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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. Cisco to roll out branch office networking gear Enterprise branch offices increasingly need the same IT tools that the head office has, and Cisco Systems is set to unveil branch networking gear Wednesday to help fill that need. September 26, 5:47 a.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore.  August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT 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 Cisco muffles Linksys death knell The saga of Cisco Systems and its Linksys consumer and small-business division continued last week as Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers hinted at the companies' future branding strategy. July 30, 12:26 p.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Marc Willebeek-LeMair Dr. Marc Willebeek-LeMair, CTO of 3Com, is used to wrestling with weighty problems. After all, the man spent a decade at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center working on so-called intelligent infrastructure technologies and has done research on everything from distributed computing and high-speed networking technologies to network processors and management systems. So when Willebeek-LeMair talks about the problems facing the enterprise networking industry, people tend to listen. June 8, 3:00 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 Nortel plans major enterprise product launch Nortel will soon unveil significant additions to its enterprise arsenal, including its initial entré into the WAN acceleration market. May 14, 8:06 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 More IT war stories Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.” March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST 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 Women in technology: A call to action A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology. January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST Back to school: Getting girls into IT Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age. January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST Activism provides competitive advantage for IT Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers. January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST Gender crisis in IT You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look. January 29, 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 Cisco to buy IronPort for $830M Cisco Systems said on Thursday it is buying privately held IronPort Systems for $830 million in cash and stock. January 8, 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 Cisco buys e-mail security firm for $830m Cisco Systems Inc. said on Thursday that it was buying IronPort Systems Inc. of San Bruno, Calif. for $830 million in cash and stock. January 4, 5:15 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 Technology of the Gods January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman deity of beginnings and endings, who reportedly was able to look both forward and back. So for our Jan. 1 issue, we pay homage to the mythological immortal with our seventh annual Technology of the Year Awards, an analysis of where IT has been and where it’s going in 2007. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST ProCurve switches work well for smaller (but growing) businesses Every organization has key growth points: earning the first dollar, hiring the first employee, moving from an unmanaged network switch to a managed device. Business consultants offer help with the first two, and HP’s ProCurve Networking wants to help with the third, using its 1800-series managed switches. December 29, 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 Review of reviews It’s coming up on closing time for 2006. All around us, everyone is going into holiday mode. Not to be curmudgeonly contrarians, InfoWorld will be following suit, taking a one-week break before returning on Jan. 1 with our first print issue of the year. (It’s really only a semi-hiatus; InfoWorld.com will continue to perk over the holidays with a slightly reduced slate of stories.) December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Fujitsu Siemens offers SAN bundle for small businesses Following a similar move by Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu Siemens Computers plans to announce a packaged storage area network (SAN) product on Thursday aimed at small and medium-size businesses. December 11, 4:49 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 Ethernet knows where it's going: 100 Gigabits Ethernet will keep accelerating, speeding up to 100G bps (bits per second) in the next few years, the head of a standards study group said Wednesday. November 22, 3:17 p.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 Juniper releases Version 2 of NAC product With all the hype and anticipation that has surrounded the NAC (network access control) space in recent years, you can forgive IT administrators for assuming that full-featured NAC solutions were just around the corner. But progress on client screening and NAC has been agonizingly slow since the first NAC products hit the market in 2004. