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Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies. Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors.  August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Hospital undergoes wireless surgery For years, wireless technologies have only shown up in many U.S. hospitals in the form of rolling computers with Wi-Fi network access, but as evidenced at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, times are changing. August 13, 2:37 p.m. PDT Novell buys endpoint security firm Senforce Novell announced on Monday that it has acquired Senforce Technologies, a provider of endpoint and network security tools, for an undisclosed sum. August 13, 9:40 a.m. PDT Google buys into security, acquires GreenBorder Google has jumped into the anti-malware market, snatching up browser-based security software maker GreenBorder Technologies for an undisclosed amount of money. May 29, 9:32 a.m. PDT Licensing deal with Marvell a first for Sun's new unit Sun is licensing its multithreaded 10GB Ethernet networking technology to Marvell Technology Group in Sun's first deal since the creation of a separate Microelectronics group within the company one week ago. April 3, 2:32 p.m. PDT Dell PowerConnect 6248 a perfectly priced performer Switches are the umpires of the IT field: They’re either invisible, or they’re in trouble. Nothing less than 100 percent reliability is acceptable. February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST As-needed networking rollouts pay off Networking buzzwords have had little impact on the core of most infrastructures in the past few years. Yet Gigabit, VoIP, and IPSes continue to receive attention, with many enterprises planning 2007 deployments. Unless absolutely necessary, however, these line items will prove to be bloated investments. January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Networking: Convergence is at hand In networking, the big news of 2006 was the emergence of 10-Gigabit Ethernet as a mature, enterprise-ready technology. The past year also witnessed important advances in security and monitoring on the enterprise LAN, thanks to ever tightening integration and partnerships. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Networking After most of the vendors declined our invitation to a WAN shootout last year, we settled for a series of standalone reviews of WAN accelerators this year. As usual, Riverbed’s Steelhead shined -- so did products from Silver Peak, Blue Coat, and Cisco Systems, though they still swam in Steelhead’s wake. Perhaps competition will be stiff enough for a comparative test in 2007. Stay tuned. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco opens R&D center in west of Ireland Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. November 22, 8:21 a.m. PST Redefining innovation Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, according to Jim Andrew, senior partner at big-time consultancy BCG. In fact, at most companies, coming up with great concepts for a product, service, or process isn’t even an issue. But turning those ideas into money … ah, there’s the rub. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco banking on collaboration tools Triple plays are rare in baseball. But Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers plans to do one better Wednesday by promising to pull off a "quadruple play" in the networking business: incorporating data, voice, video, and mobile capabilities across its product lines. September 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT 10 Gig is enterprise-ready, but Cisco doesn't play well with others Click on over to InfoWorld's 10-Gig switch-off special report, and you can read about our latest adventures testing 10-gig switching solutions at the Advanced Network Computing Lab, now nestled comfortably in its new digs at the University of Hawaii. July 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco hedges its networking edge Cisco’s engineers deserve a heap of credit for helping Senior Contributing Editors Brian Chee and Oliver Rist develop the test plan for this week’s 10-Gig switch-off. Eager to show what its big iron could do, the Cisco team improved the agenda with optional tests and an eye for detail. July 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT The InfoWorld Test Center's 10-Gig switch-off Two years ago, 10 Gig meant screaming along the bleeding edge with your hair on fire. The speed was there, but achieving it was a black art requiring network performance knowledge, driver tweaking, and OS tuning. July 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT The 10-Gig challenge: How we tested In our continuing effort to create more realistic enterprise simulation, we agreed to use Spirent’s new TestCenter 5000A and combined it with its Avalanche, ThreatEx, and Abacus gear in order to fully load our competitors with the triple play of network traffic: voice, video, and data. July 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Podcasts: Microsoft and Sun groom their OSes for 10 Gig With 10 Gig making inroads into mainstream datacenters, we had to check and see how server OS vendors were responding to this fast new media. In the past, even when straight Gigabit Ethernet adapters were first introduced, operating systems simply weren’t prepared to handle the increased bandwidth. July 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Spirent melds voice, video, and data into networking test gear We’ve been doing network-switch testing for more than 10 