The deal is being touted as combining Secure Computing’s strengths in firewall, Web and e-mail gateway filtering with McAfee’s intrusion …
Brocade gearing up to fight ‘Cisco fatigue’
With its acquisition of Ethernet vendor Foundry Networks expected to close by year's end, the storage networking company will have …
Cisco to enter blade server market?
In a bulletin issued this week as a preview to Cisco's Sept. 16 analyst conference, investment firm UBS states that …
Dell unwraps products designed for virtualization
On Wednesday, Dell introduced two blade servers, support for more capacity in its storage products, and new partnerships with companies …
Extreme Networks, HP boost VoIP security
Extreme Networks plans to unveil a software upgrade to its security appliances designed to better safeguard VoIP traffic. Separately, HP …
Leviton names new ME boss
As Managing Director for Middle East Sales, Nassif will be headquartered in Dubai and spearhead sales of the company’s line …
Going virtual
Are Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPNs the way to go? For many corporate network needs the answer is yes, absolutely, …
Vendors scramble to rein in virtual environments
The rush to virtualize data-center resources has players across the entire IT landscape working to deliver virtualization products and win …
As Google turns 10, enterprise success in question
As the search giant celebrates its 10th anniversary of incorporation this month, riding a years-long bonanza from its search business, …
Virtual possibilities
In today's complex IT environments, server virtualisation simply makes sense. Redundant server hardware can rapidly fill enterprise datacenters to capacity; …
CIOs lack the ‘green’ to go green
Seventy-six percent of executives queried do not have a committed budget for a greening policy, even though 90% believe that …
HP launches product blitz for virtualisation
The products include a ProLiant blade server “built from the ground up” for virtualisation, four thin-client computers for virtualising desktops, …
Cisco buys into e-mail with $215 million PostPath acquisition
Cisco is buying PostPath, a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities …
New EMC Celerra NX4
With a flexible design enabling it to be deployed in NAS (network attached storage), iSCSI and Fibre Channel SAN (storage …
Fujitsu readies eight-core Sparc64 chip
Fujitsu's Takumi Maruyama mentioned the chip briefly at the end of a presentation at the Hot Chips conference in Palo …
Dell gains, Sun loses in worldwide server market
IBM retained the top spot but had slower revenue growth than Dell, while HP stayed in second place with hardly …
More cores, bigger cache give boost to Dunnington
Code-named Dunnington, the six-core Xeon processor is designed for servers that have four or more processors. Manufactured using a 45-nanometer …
HP results gain on laptop, blade sales
Revenue rose 10 percent to US$28 billion in the quarter, which ended July 31, compared with the same quarter last …
Untangling the LAN
When troubleshooting a network outage, nothing is more annoying than going through dozens of hardware and software checks only to …
Videoconferencing on the rise for corporate communication
Remember the days when communicating with colleagues always involved walking down the hall? Now voicemail and e-mail are the norm …