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What is the upside of compliance? One consultant told me that compliance is great for his business. (“It’s like Y2K every year,” he explained.) But I’m convinced there are benefits for companies and customers as well—benefits that extend beyond keeping the CEO out of jail and off the front page. You can find a wide range of estimates of the amount of time, money and resources required for corporations to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA or emerging security regulations. I’ve seen estimates ranging from Continue reading →

Users want information provided in a form that’s relevant to their business needs, irrespective of where the data resides.   express delivery   • print  • comment ——————————————————————————–   Enterprise information integration (EII) brings real-time web services into business intelligence (BI) tools, but at a cost: EII can also feed live data to portals and dashboards It can combine data warehouse contents with other data sources Many BI tools use EII to read data from web services feeds Few EII projects take place within an Continue reading →

PHILADELPHIA — Sometimes reform comes in very strange ways. The battle royale between the city of Philadelphia and Verizon over who will provide citywide wireless Internet access plans couldn’t be more confusing. Free-market types have got to root for publicly traded Verizon over any local, politicized branch of government, right? C’mon, isn’t this City Hall we’re talking about — a building wrapped in red tape (as if by Christo)! Their track record teaching our kids, hauling our garbage and running the buses does not portend Continue reading →

Juniper Networks is partnering with Meru Networks and plans to tap the WLAN vendor for joint sales and marketing activities. Meru has joined Juniper’s J-Partner Infrastructure Alliance, a program that already includes wireless vendor Colubris Networks. The Meru/Juniper partnership will focus on wireless VoIP solutions and will begin immediately with collaboration between the two Sunnyvale, Calif.-based companies on joint sales and co-marketing efforts, according to a Meru statement. Neither vendor could be reached for comment regarding channel plans surrounding the partnership. The two companies already Continue reading →

Networking vendor Juniper has adopted Meru’s radical Wi-Fi architecture for voice on Wi-Fi, but speculation continues over the company’s Wi-Fi strategy. As the only large enterprise networking vendor still without a clear strategy for wireless LANs, Juniper has been courted by Wi-Fi vendors who want to provide Juniper’s solution for Wi-Fi LANs. Meru’s distinctive single-channel architecture, which has won the largest ever Wi-Fi voice contract, has now won favour at Juniper, which will co-market it according to a Meru press release. The deal is only Continue reading →

Juniper Networks today said it has inked a partnership with Meru Networks to integrate its line of WLAN and wireless VoIP products with Juniper’s IP routing and security portfolio. Though essentially a marketing and sales deal, the partnership gives Juniper another technology foothold in the enterprise WLAN space, a space dominated by networking competitor Cisco Systems. Under the agreement, Meru will become a preferred member under Juniper’s J-Partner program, Juniper’s name for its sizable web of resellers, strategic alliances, technology partnerships and distributors. The two Continue reading →

A slew of innovative startups are attempting to loosen Cisco Systems Inc.’s (Nasdaq: CSCO – message board) grip on the emerging wireless VOIP market, according to the latest Unstrung Insider. The report — Wireless VOIP: The Path to Enterprise Fixed/Mobile Convergence — assesses vendor development of voice over WLAN (VOWLAN) technology and the recent glut of high-level partnerships among handset, IP telephony, and WLAN infrastructure suppliers that is pushing the pace of integration and interoperability (see VOWLAN Gets a Kickstart and Roll On, Wireless VOIP). Continue reading →

A few weeks ago Meru made the headlines for signing the largest contract to date to build a WiFi voice network. The network would link up to 10,000 staff at 50 offices of Osaka Gas, one of Japan’s largest utilities. The employees will use converged handsets capable of making mobile calls on the Japanese FOMA system and in-building WiFi calls using SIP. Networking vendor Juniper has adopted Meru’s innovative WiFi architecture for voice over WiFi, and perhaps there is a hint here as to Juniper’s Continue reading →

Ember today announced continued global expansion with the opening of new international facilities and the signing of new international customers and distributors. The company also announced some major milestone achievements for the first half of 2005 to further strengthen Ember’s position in the ZigBee wireless networking market. ZigBee is an embedded wireless network standard that solves the unique needs of remote monitoring and control, and sensor network applications.     Ember opened a new research and business facility in Cambridge, England, to accommodate expansion of the Continue reading →