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Ethernet standards for hyper-scale cloud networking Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:45:06 GMT Always just over the horizonWhat if the largest Ethernet networks we see today are just precursors, initial steps on the path to what's been called hyper-scale cloud networking?…
Cisco stabilizes switching and routing in Q2 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:56:41 GMT Raises dividend, remains cautiousNetworking - and some would say data center bellwether - Cisco Systems turned in a better-than-expected fiscal Q2 ended in January, with revenues up 10.8 per cent to $11.53bn and net income up a very good 43.5 per cent to $2.18bn.… (image)
Inside the mind of EMC: Is storage just a launchpad? Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:31:12 GMT I wanna be a data centre contender ...Blocks and Files: It's a vision thing: EMC was a storage company and is an information company, but in the next decade it looks like it will be a data centre infrastructure company.…
Riverbed virtualizes Cascade network monitor appliance Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:07:19 GMT Spying on virtual iron with virtual ironRiverbed Technology upgraded a whole bunch of its appliances this week, including its Cascade Shark network-monitoring products and its Steelhead WAN optimizers.…
Juniper stalled by jittery service providers, product transitions Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:34:08 GMT Switch hittingJuniper Networks warned Wall Street earlier this month that the fourth quarter was going to be rough because key service provider customers are cutting back on spending at the same time that the company is putting the finishing touches on some new switches and routers.…
Mellanox shrugs off Intel's InfiniBand buy Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:37:10 GMT Turns in good Q4, will grow in 2012 despite price cutsHaving bought rival Voltaire, Mellanox Technologies has pretty much ruled the InfiniBand adapter and switching roost for the past several years. But this week Intel shelled out $125m to acquire the InfiniBand chip, adapter, and switch businesses from QLogic, and the big question now is: what does this mean for Mellanox?… (image)
IBM and NEC tag team on OpenFlow networking Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:20:57 GMT Control freaking network configs from serversIBM and NEC are joining forces to promote switches and controllers based on the OpenFlow protocol to their joint customers.…
Mellanox chops 10-gig Ethernet switch, adapter prices Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:28:36 GMT Making it up in volumeUpdated Mellanox Technologies is not happy about the 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch and adapter ramp, and it is doing something about it: slashing its own prices.…
Intel upsets apple cart, snaps up QLogic's InfiniBand biz Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:47:21 GMT Time for AMD to eat MellanoxThe high-performance networking market just got a whole lot more interesting, with Intel shelling out $125m to acquire the InfiniBand switch and adapter product lines from upstart QLogic.…
Data centers to cut LAN cord? Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:38:02 GMT 60GHz wireless links ease east-west traffic jamsPeople are using cell phones and killing their landlines. We have wireless networks in the home to connect our myriad devices. And maybe wireless is coming to the data center, as well.…
Juniper stalled by Q4 slowdown Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:14:34 GMT Anything Cisco can do. . . .Juniper Networks is having its Cisco moment, but it doesn't look like it is much to worry about.… (image)
Brocade sale rumours bursting out Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:52:51 GMT All over the streetBased on a Reuters report, rumours of Brocade shopping itself to private equity buyers are pouring onto the net.…
Network kit sales outpace servers in Q3, overall picture looks decent Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:06:11 GMT Work in a data centre? No sign of pink slip doom yetThe data center networking market is keeping pace with sales of servers, according to the latest research from IDC. The company's box counters say that in the third quarter ended in September that revenues for switching and routing gear for the glass house rose by 6.1 per cent to $5.9bn.…
Mighty WAN pumper offered in the struggle to cope with Big Data Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:19:03 GMT A pipe so fat it can satiate even the biggest boxesCompanies may be excited about doing Google-style analytics on all aspects of their business with Hadoop and other "big data" tools, but big businesses are bracing for bigger phone bills as big data is starting to generate big traffic across the distributed operations of enterprises.…
UK.gov imposes broadband deadline for councils Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:29:10 GMT Mmmm. Get your chops around juicy pork barrel goodnessIt's been a week since the Countryside Alliance made a noise about the lack of activity around the rollout of a broadband network in rural areas. That came after a Freedom of Information request from the pro-fox hunting group revealed that councils were bumbling along with the fibre upgrade process.…
Cisco salivates over exploding data center traffic Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:02:24 GMT Transmuting gigabits per second into dollars per quarterSwitch and router powerhouse Cisco Systems has released its data center traffic forecast – the "Global Cloud Index" – which shows data center traffic growing in leaps and bounds, and set to explode in coming years.…
Huge US command-&-control airship gets quantum optics Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:27:05 GMT Fibre-fat pipage for 'Blue Devil' aerial computer warshipPentagon boffinry powerhouse DARPA has announced plans to fit a giant new US military command and control airship - known as "Blue Devil Block 2" - with through-the-air optical links offering bandwidth normally achievable only by fibre cables. This is to be done using newly-applied technology developed in the 1990s for use in astronomical telescopes.…
