September 25, 2009 5:23 PM
Posted by: rivkalittle
Cisco,
EnergyWise,
IP smart objects,
network device management,
Network managementIt is ironic that right as Gartner released research showing engineers are managing 20% to 30% more network components than they were last year, networking pros are about to receive even more on...
September 22, 2009 3:11 PM
Posted by: Tessa Parmenter
data center,
data center networks,
green data center management,
Green IT,
NetworkingJust because it's the last day of summer (summer ends at 5:18 pm today) doesn't mean you won't see less green. Although the leaves in New England are already turning colors, more and more businesses are turning toward environmentally-friendly solutions to save money as well as the planet:...
September 17, 2009 7:38 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Avaya,
Avaya-Nortel acquisition,
Networking,
nortelAvaya has tried to be a networking vendor in the past (Anyone remember Cajun switches? I think you can still buy one in Thailand). The market has not been friendly to it.
And yet, with this week's news that Avaya won the bidding war for Nortel's enterprise division, the company is now on its way...
September 11, 2009 3:40 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
On Wednesday I reported that many wireless LAN vendors are having supply chain problems. The semiconductor manufacturers who supply key components for wireless LAN access points are struggling to...
September 3, 2009 2:27 PM
Posted by: rivkalittle
Cisco certification,
data center,
green data center management,
IBM data center degree,
network certification,
virtualization administratorIt was only a matter of time before you could get a degree in virtualization. IBM has created a two-year associates degree in green data center management.
The program, developed in conjunction with...
September 1, 2009 2:55 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Brocade,
Cisco,
converged Ethernet,
data center networks,
Dell,
Ethernet,
Foundry,
HP ProCurve,
IBM,
Storage,
Unified Computing SystemIt's debatable just how much Cisco's move into the server market with its launch of the Unified Computing System (UCS) has truly soured the networking giant's strategic alliances with IBM and Dell,...