years now, and the concept of a triple-play test (voice, video, and data) has been a part of our plans from the early days of ATM OC-12 through Gigabit Ethernet’s birth and now to 10 Gig. July 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco appoints ex-MCI chief Capellas to board Cisco Systems Inc. has appointed Michael Capellas, former president and chief executive officer of MCI Inc., to its board of directors, the computer networking company said Tuesday. February 1, 4:42 a.m. PST Wall Street Beat: Earnings bring mixed results Earnings season blew in with a vengeance this week, with disappointing fourth-quarter results from industry bellwethers Intel Corp. and IBM Corp. offset by better-than-expected reports from other vendors. January 19, 4:20 p.m. PST Foundry Networks introduces ServerIronGT 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches With a nod toward increasing network infrastructure flexibility, Foundry Networks on Thursday introduced two 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches aimed at speeding up application traffic, along with a new set of SSL acceleration modules for secure transactions. January 12, 5:00 p.m. PST Traffic optimization takes center stage in networking show In many ways, 2005 was a "so what?" year for networking. After all, anyone who expected major breakthroughs on a number of key issues ended the year sorely disappointed. There's been little progress on IPv6 adoption, the United States is still claiming it owns the Internet, wireless networking made little progress on fronts political or technical, and IP telephony remains hot -- though whether VoIP's future lies in hardware, software, or both is still a topic that will drive a conference panel, or three, for years. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet to the closet Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop isn't for every infrastructure, but it's become a popular push both by switching vendors and network admins. And no wonder: Servers are generally using bonded gigabit links to the network, the cost of Gigabit Ethernet closet switches are dropping, and many corporate desktops are now shipping with Gigabit Ethernet NICs by default. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Lucent to take $300 million charge on lawsuit ruling Lucent Technologies Inc. will take a US$300 million charge on its first quarter of 2006 financial statement after a judge ruled against the company in a bankruptcy case on Wednesday. December 22, 8:13 a.m. PST Juniper sues over message-board posts Juniper Networks Inc. is suing 10 unnamed defendants over comments posted to a networking news message board that Juniper charges are libelous. December 22, 4:27 a.m. PST Tech reviews for the holidays Even IT takes a holiday now and then. Same goes for the InfoWorld staff, which chills out by taking a one-week break following the publication of this, our 51st and final issue of the year. December 19, 3:00 a.m. PST 3Com's European HQ damaged in oil depot blast 3Com said Sunday that an explosion at an oil depot in Hemel Hempstead, England damaged the headquarters of its regional operations for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The company said there were no injuries among its employees as a result of the blast. December 12, 4:23 a.m. PST Update: Cisco pushes for bigger network role Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday staked a wider claim on enterprise IT as it kicked off its Worldwide Analyst Conference, introducing an ambitious plan for services-oriented infrastructure and a new application acceleration initiative. December 6, 2:34 p.m. PST Alcatel pushes 10 Gigabit Ethernet for the enterprise Alcatel on Monday unveiled the OmniSwitch 9000 core switch family, planting its company flag in the world of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches. November 29, 3:49 p.m. PST Product Previews Alcatel flips the switch on 10Gb Ethernet Alcatel next month will throw its hat into the 10-Gigabit Ethernet ring with the debut of its OmniSwitch 9000 line. The enterprise datacenter-targeted 10Gb Ethernet switches address the need for better QoS, scalability, security, and VoIP support. The OmniSwitch 9700 has a 10-slot chassis, and the 9800 has an 18-slot chassis; components on both are hot swappable and fully redundant. The switches have built-in support for IPv4, IPv6, multicasting, and server clustering and high-availability features. OmniSwitch 9000 chassis prices range from $3,995 to $23,995; a 24-port 10/100/1000Gb Ethernet blade is $7,995; a two-port 10Gb Ethernet blade (without optics) is $10,495. OmniSwitch 9000 Alcatel November 21, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM taps Neterion for Ethernet adapters IBM will use Neterion's second-generation Xframe II Ethernet adapters in xSeries servers, making IBM the first major vendor to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology in its Intel processor-based servers, Neterion said Monday. November 1, 8:22 a.m. PST Decoding analyst-speak How many industry analysts does it take to change a light bulb? We’ll get back to you on that. But first, wouldn’t you like to purchase our Illumination Industry Survey, which predicts that yearly spending on light bulbs will reach $3.7 trillion by 2010? August 22, 4:00 a.m. PDT > Hardware > Network hardware > Switches > Hardware > Network hardware > Networking > Network hardware > Switches > Networking > Network hardware > Networking > Switches > Networking |
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