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Juniper unveils branch-office strategy Enterprises have done wonders in recent years consolidating their IT operations into efficient and tightly managed datacenters. That trend has been a godsend for system administrators and IT workers, who no longer have to spend long hours on the road, in transit to far-flung branch offices to reboot servers and take care of other mundane tasks. One population that hasn’t benefitted from centralized IT operations: the poor souls who have to work in those branch offices and live at the mercy of their WAN connection. And that’s no small population. By one estimate, as much as 80 percent of employees at many companies now work outside of headquarters. October 30, 3:00 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 More players announce NAC plans Microsoft and Cisco Systems played the role of proud parents on Sept. 6. But with so many questions about when NAC-NAP, as it’s been called, will be available, and how it will work with non-Windows clients and non-Cisco infrastructure, it’s been hard to figure out what the companies created. September 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT 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 Cisco beefing up WAFS Cisco Systems is stepping up to the plate in the highly competitive application acceleration game, banking on technology and a lot of end-to-end network expertise to set it apart from other players. September 5, 8:00 a.m. PDT Nortel sets up design center in India Nortel Networks is setting up a product design, development and testing center in Bangalore, India, in a move to take advantage of lower staffing costs in the country. August 23, 7:20 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 upgrades InfiniBand switches Cisco has revised its SFS 7000D InfiniBand switches, doubling their speed to 20Gbps and adding a management interface compatible with its IOS-based Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches. June 28, 6:57 a.m. PDT Samsung ready to take on Cisco Samsung Electronics has started shipping a router designed for corporate users, part of a planned assault on a market long dominated by Cisco Systems, executives said Wednesday. June 21, 6:11 a.m. PDT Siemens to sell enterprise business unit While the market digests the announcement about the new Nokia Siemens Networks joint venture, more news from Siemens, this time regarding its enterprise product unit, is imminent. June 20, 9:14 a.m. PDT Chambers to become Cisco chairman John Chambers, who has run Cisco Systems Inc. as president and chief executive officer (CEO) since 1995, will become chairman in November while remaining CEO, the dominant networking vendor announced Thursday. June 8, 11:38 a.m. PDT Slow progress for 802.11n standards The IEEE 802.11n standard has been three years in the making, and from the looks of it, it has at least another year to go. That’s a shame because it offers a lot of benefits, including higher throughput than the current Wi-Fi standard -- about 120Mbps in the real world -- and 50 percent longer range. Plus, because it uses multiple antennas that can stitch together a fractured signal, it eliminates a lot of spots where there might be drop-offs indoors. June 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25 The top technology slot in the enterprise has changed. Once, forward-looking CTOs and CIOs scanned the horizon for new technologies that would improve the lot of IT. Today, as many of this year’s top 25 CTOs can tell you, technology leaders must also focus on understanding the business goals of the enterprise -- and then craft technology strategies to meet those objectives. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM releases SOA switches, services XML security appliance provider DataPower got gobbled up by IBM last fall, but the role of DataPower’s technology in IBM’s SOA strategy wasn’t clear until last week, when IBM announced three new appliances that use it, and an array of Global Services offerings to match. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Nortel, Symantec team on app security Symantec plans to announce Monday a deal to put its intrusion prevention system (IPS) software on Nortel Network's application switching hardware. May 22, 8:50 a.m. PDT Wind River releases device management suite Wind River Systems is enhancing its embedded operating system with a suite of management products designed to allow companies to monitor software on remote devices, it announced at its user conference in Orlando this week. May 18, 9:23 a.m. PDT Tech startups to watch Startups are back! or at least, startup fever is back. Scan the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and you won’t find any hockey sticks -- the level of investment in enterprise-related technology startups has actually remained fairly flat, hovering between $1.5 and $2.3 billion per quarter from 2003 through 2005. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco, Fujitsu collaborate on data centers Going after European data centers with the promise of making life easier for IT managers, Cisco Systems linked up with Fujitsu Siemens Computers on Wednesday. May 10, 2:45 p.m. PDT Peer-to-peer device networking takes shape The concept of SEDs (service-enabled devices) started way back in the ‘80s with something called tuple spaces, and later took shape as Jini nder the guidance of Sun Microsystems. Jini came about when Bill Joy, Sun’s chief scientist, imagined a peer-to-peer world where every device could talk to every other device: “Hello, I’m a color printer. This is my feature set and here are my printer drivers. Would you like to access me?” May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Amid massive renovation, Nortel eyes spin offs Nortel Networks Corp. will closely examine all of its product categories and consider dropping out or seeking a partnership or joint venture anywhere