Cisco® today announced the integration of Cisco VFrame Data Center with VMware Virtual Infrastructure, a key solution for the Cisco vision of next generation data centers, called Data Center 3.0. The solutions and services that support Cisco Data Center 3.0 are designed to help customers better utilize their data center resources, deploy more robust business continuance, and enhance data security.

Florida State University (FSU) has selected a next-generation high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) from Dell to enable a wide range of academic research designed to benefit society. The cluster, unveiled today, is housed at FSU’s main data center in Tallahassee.

Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) announced the introduction of the Celcor® 600/2 substrate, a next-generation ceramic substrate for light-duty gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles. With its ultrathin walls, the new substrate enables reduced fuel consumption and increased engine power through low exhaust system back pressure.

Dune Networks, a leading provider of networking devices for Data Center, Enterprise, and Carrier Ethernet platforms and Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, a leading provider of innovative and technically advanced IC solutions for networking applications, announced their intent to have Dune's next-generation devices and Vitesse's recently introduced triple-speed Ethernet MACs interoperate using next generation XAUI interfaces.

Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced today that the IRT, the Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik in Munich, Germany, has installed the Tektronix PQA500, a next generation picture quality analysis tool, to speed up its HD quality evaluation process and to significantly expand its HD reference toolset.

Today at IBC2007, Microsoft Corp. announced broad industry support for the Microsoft® VC-1 Encoder software development kit (SDK), a commercial offering first announced at the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters conference in April.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Innovation Group (LSE: TIG) today launched a new Global Insurance Center of Excellence in Bangalore, India, to help companies innovate on next generation core systems, develop new business models, and tap emerging technologies to create competitive advantage and improve the customer experience.

Australian and French scientists have made another breakthrough in the technology that will drive next generation computers and teleportation.

As part of the company's ongoing commitment to greening its global operations, Sun Microsystems publicly unveiled three active, new datacenters in Santa Clara, California; Blackwater, U.K.; and Bangalore, India. Put into operation between January and June of this year, all three datacenters were built using breakthrough designs and next-generation energy efficient systems, power and cooling.

IN his keynote address at the recent LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Novell president and chief executive Ron Hovsepian said developers needed to focus their efforts on virtualisation and other technologies that would drive the next-generation data centre.

At CTIA Wireless 2007, Nortel will demonstrate high-speed 4G and next-generation technologies essential to delivering quality voice, video and TV services over true mobile broadband. The wireless industry's largest show will be held in Orlando, Florida March 27-29.