Businesses could be wasting money by prematurely upgrading computer technology, new research shows. The study revealed that nearly 80 percent of companies refresh their networking infrastructure — the hardware supporting campus networks, data center networks, routing (WAN) and … Continue reading
Mindspeed, which bought picoChip earlier this year, is the foremost vehicle for getting ARM into networking infrastructure. As the infrastructure smarts move to the edge of the network (i.e. the box in your home or office) ARM-based SOC is the best … Continue reading
Cintas specializes in providing integrated storage and archiving, shredding, scanning, and digitization systems for document management. Azzurri’s Icon platform was chosen after a competitive tender process to find a system that would provide security, … Read more:
Machine to Machine (M2M) technology is what makes the “Smart Grid” smart. We often hear about the many benefits of smart grid technology, but we rarely examine the backbone of that concept. M2M technology that comprises the smart grid includes … Continue reading
Last week, Jason Calacanis wrote an article on how Google Fiber is not an experiment but a plan to take over this market and kill Cable and carriers altogether. Sure, there is an intriguing story to tell when you compare prices: … Continue reading
New Dell Active Fabric Manager provides graphical user interface, single-pane-of-glass planning, configuration, management and monitoring, reducing design and deployment times by up to 86 percent compared to manual processes…Read more:
–Intel announces several hardware and software tools aimed to boost data center networking efficiency and performance, including Intel(R) Open Network Platform Switch and Intel(R) Open Network Platform Server reference designs and Intel(R) Data Plane Development Kit Accelerated Open vSwitch…. Read … Continue reading
Decisions lets Microsoft System Center administrators extend and enhance operations around Orchestrator and Configuration Manager to include more end-user interaction. Portal/interface and intelligent components help accelerate creation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of automated workflows. Expressability Deployment Automation Framework provides intelligence layer … Continue reading
It’s a hot topic right now, highlighting the fact that the network is at the center of the market transitions driven by Mobile, Cloud, new breeds of Apps and the Internet of Things. As Cisco said, technical leaders from the … Continue reading
Recently I was asked to upgrade all our managed NETGEAR switches to the latest firmware to assist with network monitoring and troubleshooting. We weren’t trying to solve a specific problem; we just wanted to make sure we had all the … Continue reading
Cisco Systems continues to dominate a worldwide Ethernet switch market that saw revenue hit $5.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012, a slight decline from the same period a year earlier but a healthy jump from the third quarter. … Continue reading
There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed at network virtualization via the creation of multiple virtual Ethernet … Continue reading
Message Analyzer is the successor of Network Monitor but does much more than a network sniffer or packet tracing tool… Read more: RB: I am going to try this beta out.
Jack Wallen demonstrates how to connect to SMB shares on your desktop from your Android tablet with ASTRO File Manager. Read more RB: This is a great app for all of you on the Android platform. The SMB connectivity is … Continue reading
The IEEE has announced a new group that will work on next-gen wired Ethernet to potentially achieve speeds of up to one terabit per second, or Tbps, by 2015 and 10Tbps by 2020. Known as the IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections … Continue reading
Windows Server 2012 Network Virtualization and Infrastructure as a … In this article, we’ll discuss two key issues that could make it difficult to run a hosted private cloud network of massive scale.
Heading into the cloud: Managing network performance across a unified fabric Network World And conventional performance management solutions designed to collect specific types of data that must be aggregated and reported on centrally, can’t scale or provide immediate visibility across … Continue reading
