March 17, 2009 6:37 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Brocade,
Cisco,
DataCenter,
Foundry,
Juniper Networks,
NetworkingYesterday was Cisco's big day. The networking behemoth ended months of speculation about its move into the server market by unveiling its Unified Computing System, codenamed "California." As I sat through yesterday's video conference helmed by Cisco CEO John Chambers, I kept waiting for the...
March 12, 2009 8:08 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
DataCenter,
Networking,
SunCisco Systems will stage an online press conference on Monday with CEO John Chambers. He will be unveiling Cisco's vision of "Unified Computing," which CTO Padmasree Warrior describes in her blog as...
March 2, 2009 9:36 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
DataCenter,
HP ProCurve,
Networking,
Routing and switchingAlthough Cisco and HP no longer have a cozy data center relationship, HP's new $1 billion data center outsourcing deal with European insurance giant Aviva includes Cisco products.
The ten-year deal was struck between Aviva and EDS, HP's IT outsourcing business. According to HP's announcement of...
February 25, 2009 3:49 PM
Posted by: Michael Morisy
Cisco,
Man vs. Wild,
Monitoring,
NetQoSWhat happens when you take a grizzled network admin and drop him in the wilds of Texas? I'm not sure either, exactly, but NetQoS put up a Man vs. Wild spoof featuring Cisco routers and NetFlow grub. Bear Grylls he's not ... but then again, I hear Bear himself needs off-screen assistance when he's...
February 23, 2009 7:38 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
bankruptcy,
Cisco,
Citrix,
F5,
nortelOne of the circling vultures has finally picked some of the juiciest meat of the bones of Nortel. Israeli company Radware, an application delivery networking vendor, announced that it has agreed to buy...
February 18, 2009 6:34 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Blue Coat,
Cisco,
Colubris,
DataCenter,
EMC,
Force10,
HP ProCurve,
Routing and switching,
SolarWinds,
Virtualization,
VMwareWhat would the data center vendor market look like today if Carly Fiorina hadn't been ousted as CEO of HP back in 2005? Under her leadership, HP maintained a cozy detente with Cisco. The two mega-companies happily engaged data...