Thursday, July 12, 2007 
Three IT giants--<A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2156384,00.asp">Cisco Systems, EMC, and Microsoft--have formed an alliance</A> to create a new common IT architecture for sharing and protecting sensitive government or business information, representatives from all three companies told eWEEK July 9.
The alliance was born of a shared project with the Department of Defense, during which the companies designed and engineered the so-called SISA (Secure Information Sharing Architecture), a new security-enhanced, end-to-end information-sharing design framework. The nature of the DOD project was not revealed.
