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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, network, Junos Space, software, Cisco Systems Inc., partnership, Juniper Networks Inc., OEM, Server
IDC bullish on utility computing spending
News As technology suppliers ease systems management, spending for products that deal in utility computing will surge in coming years, analyst firm IDC is predicting
Cisco partners with Chinese appliance maker
News The networking giant has made a pact with one of China's largest appliance maker Haier to develop home networking gear.
Tags: Networking
Cisco acquires video management start-up
News Cisco Systems is expanding its video expertise with plans to buy Denmark-based DiviTech, which provides content-provisioning software.
Tags: Acquisitions, Video, IP Television, Cisco Systems Inc., On-demand, software, video service, networking gear, financial, network
Report: Cisco, EMC to form services joint venture
News The Wall Street Journal said Thursday that the tech giants are in talks to create a new services company that would push their products in the data center.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data Management, Cisco Systems Inc., EMC Corp., Storage, VMware Inc., Server, network, Wall Street Journal, data center
How Intel's supercomputer almost used HP chips
News In the 1990s, Intel seriously considered building the world's fastest supercomputer with a rival's processors, but the Pentium Pro arrived in time after all.
Tags: Personal Computers, Notebooks and tablets, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Virtualization, Virtual Machine, Chip, Server, processor, supercomputer
Cisco: Smart grid will eclipse size of Internet
News Cisco, whose hardware is at the core of the Internet, is readying communications gear for utilities, businesses, and consumers to modernize the electricity grid.
Tags: Green IT, Security, Utility, Cisco Systems Inc., IP, Grid, electricity grid, network, Internet, industry
Networks vs. servers: The truce has ended
Techguide Recent activity by HP and Cisco suggests the truce between networking vendors and server vendors, has ended. See why, and how it could benefit IT.
Tags: Servers, Virtualization, Data Management, Data centers, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., HP ProCurve, Cisco Systems Inc., Jason Hiner, Server
Nortel buys Tasman to boost VoIP line
News The company, which sells networking products designed for smaller firms or branch offices, will be acquired for nearly US$100 million.
Tags: Networking technology, Acquisitions
Sales on upswing for faster wireless gear
News Gear based on the 802.11g specification is poised to outsell equipment using the 802.11b Wi-Fi standard, as prices fall and consumers hook up wireless LANs at home.
Nortel to quadruple network speeds
News Nortel Networks is set to announce optical networking gear that will increase Internet backbone speeds fourfold over existing technology.
Tags: Business broadband, Optical networking
Dell speeds computing clusters
News Dell has signed a deal with InfiniBand networking specialist to update its technical computing clusters with the high-speed communications technology.
3Com's Benhamou: Devices' focus will narrow
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Cisco to buy FineGround
News The networking giant acquires a company specializing in network optimization.
Tags: Networking, Business broadband
Open-source group plugs three holes
News An open-source group that maintains software for securing communications released a patch on Tuesday to fix several vulnerabilities that were found during a security test by the U.K. government.
