Arbor Networks Announces Strategic Partnership With Switzerland's Netcloud AG
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Arbor Networks(R), a leading provider of core-to-core network security and operational performance for global business networks, today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Swiss networking and telephony specialists Netcloud AG.
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Fujitsu and Cisco have announced that they have reached an agreement to enter into a strategic alliance to carry out joint development of high-end routers, plan future cooperation in routing and switching, and collaborate on quality improvement.
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(InfoWorld) - IBMÂ is looking to increase its business with telecommunications operators with the unveiling of products, including a security bundle and a blade server, specially tailored to their needs. The vendor made the announcements late Sunday in conjunction with two conferences taking place this week: Telecom World 2006, organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Hong Kong, and TeleManagement Forum, taking place in Dallas. As telecom operators provide more and more sophisticated services such as VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and online gaming, they're moving away from in-house developed technology and looking to third-party vendors to supply them with wide-ranging management capabilities. IBM is hoping its new offerings will appeal to established carriers and new entrants to the market, according to Scott Sobers, program director of the company's service provider industry. "They're all looking to lower costs, generate new areas of revenue and increase the quality of their service," he said. IBM's Telecom Core Infrastructure Security Solution is a tightly integrated bundle of IBM and third-party software running on IBM's BladeCenter blade servers. The bundle allows telecom operators to monitor their networks and the traffic flowing over them to pick up early on anomalies that could signify security attacks. The bundle will give carriers a "top-down, single pane of glass" view into the health of their network operations, Sobers said. Previously, carriers looking to obtain such insight into their networks would've had to integrate the different software products themselves. The Telecom Core Infrastructure Security Solution brings together IBM's Tivoli Security Operations Manager and Tivoli Netcool with Narus' NarusInsight Secure Suite. IBM acquired the Netcool technology through itsÂ $865 million purchase of Micromuse, which closed in February, and has bought five other software vendors with telecom expertise over the past 12 months. Just last week,Â IBM announced plans to buyÂ network performance monitoring and service management software vendor Vallent. All these moves further solidify IBM's commitment to the telecom market, according to Sobers. IBM has also made improvements to its Netcool/Precision and Netcool/Proviso performance management and availability management software, adding support for multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) networks, Sobers said. The vendor additionally previewed a new BladeCenter HT blade server due to ship in the second quarter of 2007. IBM has designed the blade to meet industry recommendations such as the European Telecommunications Standard Institute standard as well to handle a variety of environmental conditions including high temperatures and electrostatic discharge. IBM didn't provide any pricing details for its new offerings. Â
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Network General Corp is to announce a product suite adding application and services performance to its core protocol analysis technology, as well as an architectural initiative for the future federation of its data to other systems such as security or compliance platforms.
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The two mobile broadband firms partner on a nationwide network.
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EarthLink confirmed Friday that its partner in Helio, SK Telecom, had agreed to invest up to $270 million in the wireless venture.
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AT&amp;T, the US telecoms group, and a team of subcontractors have won a contract valued at up to $1bn to design, build and manage a secure IP-based global network for the US government
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Completing acquisition, Netgear will ship Infrant's desktop and rackmount network-attached system.
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Network security vendor Arbor Networks has reached an agreement to acquire Ellacoya Networks, a provider of broadband optimization products, the companies announced Thursday.
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Red Hat to incorporate Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Certificate Management System into products to help customers integrate desktops with a networkwide set of computing services.
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Lucent Technologies said Thursday that it will partner with Ethernet equipment maker Riverstone Networks to round out its product lineup.
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Microsoft Corp.  on Tuesday  said it has set a communications alliance with Canada&#039;s Nortel  Networks Corp.  the latest step in Microsoft&#039;s  drive to promote software as a way to simplify how workers  communicate.
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Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) said Tuesday it has signed a strategic partnership with Deutsche Telekom as well as two deals worth 450 million euros (317 million dollars) over five years.
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Leveraging IP Network Resources to Enable Next-Generation Corporate Communications.
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Airespace, a Silicon Valley telecom services start-up, won a partnership with International Business Machines Corp.  that will help Airespace grab a piece of the growing market for WiFi services, the two companies told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Rivals F5 Networks and Redline Networks are announcing new Web-enabled application delivery tools that are designed to accelerate data processing by shifting workloads off of servers.
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(InfoWorld) - Enterprise applications vendor SAP and networking company Cisco Systems are touting their new marketingÂ alliance on governance, risk, and complianceÂ (GRC) business processes as a major milestone in their 18-month-old partnership. "This puts together two giants in their fields," Shai Agassi, president, product and technology group at SAP, said during a Wednesday conference call. "It allows us to look at the GRC problem from top down with [SAP's] processes and information, and from the bottom up with [Cisco's] network and infrastructure, and then connect up the dots." The two companies firmly cemented their budding friendship in May 2005 whenÂ Cisco signed up to licenseÂ SAP's service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform known as Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA). Since that time, the vendors have been discussing a variety of areas for cooperation, but the move to team up on GRC announced Wednesday was driven by their customers, according to Doug Merritt, executive vice president and general manager of SAP's suite optimization products and technology group. Some 80 percent of SAP's customers also use Cisco technology. The move brings together SAP's upcoming trio of new GRC applications with Cisco's service-oriented network architecture (SONA), whichÂ debuted in December. SONA aims to link together all the IT resources in an enterprise's network including servers and storage, building more intelligence into the network through the use of services that operate across all the resources. The new SAP products are GRC Repository and GRC Process Control, due out on Nov. 30, and GRC Risk Management expected to ship sometime in December. Cisco hopes to come out with tools and adaptors to make it easier for customers to use the GRC/Sona combination in the same time frame, said Bill Ruh, vice president of advanced services at Cisco. The relationship is initially focused on SAP and Cisco working with customers and partners in the U.S. and Canada, but the vendors plans to expand the deal to include other geographies, Merritt said. When SAP's products appear later this year, they will be available globally. The vendor has yet to release pricing for the new GRC applications and although it's offering them as separate products, Merritt expects them mostly to be bundled with existing GRC applications such as Compliance Calibrator and Firefighter. SAP is planning other third-party vendor partnership announcements around its GRC offerings, but its executives Wednesday kept emphasizing the "unique" nature of the tie-up with Cisco. Over the past four to five months, the two companies have been working on integrating Cisco's network infrastructure with SAP's application infrastructure. They're also defining use cases or real-life scenarios for deploying the GRC/Sona technology combination, Merritt said. So far, the vendors have developed four to five scenarios, in the areas of how best to ensure confidential data like Social Security numbers is not deliberately or inadvertently leaked within or outside a company and around customer support service level agreements. In recent years, SAP has committed to more collaboration with other IT vendors, Merritt said. "SAP has really changed its stripes; that's hard for a grown tiger to do," he added. For the moment, the GRC Repository is full of SAP compliance policies, but the vendor's keen to establish "an open ecosystem" around the product, encouraging vendors and customers to populate the repository themselves. Merritt expects SAP to make a number of additionalÂ GRC announcementsÂ before year-end where customers will commit to help "prime the pump" for content for the repository, he said. Cisco's Ruh agreed. "Within the repository we can see our policies interacting those of our partners and of SAP; there will be a lot of synergies," he added.