August 4, 2011 1:15 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cisco,
Video,
Videoscape
Cisco is consolidating its video activities into a single unit and its
Videoscape head is leaving. The decision seems an odd one to me if you look at things from a market...
July 19, 2011 6:26 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cisco,
financials,
IBMA tale of two companies, and possibly an example of unfortunate timing as well. Cisco yesterday announced it was laying off 6,500 workers, and IBM announced it was raising its guidance after having...
July 18, 2011 4:23 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cisco,
Citrix,
Cloud computing,
HP,
IBM,
Microsoft,
Open source,
Virtualization,
VMwareIn yet another price change that angers customers, VMware announced a new pricing strategy for its vSphere 5, and the new pricing could create significant...
July 12, 2011 11:49 AM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Alcatel-Lucent,
Cisco,
Facebook,
Google,
Huawei,
IMS,
Microsoft,
networking revenue,
Skype,
Social networking,
voice servicesAs some things change, others stay the same. That’s about how I see things fresh from two weeks in Brazil. We’re seeing changes in the networking business space as Google vies anew with Facebook and Twitter, and yet the moves raise the same issues we’ve faced all along. In the economic...
June 24, 2011 4:02 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
100 Gigabit Ethernet,
Alcatel-Lucent,
edge networks,
FP3,
network monetization,
routers and switchesAlcatel-Lucent provided its own ballyhoo with the announcement that the company had promised would make the Internet faster. I'm not big on ballyhoo, and I have to...
June 16, 2011 6:23 PM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Cisco,
ecosystem,
HP,
IBM,
product lineIBM, a company now known for computers but once in the more pedestrian business of time-clocks and scales, turns 100 years old today. If you consider this for a moment you’ll see that makes IBM perhaps the longest-standing tech success in all of history. Considering the tumult that it’s...
June 16, 2011 1:46 AM
Posted by: Tom Nolle
Alcatel-Lucent,
Cisco,
Ericsson,
Juniper,
NSN,
OSS/BSS,
TelcordiaThere was probably joy in finance-land when Ericsson made its move to acquire Telcordia. The company -- formerly Bell Communications Research or Bellcore -- was at the same time the “labs” of the RBOCs and the foundation for the support of and
