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Unified Communications Alert
May. 11, 2008
Free e-mail newsletter: Unified communications news and resources from Network World.

Cloud computing: what it will take for start-ups to succeed
May. 05, 2008
With Google's recent launch of its App Engine, and with the likes of IBM and Amazon having staked claims, cloud computing is clearly a major development in the IT landscape. The benefits are obvious, enabling ...

Venture over the Horizon
May. 10, 2008
Discussing Internet start-ups and venture capital in the high-tech world.

Yankee Ingenuity
May. 10, 2008
Yankee Group founder Howard Anderson gives his opinion on venture capital and network happenings.

Storage start-up boasts speed of 1,000 disk drives in one small package
Mar. 31, 2008
A storage start-up called Fusion-io that claims it can deliver speeds 1,000 times faster than a single disk drive is making its first product generally available on April 7 and has secured $19 million in venture capital ...

Start-up secures virtual machine traffic
Mar. 26, 2008
A startup called Montego Networks is launching technology that secures traffic in virtual machines.

Amazon's cloud computing service fuels start-up's launch
Mar. 25, 2008
Start-up Elantra is launching Tuesday with software that helps customers build applications on top of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service.

Start-up Vertica goes after database market with column-oriented system
Feb. 19, 2008
Database start-up Vertica is set to release its column-oriented database optimized for business intelligence queries.

Making it as a management start-up
Feb. 18, 2008
Management technology is an ever-changing mainstay in enterprise IT shops. Network and systems management tools - whether commercial, home-grown or open source - have been put in place to: monitor device and system ...

Virtual management start-up snags $4.6M
Feb. 06, 2008
VKernel lands $4.6 million in Series A funding to further development on its virtual appliance technology designed to manage virtual server environments.

Investors wary of networking start-ups
Jan. 25, 2008
Venture capital money is scarce for networking start-ups, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report.

Like it or not, Web 2.0 is heading for your network
Jan. 16, 2008
The inevitability of Web 2.0, how to attract VC money and if the iPhone will always be cool are topics discussed by DEMO's Chris Shipley in a recent Network World Chat.

Vendor unveils iSCSI storage for SMBs
Sep. 25, 2007
Start-up StorMagic Tuesday announced software designed to make it easy for small- and mid-sized businesses to deploy iSCSI storage-area networks.

WebLOQ launches virtual private community service
Sep. 04, 2007
Start-up WebLOQ is launching a virtual private community service where businesses can securely conduct electronic communications, according to the company.

BreakingPoint unveils BPS-1000 network-test appliance
Jul. 31, 2007
BreakingPoint Systems BPS-1000 offered as Layer 2 to Layer 7 performance and security test tool.

Start-up debuts access-management tools, names Cigna as major adopter
Jun. 19, 2007
Role-base access control can be a management headache as healthcare giant Cigna has discovered. The company is using tools from Aveksa to relieve the pain.

Start-up targets 4TB storage device at consumers
May. 29, 2007
Next month, a start-up called Data Robotics will unveil a storage device for consumers that it claims is easy to install and maintain.

Start-up Teak Technologies targets data-center Ethernet congestion
May. 01, 2007
Start-up Teak Technologies debuted a 10G Ethernet switch for blade servers this week. The hook is a new traffic-management and congestion-detection technology built into the hardware, which, the company says, eliminates ...

Start-up helps provision VoIP QoS
Nov. 07, 2005
Start-up helps provision VoIP QoS

Start-up takes fresh approach to backups
Jul. 18, 2005
Lasso Logic unveils continuous data protection

Buzz 2001: The anti-DDoS prescription, 09/24/01
Sep. 24, 2001
Combating distributed denial-of-service attacks is one of the most difficult network security problems. So start-ups that claim to have DDoS attacks licked tend to be greeted with skepticism.

Yankee Ingenuity
Feb. 20, 2008
Yankee Group founder Howard Anderson gives his opinion on venture capital and network happenings.

Venture over the Horizon
Feb. 20, 2008
Discussing Internet start-ups and venture capital in the high-tech world.

Up-and-down quarter for network company investments, 11/20/00
Nov. 20, 2000
Despite the downturn, third-quarter investments remained slightly higher than in the first quarter and more than double the amount spent in the third quarter of 1999. Altogether, 870 network hardware, software and ...

Up-and-down quarter for network company investments
Nov. 20, 2000
Despite the downturn, third-quarter investments remained slightly higher than in the first quarter and more than double the amount spent in the third quarter of 1999. Altogether, 870 network hardware, software and ...