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• 10 years later, Alcatel-Lucent revisits Cisco and Juniper in the core

  By Jim Duffy | 23 May, 2012 03:33

  If at first you don’t succeed…

• CIO challenge with BYOD: Don't fall down the rabbit hole

  By Tom Kaneshige | 18 May, 2012 07:56

  When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she emerged into a Wonderland of oddities: trapped in a shrinking body with talking animals, mad tea parties, and a Queen of Hearts who shouts, "Off with her head."

• HP: SDNs are key to Cloud deployment

  By Jim Duffy | 10 May, 2012 05:42

  LAS VEGAS: Software-defined networks (SDN) have the capability to provision applications in minutes instead of months, and speed deployment into the cloud, according to the head of HP Networking.

• Alcatel-Lucent brings 40G to the core

  By Jim Duffy | 07 May, 2012 20:33

  Alcatel-Lucent this week at Interop will flesh out its data center fabric vision with 40G Ethernet and higher-density 10G Ethernet capabilities on its core switches, as well as enhanced software for its top-of-rack and core switches.

• Juniper joins Cisco, Enterasys in BYOD management fray

  By Jim Duffy | 04 May, 2012 01:28

  Juniper this week unveiled new and enhanced products designed to secure mobile device access to enterprise networks.

• Arista teams with VMware, Big Switch, Nebula for SDNs

  By Jim Duffy | 03 May, 2012 05:32

  Data center switch vendor Arista Networks next week will demonstrate how to build a software-defined cloud network using its switches, and controllers from partners VMware, Big Switch and Nebula.

• Mobility, cloud computing, security issues to dominate Interop

  By Brandon Butler | 23 April, 2012 20:29

  One of the premier technology shows of the year once again hits Las Vegas from May 6-10 and many of the themes IT leaders grapple with on a daily basis will be the hot topics at this year's forums and panel discussions. The show focuses on nine subject areas this year including: cloud computing, networking, wireless and mobility, virtualization, data center, storage, collaboration, information security and risk management, and IT management. Mobility is a dominant discussion point at this year's show though with 14 sessions on the topic.

• The government wants to know what it doesn't know

  By Mark Gibbs | 23 April, 2012 14:36

  "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

• Are IBM, Cisco and Oracle IT platforms really comparable?

  By Jim Duffy | 13 April, 2012 22:39

  IBM's new PureSystems integrated data center offering is drawing comparisons to Cisco's UCS and other convergence platforms from leading IT vendors.

• Cisco, Juniper among new software-defined networking research center's founders

  By Bob Brown | 11 April, 2012 03:24

  Cisco, Juniper, HP and nine other technology companies have joined forces with two leading universities to form a research center focused on software-defined networking (SDN).

• Cisco adds IP multiplexing to mobile satellite package

  By Ellen Messmer | 10 April, 2012 03:42

  Using VoIP via satellite links can have bandwidth issues, but Cisco today said it's introducing an IP multiplexing technology for its Cisco Mobile Ready Net package that dramatically improves the number of IP-based calls on a satellite link.

• Cisco, EMC, VMware unite behind big data, cloud training initiative

  By Ann Bednarz | 04 April, 2012 02:43

  As the IT silos come down, tech pros need to beef up their skills to stay relevant and maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, virtualization, unified networking and big data, according to Cisco and EMC, which have teamed to offer training targeted at tech's hottest data center disciplines.

• Ex-Vertica CEO Lynch pledges to build 'high-speed railway for Big Data'

  By Bob Brown | 28 March, 2012 04:36

  Chris Lynch wants to be Big Data's Big Daddy, with plans to back 20 young companies on the East Coast that deal with data sets characterized by "volume, velocity and variety."

• Cisco's big comeback

  By Ryan Francis | 22 March, 2012 01:24

  Just a year ago, Cisco's stock was taking a beating after the sales failed to meet Wall Street expectations.The company wasn't exactly reeling, but CEO John Chambers knew something had to be done to right the ship.  

• AARNet video exchange kick starts academic research projects

  By Hamish Barwick | 21 March, 2012 14:01

  Swinburne, Monash and Victoria Universities are amongst the first academic centres in Australia making use of a new video exchange service provided by Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) and Cisco which promises speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second. The video exchange has been in trial by the three universities since October ahead of its official launch this Monday.