it doesn't hold or forecast a 20 percent market share or better, President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Zafirovski said Thursday. April 7, 9:48 a.m. PDT Cyclades fleshes out IP KVM for full remote connectivity With the AlterPath OnSite, Cyclades offers a useful remote access option -- basically, secure remote KVM over IP. The concept isn’t a new one, but Cyclades has done its homework and fleshes out the OnSite 841’s feature set in a practical way, with support for variable bandwidth connections. April 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT In Brief: IBM readies SOA packages IBM at its PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas later this month plans to help integrators and ISVs build SOAs based on the company's WebSphere platform. March 1, 5:35 a.m. PST Cisco adds more carrier Ethernet products Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday expanded its carrier Ethernet offerings with a purpose-built switch and a multiservice provisioning platform, both designed to help carriers deploy new types of services to consumers and businesses. February 21, 12:00 p.m. PST Dell'Oro: Lower end switches drive Ethernet growth More than five years after Gigabit Ethernet hit the market and despite the technology coming standard on most new business PCs, an earlier class of switches that dominated the market in the late 1990s is still used in most LANs, according to the latest switch report by Dell'Oro Group. February 16, 2:14 p.m. PST Nortel spins off blade server switch business Networking equipment vendor Nortel Networks Monday said it is spinning off its blade server switch business into a new company called Blade Network Technologies. February 13, 2:40 p.m. PST HP to bolster ProCurve switch family HP ProCurve is expected to launch several new wiring closet, LAN aggregation, and core switch products this week targeted at organizations requiring combinations of Gigabit, Power over Ethernet, and switch-based traffic management and security features. February 13, 6:05 a.m. PST 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 Cisco set to deliver high-end storage switch Nearly three and a half years after announcing a high-end storage switch, Cisco says the market is finally ready for it. January 12, 4:15 p.m. PST Virtualized storage, real rewards As senior director of enterprise technology operations at Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a prison management firm that handles more than 60 facilities, Brad Wood faces several challenges. His group manages approximately 100TB of data -- including inmate medical records, operational records, e-mail, and so forth -- across four Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) storage arrays in two datacenters. Because of federal and state rules, much of the company’s data is mirrored three or four times to keep it accessible in case of failure. Adding to the complexity, Wood buys his hardware based on current price and performance, so he has a mix of suppliers. January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST IT will give up control of the network As we look at all the changes taking place on the Internet during the past several years, I think we can boil it down to two simple observations. First, the volume of traffic is increasing exponentially: E-mail, IM, and RSS all mean more connections. Second, each connection is moving a great deal more data, including multimedia, voice, and video. January 10, 3:00 a.m. PST Cisco cable deal passes legal milestone Network equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems has passed a critical milestone in its planned acquisition of cable TV technology company Scientific-Atlanta after the U.S. antitrust waiting period passed on Friday without regulators taking any action. January 4, 4:35 a.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 2006 Technology of the Year Awards: The winners' list See correction at end of article 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 Top technologies of the year Welcome to our first issue of the year. For those of you who took a break, re-entry into the heady universe of work may be a bit discombobulating. Fortunately, last Saturday, the world’s ever-considerate timekeepers saw fit to give us an extra sliver of time -- a leap second-- to prep for the new year. And now, with the pop of the cork (or was that the buzz of a pager?), we’re ready to herald 2006, a potential banner year for the enterprise. January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Product Previews Foundry drives VoIP with FastIron switch Foundry Networks gives enterprise VoIP another push with the unveiling of its FastIron Edge X-Series 424-PoE switch, which combines PoE (Power over Ethernet) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet to help streamline VoIP migration, as well as aid Wi-Fi deployments. The newest FastIron family member boasts 24 ports of 10/100/1000 PoE with four-port combo GbE; each PoE port is 802.3af compliant. The X-Series 424-PoE also supports several Layer 2 protocols, with the option to include more advanced Layer 3 routing protocols; QoS features include voice, data, and application traffic prioritization. The switch is available now, with pricing from $6,995 to $13,485 depending on model. FastIron Edge X-Series 424-PoE Switch Foundry Networks 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 Managing out-of-band management Service processors are the key to successful high-density rack applications, and they’re just as handy for managing systems in the branch office, where intensive monitoring of each box or blade must take the place of being there. Lights-out management isn’t just for datacenters anymore. December 12, 3:00 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 Hardware isn't enough IT buyers live in a golden age of commodity hardware. Processors, servers, networks, storage, you name it: Every segment of the IT stack keeps getting faster, cheaper, and more commoditized. No surprise, then, that IT managers often resort to a checkbook-waving strategy, throwing hardware at every IT problem, from a balky WAN to an application speed bump. November 28, 3:00 a.