to analysts.

3Com announced yesterday that the company has hired a new chief financial officer.

After sitting on their pipes at the start of the Internet explosion, some energy companies have finally decided to jump in.