NetScreen Technologies and WebTrends Corporation announced a joint marketing partnership to provide solutions for firewall and VPN management. The alliance combines NetScreen’s integrated firewall, VPN and traffic shaping appliance with WebTrends’ reporting and analysis solutions to deliver real-time reporting capabilities of network security log files. The companies will be promoting the joint solution to each of their customer bases, beginning with the bundling of trial evaluations of WebTrends for Firewalls and VPNS v1.2 with NetScreen’s version 1.6 of its NetScreen-10 and NetScreen-100 security appliances.

Thanks to reader Jack Dausman for sending in this review of R5 from InfoWorld. According to the review, R5 has built in support that lets administrators register Domino as an Internet Server API service.

Lotus Development Corp. announced that Interliant, a Lotus ‘Net Service Provider, Alliance Partner and a Lotus Premium Business Partner, will deliver hosted, turnkey and customizable distributed learning solutions based on the Lotus LearningSpace Anytime platform. LearningSpace Campus is a learning management system designed for automating the registration, administration, reporting and/or hosting of online courses.

Windows Magazine has this article on knowledege management. According to the article, knowledge management software actually has a purpose: to electronically gather, store and archive expertise acquired throughout an organization’s existence, then use it to solve new and emerging problems.

Here’s an article about Leon Navickas, former general manager of research and development at Lotus. The article describes how he left Lotus to form Centra Software Inc.

PC Week has this article Planet Tivoli, Tivoli Systems’ new initiative which is intended to show IT managers how to change the way they manage technology resources to align them more closely with business goals.

Thanks to reader Ozero Lee for sending in this article on Lotus, Microsoft, and knowledge management.

VSI (V-Systems Inc.) is expanding its emphasis on enterprise administration and integration tools with the rollout of its Lotus Notes fax solution, VSI-FAX for Notes 3.0. VSI-FAX for Notes 3.0 features enhanced administration through dynamic load balancing, doc link reporting, and Notes-based statistics and alarms.

ZDNet Australia has this article on IBM’s CEO Lou Gerstner. The artcle talks about the allegations surrounding Jeff Papows, president of IBM’s Lotus Development division.

TechWeb reports that IBM will undertake an extensive streamlining of its entire channel structure with plans to unveil an initiative next week that will affect all 45,000 of its resellers and partners.