Microsoft reported its numbers, and the results are interesting for what they say about the computer market overall. The entertainment side was very strong, thanks to
March 3, 2011 3:43 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
data center,
equipment vendors,
Huawei
Image counts in every way and at every level of purchase decision-making. And Huawei is one vendor that knows that better than most. From the first, Huawei has been tarred with its association with China at multiple levels -- first as a poster child for the...
March 3, 2011 3:27 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cloud computing,
data center,
Juniper Networks,
PTX MPLS-optical supercore switch,
QFabricJuniper made its second major announcement in two weeks, this time its PTX MPLS-optical supercore switch. The product’s roots probably lie in early interest (“early” meaning the middle of the last decade) by...
October 4, 2010 11:59 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cloud computing,
customer experience,
data center,
VerizonVerizon announced it would be making a major investment in data centers for cloud computing, among other things. The major investment is that it will be adding space for more than 5,000 servers and expanding to about 200 data centers worldwide, including sites in Australia and the UK.
While...
September 28, 2010 3:54 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
blade servers,
Cisco,
data center,
Ethernet,
IBMIBM is acquiring Blade Network Technologies, an Ethernet switch vendor that specializes in blade-server switching for the data center and supports both IBM’s and HP’s blade centers. The move seems...
August 27, 2010 2:24 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Add new tag,
CDN,
Cisco,
content delivery,
content delivery network,
content management,
data center,
mergers & acquisitions,
service layer architectureCisco has announced it will acquire ExtendMedia, a content-management play that extends Cisco’s increasingly successful server-side content strategy for network operators. While operators originally saw content as being...
July 7, 2010 3:59 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cisco,
data center,
standardsCisco has delivered its own data center strategy, one that includes specific “pre-standard” support for a kind of layer 2/layer 3 convergence to improve the scaling of networks with a large number...
December 8, 2009 4:27 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cisco,
data center,
mergers & acquisitions,
service layer architecture,
telecom equipment vendorsCisco is expected to take a bold step this week and tell the financial community it can return to its historical targets of 12-18% growth, owing in part to the economic recovery and in part to Cisco’s radical moves to increase...
