September 21, 2010 2:29 PM
Posted by: rivkalittle
Cisco Subnet,
Interop,
LISA Usenix,
Network WorldDisclaimer: This author attended a snooty liberal arts college and may have registered for one too many womyn's studies classes.
September 8, 2010 4:19 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
access layer,
budget,
Gartner,
Local Area Network,
NetworkingLast week I wrote a story about how some enterprises save money by using commodity network switch vendors at the access edge of their local area networks. These low-cost vendors use...
September 2, 2010 10:53 AM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
Itron,
Networking,
Silver Spring Networks,
smart grid,
standardsCisco is aggressively building out its smart grid capabilities this week, announcing a major partnership with a smart reader company yesterday and buying a making of IP-based wireless network systems and software for energy management today.
Yesterday Cisco unveiled a
August 30, 2010 3:01 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
Network securityLast week I published a feature that took a long, hard look at Cisco's network security strategy. This story tackled a big subject so naturally I left out a few odds and ends and a little analysis. I...
August 30, 2010 12:33 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
RFID,
RTLS,
Wi-Fi,
Wireless networkingA school district in California is using location-based wireless technology to track preschoolers. I admit that when I first saw the headline for this story, I worried that the school was embedding RFID tags in the kids......
August 16, 2010 2:30 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
Cisco supply chain shortage,
NetworkingDuring his latest earnings call with Wall Street analysts, Cisco CEO John Chambers put a good spin on the supply chain issues that have plagued his company and many other IT vendors for more than a year as...
August 9, 2010 1:07 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
data center networks,
Networking,
vFabric,
Virtualization,
virtualization network,
VMware,
VMworld,
vswitchesA nice find by Stu Miniman at Wikibon. He dug up this video in which VMware's director of research and development Howie Xu previews his session at VMworld, "The Future Direction of Networking Virtualization.
In the video below, Xu talks about...
August 9, 2010 11:59 AM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
HP 3com acquisition,
HP Cisco battle,
HP Networking,
HP ProCurve,
Networking,
scandalWhen something like the Mark Hurd scandal happens, we in the media spend a lot of time quoting pundits about what impact the event could have on the markets we...
