Hewlett-Packard will buy LeftHand Networks for US$360 million to fill in its storage virtualization and iSCSI lines with products for …
Microsoft amassing high-performance server software attack
Microsoft will apply its strategy of “simplifying computing” to the costly and often complex high-performance computing world. In this case …
Data networks won’t cut it for convergence
Today's data networks won't cut it as foundations for real-time applications like voice and video, experts said this week at …
Six steps to an effective data governance program
In the past few years, dozens of high-profile incidents involving data mismanagement have gained international attention. Caught off guard by …
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 …
Avaya debuts affordable UC solutions
The new Avaya Unified Communications solutions provide essential tools for the way employees work today, with proven, interoperable software, hardware …
Going virtual
Are Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPNs the way to go? For many corporate network needs the answer is yes, absolutely, …
Virtual possibilities
In today's complex IT environments, server virtualisation simply makes sense. Redundant server hardware can rapidly fill enterprise datacenters to capacity; …
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 …
WiMax to slash device time-to-market
For today's cellular networks, it typically takes six to eight weeks for a carrier to certify a handset or other …
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 …
Untangling the LAN
When troubleshooting a network outage, nothing is more annoying than going through dozens of hardware and software checks only to …
AMD to make a splash in the server chipset space
The new chipset will be geared toward servers, with multiple sockets to plug in additional server chips. The chipset could …
MPLS explained
So although carriers build MPLS backbones, the services that users buy may not be called MPLS. They could be called …