Australia and New Zealand pet products company, Masterpet, has reduced nightly data replication exchanges between Wellington and Sydney from 40 minutes down to 22 since the introduction of data acceleration software.
Intrusion-prevention system (IPS) vendors have not found it easy to recast their appliances for use in the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/122209-outlook-virtualization-security.html">virtual-machine (VM) environment.</a> But now McAfee and Sourcefire claim to have overcome some hurdles, at least with VMware's VM.
The local software market will increase at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 8.2%, predicts IDC. The market is expected to reach a value of $940.6 million in 2011, compared with $635.4 in 2006, according to a recent IDC report.