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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
Juniper eyes midmarket, aims for Cisco
News update With new partner and product launches, Juniper Networks sets eyes on new markets, particularly those dominated by market leader Cisco Systems.
Tags: Routing/switching, Ethernet, Junos Space, software, network, partnership, Cisco Systems Inc., Juniper Networks Inc., OEM, Server
Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent to manage S'pore NBN
News update Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent will run Singapore national broadband network's "active infrastructure" by its operating company, Nucleus Connect.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Optical networking, Alcatel, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Fiber, BSS, Information And Communication Technology, Singapore, Broadband, Lucent Technologies Inc.
Cisco, EMC, and VMware make alliance official
News The three companies are forming a joint venture that will provide unified data center products to big corporate customers.
Tags: Data centers, Data Management, networking equipment, Virtualization, partnership, Cisco Systems Inc., EMC Corp., Storage, VMware Inc., Wall Street Journal
Will there be too many chefs cooking India's UID broth?
Blogs Today's newspapers carry a photograph of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz offering a bouquet of flowers to India's Prime Minister M...
Cisco to buy mobile specialist Starent for US$2.9B
News Acquisition is designed to help Cisco keep a grip on the rapid growth of the mobile Internet due to the rising number of smartphones and other devices.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms/communications, Starent Networks Corp., network, mobile, 2.5G, Cisco Systems Inc., Video, EVDO, 3G
Calix raises US$100M in funding
News Founder and CEO Carl Russo sold his last company to Cisco for US$7 billion during the boom. Can he come up with another hit?
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Broadband, Latin America, networking equipment company, network, broadband service, acquisition, broadband network
Superfast Ethernet project aims for 100Gbps
News U.S. government-funded project at Berkeley Labs plan to develop a superfast network capable of sharing large amounts of research data.
Tags: Web 2.0, Mobile platforms/communications, Department Of Energy, Juniper Networks Inc., U.S. Department of Energy, supercomputer, financial, network, scientist, Ethernet
Gunning for an elephant in Silicon Valley
News Tiny Arista, started by a Sun co-founder, is challenging Cisco with superfast networking gear.
Tags: Data Management, Database management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Equinix, software, network, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Cisco Systems Inc.
HP throws Cisco ProCurve ball
News HP is banking on its server experience to push "integrated" ProCurve networking line over Cisco's "unified computing" tag, says executive.
Tags: Routing/switching, Blade servers, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP ProCurve, Cisco Systems Inc., Singapore, Small And Medium Business, Server, blade server
IT essential for businesses' green success
Insight perspective IT is becoming ever more closely linked with organizations' environmental impact. An analyst offers energy-saving tips for IT managers.
Tags: Green IT, IT Governance, Accommodation, Storage, Hardware, IT administration, data center, program director, user behavior, IT Governance
Energy-aware Internet routing coming soon
News Researchers say they have developed routing algorithm that can help big Internet companies reduce their energy bills by millions of dollars.
Tags: Green IT, Energy, Cisco Systems Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Energy Usage, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, networking company, researcher, Internet
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
Cisco nabs data center software startup
News Cisco Systems plans to buy Tidal Software for US$150 million in cash as it bulks up its offering for corporate data centers.
Tags: Acquisitions, Data centers, Data Management, Tidal Software, Cisco Systems Inc., IT Manager, computer server, Citigroup Inc., Server, software
IBM challenges partner Cisco
News IBM is partnering with a smaller Cisco rival to take on the networking giant in its core market.
Tags: Ethernet, Components, Routing/switching, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Sales, network, data center