SQUID calls 'virtual photons' into real existence Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:39:09 GMT Hyperdrive mirror plucks light from the quantum vacuumWhile “vacuum fluctuations” – one of the stranger predictions of quantum physics – have been observed for some time, a team comprising scientists from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of University of New South Wales have gone one step further, creating their own photons out of empty space.…
Spyhunting US pols to crawl up Huawei and ZTE's ass Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:43:03 GMT Ex-FBI congressman burnishes microscopeUS lawmakers have launched an investigation into the threat of cyber espionage from Chinese telecoms firms operating in the US, singling out Huawei and ZTE.…
Free the people from office chains and commuting pain! Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:51:10 GMT Give the Transport minister an easy life. And buy our stuff!Norman Baker, the UK's Transport Minister, has outlined a consortium dedicated to getting more people working away from the office, for the good of the economy, and the planet.…
Basement-dwelling BOFH to be sent into Spaaaace Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:43:06 GMT And probably back again, in database admin compoA UK company has launched a competition to send one lucky database administrator into space.…
Adventures in Tech: Taking the plunge into IPv6 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:00:10 GMT Our intrepid reporter does it, but you'll still have toPart 1 The threat from the fast-dwindling supply of mainstream "IPv4" Internet addresses for new users is a bit like Y2K creeping up on us all over again. Almost no one can see beyond the cost of code review, systems change, hardware upgrades and general upheaval into the brave fairly-old world of IPv6 - but putting it off forever isn't really an option either. And like Y2K, if it's handled well, no one will ever notice or thank us "IT professionals" for it: we'll be accused of make-work, scare-mongering and overcharging. What's not to like?…
BT hires another battalion of troops to speed fibre rollout Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:57:08 GMT Ex-military types to blow two-thirds of Blighty 'by 2014'BT has brushed aside the possibility that it could be hampered by any number of problems that might delay its plan to push "superfast" broadband to two thirds of the UK come
HP has another crack at fondleslab market Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:29:13 GMT Meg strokes Windows 8, unsure about webOSHP will make another run at the fondleslab market.…
Survey: Future IT guys will 'crowd-source' to fix stuff Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:46:09 GMT 'So most of you don't think we need a firewall, eh?'Dell and Intel expect that crowd-sourcing will be a challenge that IT managers and chief information officers will have to meet in the next 10 to 15 years. Businesses will want to do it, and IT managers will have to work out how deliver it, they predict in a survey about IT in the workplace commissioned from research group TMS.…
Cisco, HP bury hatchet for server, switch hookup Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:21:52 GMT Nexus kit cosy up to bladesServer giant and networking player Hewlett-Packard and networking giant and server player Cisco seem to have buried the hatchet. Admittedly, it is a pretty small hatchet and they are still brandishing pikes pointed at each other's guts. But they are not fighting.…
Juniper profits get a haircut in Q3 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:11:58 GMT Hits sales targets, thanks to switchesProfits at Juniper Networks have had a haircut after costs for manufacturing, research, development, and sales all grew faster than revenues in its third quarter. But revenue is growing and hitting targets, which is a good sign for the networking business in general, and for Juniper in particular.…
Cisco girds Nexus switches for data center battle Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:44:29 GMT 10GE and 40GE artilleryNetworking giant Cisco Systems has been under attack for the past several years, and the company gearing up its high-end, converged Nexus switches to defend its data-center turf from encroachment by HP, Dell, Arista Networks, Juniper Networks, Brocade Communications, and others.…
Winning new UK pylon design may never be used Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:29:06 GMT Thanks anyway, have £5k for your troubleEco Strategy Boutique A Danish company has won a competition to design a new electricity pylon for the UK. The Department of Energy and Climate Change announced the winner, Bystrup, today.…
RIM: 'Faulty switch took out faulty-switch-proof network' Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:29:29 GMT Sleepy BlackBerry bosses to wait for postmortem ...Blackberry bosses held a short press conference at 10am EST (15.00 GMT) today to calm investors, answer media questions and shed (a little bit) more light on the faulty switch that caused the three-day service outages across the UK, Europe, Africa and Latin America.…
BT superfast home fibre plans fall behind schedule. Again Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:53:08 GMT Telco now upgrading six (not 12) exchanges by end of 2011BT won't hit its target of kitting out 12 exchanges with its new fibre network by the end of this year as originally hoped.…
Cisco CEO: The future of communications is video Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:14:48 GMT John Chambers gets into prediction industryOpenWorld Cisco CEO John Chambers predicts that video is the future of global communications – and, coincidentally, his company can sell you the hardware to deliver it.…
