Stories about: Allot

IBM has announced that it is teaming up with Harvard University to launch a new world-wide grid project aimed at finding ways to make solar energy cheaper and more efficient.

Compliance systems provider SteelCloud has launched a one-stop product designed for small to medium businesses (SMBs) looking to roll out a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) throughout their organizations.

Ball State University in the US seems to have solved some videoconferencing problems by installing a new deep-packet inspection device.

As any e-mail administrator will tell you, managing the content of the constant flood of incoming and outgoing messages is only half the battle. The sheer volume of e-mail, coupled with the increasing size of files that users want to send, also puts a staggering load on the network and servers. At the same time, end users are resisting attempts to limit the size of their in-boxes, demanding the right to stash gigabytes of mail and attachments on the server. IT clearly needs a strategy to manage the e-mail flood.

When users at Perini in Framingham, a global construction company, complained early this year about slow performance using critical project management software, IT managers scratched their heads and conducted a little detective work.

The days of the fat, dumb pipe, are over. Server applications, and storage have been shouldering the intelligence and security burden for too long. By Leon Erlanger

There's more to WAN performance than the size of the pipe between offices. By Keith Schultz

A software upgrade for Foundry Networks's ServerIronXL can let users simplify WAN and Internet connection links, configure failover connections and allocate bandwidth for specific applications running over an IP WAN.

Merging the two technologies gives users multiple lines of defence against network attacks.

Allot Communications Ltd. is introducing a high-availability version of its policy enforcement gear to make sure quality-of-service policies remain in tact when a site with two internet connections loses one link.

At this moment, no aspect of enterprise computing deserves more attention than maintaining and storing corporate data. CTOs are increasingly abandoning traditional storage methods for more sophisticated approaches -- primarily SANs (storage area networks) and NAS (network attached storage) devices -- to contain the mountains of data their companies generate.