Network management software company SolarWinds on Tuesday updated its flagship Orion software, with a focus on making it easier to monitor large or geographically distributed networks.

WildPackets this week introduced a highly extensible data recorder for 10 Gigabit (10Gig) Ethernet networks, the latest sign that 10Gig networks are gaining wider acceptance, even among medium-sized businesses.

Endeavors Technologies has taken a step toward commoditising the emerging technology of application streaming with a free, fully functional version of its Application Jukebox product.

Dutch broadband start-up Worldmax on Tuesday demonstrated what it said is Europe's first mobile WiMax network, built by Alcatel-Lucent over the past five months and set to go fully online at the end of this summer.

Telephony has at last become an IT product, claimed Nortel as it announced SCS500, an open source-based unified communications suite for small and mid-sized businesses.

An entrepreneur, frustrated at the inability of event-based email to produce any decent record of delivery, has developed what he calls "an enterprise-grade event-based email system" called TriggerMail.

Buffalo Technology has become the latest vendor to take rack-mounted NAS (Network-attached storage) to the masses, announcing a new server series, the TeraStation Pro II Rackmount.

Only 16 percent of British small business managers think that the Internet has increased their operational efficiency, while nearly half think that it has made running their businesses more complex. That's according to s study carrried out by the Cranfield School of Management on behalf of Pipex Business.

Single sign-on specialist Imprivata has added distributed management features and the ability to link network security to physical security systems.

Companies should expect to be able to reduce their software costs significantly over the next 10 years, as new factors loosen the traditional hold of software makers over their customers, according to Gartner.