HP uncloaks 10GbE top-of-racker, IPv6 guidance Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:47:48 GMT A day of HP sanity: no Apotheker, Whitman, or clueless boardInterop 2011 HP is polishing up some new switches and gussying up some others, following up on a broad set of announcements that it made back in May. The company is also trotting out some services to help customers make the transition from IPv4 to IPv6.…
Cisco veep slags off HP's PC biz wobble Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:36:11 GMT Predicts doom for rival in not-so-secret documentCisco quietly sat on the sidelines during the summer as a series of gaffes by a hapless senior executive team forced down HP's share price by a fifth.…
Leatherman style multifunctional network device offered Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:29:08 GMT QLogic delves in trousers, whips out impressive toolQLogic has a new FlexSuite adapter that can function as either 10 gig Ethernet or 16 gig Fibre Channel.…
HP networking boss leaves after less than a year Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:54:11 GMT First Brick, now Bonnett ...HP UK and Ireland networking boss Barry Bonnett is leaving the role after less than a year in charge, The Register can reveal.…
IEEE task force massages 100GE for backplanes Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:44:35 GMT 25Gb/sec signaling for blade serversThe IEEE standards body has set up a task force of industry vendors to start work on the four-lane, 25Gb/sec signaling that will be required for future 100 Gigabit Ethernet.…
Does white space need to be Weightless? Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:30:07 GMT A new protocol for a new wavelengthNext week will see the formal launch of the Weightless radio protocol, designed for use in the soon-to-be-available white space frequencies. But can a protocol without weight really do it all?…
Mellanox goes to Wall Street for cash Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:26:44 GMT Chests filled for war and developmentUpdated InfiniBand and Ethernet networking chip and equipment maker Mellanox Technologies announced after the market closed in New York on Monday that it would be issuing up to 3 million shiny new shares to raise some cash for working capital and strategic investments.…
Is Cisco's 16-year CEO Chambers ready to go? Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:14:47 GMT Secret internal wars of succession said to be underwayRumours that Cisco CEO and chairman John Chambers may be considering his resignation have gathered pace. Chambers has spent 16 years at the head of the firm.…
Broadcom breaks piggy bank for $3.7bn NetLogic buy Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:54:50 GMT Get a grip on MIPS chipIt's crunch time in the networking and communications chip biz, with Broadcom whipping out $3.7bn to acquire chip maker NetLogic Microsystems to fill a hole in its line.…
Unisys gets 'stealthy' with secure virtual terminal Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:44:33 GMT Military-grade encryption on a USB stickRich people and public sector workers can now get the kind of network security that used to be reserved for military organizations.…
Cisco accused of tailoring tech to aid Chinese abuses Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:09:49 GMT Falun Gong content easy to spot, marketers boastA group accusing Cisco Systems of helping the Chinese government commit human rights abuses against Falun Gong members said it has presented new evidence that the networking giant customized its technology to spy on people tied to the outlawed religious organization.…
VCE goes for Zaphod Beeblebrox management style Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:01:02 GMT Cisco/EMC hoopy froods know where their towels areTwo heads are better than one: Cisco and EMC's VCE joint-venture is moving forward with a chairman and a president, but no CEO.…
Hedge fund agitator grapples for helm at Brocade Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:38:39 GMT Network galleon beats into 'IT market headwinds'Brocade has reported its quarterly results with a disappointing outlook and found itself the target of an activist hedge fund investor, Elliot Management, scenting under-valued assets it can profit from.…
Cisco lifts axe again, chops nearly one in five execs Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:01:35 GMT Under fire networking Goliath clarifies changesCisco has given marching orders to nearly one in five of its senior execs included in its massive cost-cutting drive and now plans to hand 1,200 contract workers their pink slips too.… (image)
Intel snaps up network chipper Fulcrum Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:05:10 GMT Low-power chores to which Xeons won't stoopAs good as Xeon chips might be for lots of things, Intel obviously believes that it needs some other silicon: the chip giant bought privately held networking ASIC maker Fulcrum Microsystems on Tuesday.…
Cisco doubles Catalyst Ethernet ports to 60 watts of juicy juice Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:51:49 GMT More power to ya'Networking giant Cisco Systems has cranked up the amount of juice its Catalyst 4500E switches can pump out over Ethernet to 60 watts – another step toward its goal of making its switches the throbbing heart of the modern office.…
Cisco may slash 10,000 jobs Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:36:48 GMT Company-wide axe massacre set for next monthCisco may be bigger and bolder in its cost-cutting plans than first anticipated: it has been revealed the firm is getting rid of close to 10,000 staff worldwide.…
Cisco needs to slash 5,000 jobs, says analyst Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:00:02 GMT Shake-up looms as global channel boss waves goodbyeCisco may fire up to 5,000 staff this August under a restructuring plan, according to analyst Brian Marshall at Gleacher and Co.… |
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