Overview:

Wireless is emerging as one of the single most transformational technologies for business. Rather than being deployed in the context of enabling business communications, IT managers are deploying wireless to facilitate business computing. Wireless spending is now a key component of IT spending and is tied to revenue production, as well. Transformation is occurring both on the company campus and on the road, as mobile workers increasingly use wireless as their primary means of accessing company data.

By Christopher J, Kardish, Principal Research Analyst

This week, Sprint (NYSE: S) and Motorola (NYSE:MOT) released two phones designed to work on both the Sprint and Nextel wireless networks.

While WiFi-cellular dual-mode phones are nothing new – T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) has been trialing their HotSpot@Home service in Washington state since October – cellular-cellular dual-mode phones are something of an anomaly.

In this case, Sprint is trying to wean its Nextel customers off Nextel’s iDEN walkie-talkie network onto Sprint’s CDMA network, which will soon sport high performance push-to-talk.

Published: 03/17/06

July 1, 2004

By Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research, Andreas@nemertes.com

Less than six months after Redhat (NASDAQ: RHAT) acquired Sistina, a storage infrastructure company, it has made good on its promise to release the Global File System (GFS) software suite and its associated management tools under an open source license. GFS is an enterprise-class clustering file system that allows a cluster of Linux servers to share SAN storage across several nodes while retaining data consistency, rapid access, and fault tolerance. Most importantly, GFS is optimized for Oracle’s 9i RAC clustering solution, enabling Oracle RAC to run without local storage on a shared Oracle "home" directory and makes it a lot easier to add or resize storage on-the-fly, or add Oracle servers to meet a sudden spike in demand. The move illustrates a growing trend towards enterprise-class open-source solutions geared towards the data center.