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Advanced switching grabs Interop New York spotlight
Switching will take center stage at this week’s Interop New York conference, where vendors such as Foundry Networks, Enterasys
Networks and Force 10 Networks will roll out new and enhanced products in defiance of a downcast IT spending environment.
The benefits of an open source SOA
Service-oriented architectures are helping companies do everything from automate business processes to increase agility, but
implementing the technology is not necessarily forthright.
Wal-Mart's RFID revolution a tough sell
Pacific Coast Producers represents an important RFID success story, but the company's enthusiastic embrace of the technology
is the exception more than the rule.
Meet the eBay of wireless spectrum
SpecEx.com is billed as the first fully online, fully automated exchange for buying, selling and leasing spectrum licensed
by the FCC. The Web site is run by a start-up called Spectrum Bridge, which aims to bridge the gap between buyers and sellers
in the secondary spectrum market.
Microsoft sets virtualization story, but licensing may need review
Microsoft last week fleshed out more of its virtualization story, outlining everything from management to migration but leaving
out some licensing details it may have to revisit.
Data leaks a people problem not a technical one
Data-leak prevention is more of a people and policy problem, not a technical one, according to some information-technology
professionals who have gotten their feet wet with deploying DLP.
Vendors tackle virtualization security
Companies such as Altor Networks, Catbird and HP showcase at VMworld 2008 products designed to protect data, keep virtual
environments compliant and secure traffic between virtual machines.
VMware readies for CEO Maritz’s public debut
VMware’s new CEO Paul Maritz will outline the company’s strategy in a highly anticipated VMworld keynote
IEEE readies launch of gigabit Wi-Fi project
The IEEE working group that is putting the finishing touches on the 802.11n 100Mbps wireless LAN standard is about to launch
a new project, for a 1Gbps WLAN standard.
Why the FCC slashed reporting requirements for carriers
An overview of how the FCC’s ruling will change carriers’ reporting requirements, as well as the different arguments both
in favor and against changing these requirements
IT budgets suffer more shrinkage
Goldman Sachs and Forrester Research separately report that enterprise high-tech buyers are tightening their purse strings
and backing off from investing a lot of cash in IT.
Dell targets under-performing virtual machines with new blades, storage
Dell announced a broad set of services and hardware designed to optimize both storage and server virtualization on Wednesday.
Start-up takes on application management in virtual environments
Founded by former Wily Technology (now part of CA), IBM Tivoli and Relicore (now part of Symantec) veterans, BlueStripe Software
tackles application performance management across physical and virtual resources.
Kace acquires application virtualization technology
Kace intends to expand its product suite of systems management capabilities to include application virtualization and compete
with desktop offerings from the likes of VMware, Microsoft and Altiris (now part of Symantec).
Cisco pushes 'network memory' to alleviate high-speed bottlenecks
A Cisco engineer has been recognized for his work on scaling router and switch performance with algorithms he developed at
a start-up Cisco acquired three years ago.
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