Enterprise Networking
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HP-3Com merger heats up Cisco competition
News update Hewlett-Packard's 3Com acquisition will give serious boost to its datacenter credentials and challenge networking rival Cisco Systems, notes analyst.
Tags: Data centers, Data Management, Networking technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP ProCurve, enterprise networking, Ovum, Retek Inc., network, Cisco Systems Inc.
Four things to watch for in HP-3Com merger
Insight commentary With every merger comes some customer trepidation about changes that could be made. One CIO lists four items he'll watch to decide if Procurve continues to be a viable solution.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Acquisitions, Mergers, Lifetime Warranty, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP ProCurve, networking equipment, software, network, Business Strategies & Functions
Chinese firms continue network equipment spend
News Boosted by finance and public sector spending, China's enterprise networking equipment market will grow to US$4.3 billion in 2012, predicts Springboard Research.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Mobile/Wireless, Network security, IT Budget, e-governance, Asia-Pacific, network equipment, public sector, network, China
Brunei govt to invest more in IT
News The government wants to bring the nation's level of IT development up to par with the rest of the region, says IDC.
Tags: IT budgeting
Juniper: Enterprise, here we come
News Juniper's long-anticipated foray into the enterprise routing market means that incumbent Cisco now has a keen challenger.
Tags: Routing/switching
3Com weaves around Cisco into China
News 3Com has found its way around Cisco Systems and into China.
3Com and Huawei start China venture
News 3Com and Huawei Technologies said Monday that they've begun operating a joint venture, selling networking equipment to businesses in the lucrative China market.
3Com M'sia reorganizes with new focus on SMEs
News Following its worldwide reorganization, 3Com Malaysia has streamlined its operations and resume focus to move aggressively to capture the SME marketplace.
IT may benefit from warming China, India ties
News Warming India-China ties could find one of their most fruitful outlets in growing co-operation in the information technology (IT) sector, analysts said.
Oracle loses top exec to AlphaBlox
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It ain't broke, but fix it
News Cabling infrastructures can last up to 10 or 20 years, but companies should not take that to mean they can spend less on building and maintaining one, says a senior official from Systimax Solutions.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Ethernet
Cisco at a crossroads?
Insight You have to admire Cisco Systems. The company dominates enterprise networking to such an extent that it's even hard to remember who's No. 2.
Tags: Networking
Ten ways to secure Web services
Architect comment Server-to-server access is the heart of XML-based Web Services. But such seamless communication will require new security practices.
Tags: Security Management, XML, Software integration, Web services
Siemens to sell 51 percent of enterprise comms business
News The company will sell a majority share of its enterprise communications business to private equity firm Gores Group, with whom it plans to start a new joint venture.
Tags: Investments, Networking, Network standards/protocols, Next-generation technology/networks, Networking technology, Business broadband, Security, Siemens AG, software, analytics
Lucent shrinks in Cisco's networking shadow
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