InfoWorld’s 2008 Technology of the Year Awards

IDG’s InfoWorld, the leading integrated media brand for IT Decision Makers, today announced the recipients of its 2008 Technology of the Year honors, recognizing 45 products across 9 general categories. Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, the annual awards identify the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape. Full results appear on InfoWorld.com.

InfoWorld’s 2008 Technology of the Year Awards winners include:

APPLICATIONS & MIDDLEWARE
LOMBARDI (Best Business Process Management)
ORACLE (Best Enterprise Service Bus)
SEEMORE (Best Database Middleware)
EXPRESSO (Best Spreadsheet Collaboration)
JIVE SOFTWARE (Best Community Platform)

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
CURL (Best Rich Internet Applications Platform)
JACKBE (Best Enterprise Mashups Platform)
CODEGEAR (Best Java IDE)
FAIR ISAAC (Best Business Rule Management System)
BMC (Best Application Debugger)

DATA MANAGEMENT
ORACLE (Best Enterprise Content Management)
TRIDION (Best Web Content Management)
VIVISIMO (Best Enterprise Search)
NEXTPAGE (Best Document Retention System)

HARDWARE
DELL (Best Blade Server System)
HP (Best Blade System for Small Sites)
SUN (Best Storage Server)
STRATUS (Best Fault-Tolerant Server)
APC (Best Row Cooling Solution)
RARITAN (Best KVM)
APPLE (Best Notebook Computer)
NOKIA (Best Mobile Handset for the Enterprise)
HTC (Best Notebook Substitute)

NETWORKING
CISCO SYSTEMS (Best Aggregation Router)
PROCURVE/HP (Best Workgroup Switch)
JUNIPER NETWORKS (Best Web Application Accelerator)
RIVERBED TECHNOLOGY (Best WAN Accelerator)
SHUNRA (Best Network Emulation Tool)
DIVITAS (Mobile Convergence Innovator)
ASTERISK (Best IP PBX)
POLYCOM (Best IP Phone, Best IP Conference Phone)

PLATFORMS
APPLE (Best Operating System)
SUN (Most Innovative Server OS)
SYMANTEC (Best Application Virtualization)
VMWARE (Best Desktop Virtualization)
PARALLELS (Best Desktop Virtualization for Mac)

SECURITY
VONTU (Best Data Leak Prevention)
MU SECURITY (Best Fuzzer)
CORE SECURITY (Best Penetration Tester)
SYMANTEC (Best Mail Security)
BEYONDTRUST (Best Windows Client Security)

STORAGE
SUN (Best File System)
COMPELLENT (Best SAN)
EQUALLOGIC (Best iSCSI SAN)
ADAPTEC (Best Entry-Level SAN)
NETWORK APPLIANCE (Best Unified Storage System)
BREECE HILL (Best Backup for SMBs)
APRICORN (Best Portable Drive with Encryption)

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WiMax Endorsed by UN Agency

In a general meeting of the International Telecommunication Union held on the 19th October, the United Nations Telecommunications agency reached an agreement to approve WiMax as a global third-generation communication standard.

After several obligation, negotiation, and deliberation by several countries that wanted their application included, the UN agency finally endorsed the WiMax to be among the IMT-2000 standard for advanced mobile technologies.

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) radiocommunication assembly in Geneva has included WiMAX-derived technology in the framework of its set of standards.

The ITU said this agreement paved the way for the deployment of a range of voice, data and multimedia services to both stationary and mobile devices.

Senator Coonan said the decision effectively endorsed WiMAX wireless broadband as a world-class high speed broadband service.

Dialog Broadband Networks (DBN) this week became the first in Sri Lanka to introduce Broadband Internet, powered by WiMAX technology.

WiMax is an acronym for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access and it has the ability of delivering wireless broadband connections at speeds of 70MB a second over an area of 65KM, compared the current fixed-line broadband connections that have speeds of about 2MB per second.

This decision has opened door to many opportunities. In one sense, it means rural areas denied of fixed-line broadband connections due to its high cost will be benefiting from the high-speed internet access for mobile telecommunicating can now choose to use their franchise to provide WiMax services to customers in place of slower technologies.

Definitely, the endorsement of WiMax by UN will open way for many International Telecommunication Union member countries to devote resources in improving on services in that respect

 

Dialog first in Sri Lanka to introduce Broadband Internet

Dialog Broadband Networks (DBN) this week became the first in Sri Lanka to introduce Broadband Internet, powered by WiMAX technology.

Kavan Ratnayaka, Chief Executive Officer, Dialog Broadband Networks, speaking at the launch, said, “Internet is quickly becoming an integral part in many aspects of our lives, and with very high speed access Dialog Broadband will change the way we experience the Internet.

True broadband opens up unlimited possibilities for both organizations and individuals and our announcement today unleashes the full power of the web for our customers.”

This new service includes pre-packaged high-speed, Internet solutions, together with unlimited Internet usage for a fixed monthly subscription.