AT&T climbs to top in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for global network service providers
Profile: Shamus McGillicuddy
Gartner has published its first Magic Quadrant for the global network service providers since the summer of 2007. As you probably know, the Magic Quadrant is a market assessment tool that rates vendors on their...
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Aruba courts Nortel customers with multivendor WLAN management suite
Profile: Shamus McGillicuddy
Aruba Networks has joined the growing ring of vultures circling above Nortel Networks' Toronto headquarters, where executives are busily trying to restructure Nortel while under the cover of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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‘Get with the Programmer’ contest seeks hottest tech guy
Are you the Romeo of routing? The Orlando Bloom of the OSI model? Here's your chance to shine...
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Belkin offered cash for positive reviews of router
Profile: Shamus McGillicuddy
The Daily Background blog has created quite a stir for pointing out that a Belkin buisness devleopment rep was offering money for positive...
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Riverbed gets Mazu Networks for a bargain
Profile: Shamus McGillicuddy
WAN optimization heavyweight Riverbed Technology gobbled up Mazu Networks this week for just $25 million in cash. Mazu is a privately held company that sells network behavior analysis (NBA) tools that analyze the...
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Maintstream IPv6 is inching closer
Profile: Shamus McGillicuddy
Over the last year I've written about the importance of developing your IPv6 skills now, and about how you should be looking at what kind of 0 Comments
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CNN viewers spooked by Cisco ad during flight 1549 coverage
You know how sometimes you're watching TV and the commercials seem to bear an uncanny resemblance to the program... and you wonder if it was just coincidence, or some kind of prank on the part of the programmers? In Cisco's case, the coincidental placement of their TelePresence "Business Travel...
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Cisco’s Warrior may be Washington-bound for Obama CTO post
Last spring at Cisco Networkers, I remember some jokes being bandied about regarding John Chambers as a potential candidate for president. It now seems that Cisco is actually quite close to having a representative in Obama's administration. According to published reports, Cisco CTO Padmasree...
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PCI Compliance: Not easy, but not optional
Profile: Michael Morisy
While working on a story about how updates to PCI compliance rules will phase out WEP for retailers who process credit cards, I came across one of the more interesting takes on PCI compliance, by...
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How network engineers can avoid the data center move blues
Profile: Tessa Parmenter
Just because we're surrounded by bad news doesn't mean we can't turn our lemons into lemonade. That's at least what network management software solution company Advanced Systems Group (ASG) has done (not to be confused with the
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