Nortel Networks has acquired US internet infrastructure provider Alteon WebSystems in a deal worth $7.8m. Nortel plans to use Alteon's content switching products to develop a next generation Internet data center to deliver content over optical and...
HP is set to discontinue a raft of middleware products as it refocuses its post-merger strategy on network management tools. HP's Netaction Application Server, Netaction Web Services Platform and Web Services Registry are all being axed.
Sun Microsystems is set to unveil the storage management component of its N1 plan to gather servers and storage systems into a single pool of computing power today. N1 is a set of products from Sun that are designed to lower the cost of operating...
Enterprise Rent-A-Car is the latest multinational to choose AT&T for far-reaching network. It has signed a three-year $10.5m contract with the provider for a 300-site Frame Relay network. The deal covers locations in Germany, Ireland and the UK and...
Automation software company Opsware on Thursday said it intends to acquire Rendition Networks, a small networking software company, in a deal valued at $33m. Opsware sells software for automatically updating and verifying server configurations.
Cisco Systems announced on Friday it plans to acquire Nemo Systems in a $12.5m cash deal designed to bolster its ability to offer scalable network systems via Nemo's network memory chips. Founded in 2003, privately held Nemo is a fabless...