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 Update: Cisco buys Scientific-Atlanta for $6.9 billion Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire Scientific-Atlanta in a deal valued at $6.9 billion, it said Friday. November 18, 7:14 a.m. PST Cisco may buy Scientific-Atlanta, say reports Cisco Systems is planning to announce the acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta for as much as $7 billion, according to news reports published on Friday. November 18, 4:15 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 Ericsson to buy most of Marconi for $2.1B Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Tuesday said it agreed to buy parts of struggling telecommunications equipment vendor Marconi for £1.2 billion ($2.1 billion). October 25, 7:12 a.m. PDT Cisco expands carrier Ethernet lineup Cisco Systems is getting ready to sell more gear into the burgeoning market for Ethernet services from carriers, preparing to introduce new switches and hardware modules at the Telecom 05 show in Las Vegas this week. October 25, 4:29 a.m. PDT Wireless broadband's long and winding road First, the good news: for companies planning to deploy broadband connectivity to their mobile workforces, the options have never looked better. Initial rollouts of 3G (third-generation) cellular data technology are fulfilling the technology’s promise. Sales and field forces can connect to the Internet and corporate applications from virtually anywhere, network speeds are reasonable, and deploying the technology requires only minimal IT investment. September 22, 1:00 p.m. PDT The fragile wireless network The veil was lifted from my eyes when Katrina hit. I realized that our wireless infrastructure, critical for relief efforts, was sorely lacking. September 13, 4:00 a.m. PDT Cisco's new IOS brings true process modularity to the core Cisco Systems' upgrade of its IOS (Internetwork Operating System) software for the Catalyst 6500 core switch is a major step in core-switching redundancy. The new IOS can separate core processes to reside within their own memory space, permitting traffic to flow through the switch even when certain subsystems are offline. If successful, this release will be a watershed event in the core-switching industry. September 5, 4:00 a.m. PDT Living in an all-Internet Protocol world Hossein Eslambolchi is a man of many titles. He is president of AT&T Global Networking Technology Services and AT&T Labs, as well as CIO and CTO of AT&T proper. When Hossein talks, I listen. And what he talks about in late August is the inevitable move to 100 percent IP networking. August 30, 4:00 a.m. PDT 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 Lucent gets subpoenas from US regulators Lucent Technologies has received subpoenas from U.S. federal agencies in relation to two separate investigations, the company disclosed Friday in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. August 5, 4:09 p.m. PDT The dumb remote office Management, compliance, and security concerns have made consolidation all the rage in large organizations, which have increasingly moved their applications and data from globally dispersed servers to a few centralized, tightly secured data centers. With the trend toward intelligent networks, we may one day see remote offices with very little intelligence of their own. July 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Building the intelligent network The days of the fat, dumb pipe, are over. Servers applications, and storage have been shouldering the intelligence and security burden for too long. It’s time for the network infrastructure itself to add some smarts. After all, when it comes to intelligence, the real beauty of the network is that it touches everything. July 18, 5:00 a.m. PDT Dell demonstrates dedication to PowerConnect line When I first looked at the Dell PowerConnect 3324 and 3348 switches in 2003, I was impressed by the feature-to-cost ratio, but I was wary of the switches’ long-term viability -- particularly their durability, but also Dell’s dedication to the line. Two years later, it certainly appears that Dell is not only committed, but it is actively injecting features and fixing bugs in previous firmware releases. July 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT Making sense of storage management Storage spawns where it’s needed, from sensibly architected SANs serving transaction-intensive systems to storage appliances bought impulsively to fill a departmental need. That leaves IT to manage many islands of storage strewn across the enterprise at a time when the need for centralized storage management has never been greater. Compliance requirements, multimedia-rich applications, and a proliferation of databases are pushing IT departments to increase the size and complexity of storage networks across the enterprise. July 11, 5:00 a.m. PDT > Hardware > Network hardware > Networking > Network hardware > Networking |
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