List/Grid Tag Archives: Cisco
dinCloud: Making a Big Impact in the Cloud
Have you reached the saturation point yet on the cloud? The endless cacophony of cloud messages seems to have transformed into white noise, where trying to distinguish and differentiate among competitive cloud offerings can leave one in either a state …
HP and Cisco Take Different Paths To SDN
News that Cisco Systems may release proprietary networking products implementing software-defined networking (SDN) technology, but not necessarily based on the emerging OpenFlow protocol, has executives at rival HP complaining about another Cisco vendo…
OASIS Targets Cloud Portability
The Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee recently formed by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), the not-for-profit open standards consortium, along with se…
IBM And NEC Leverage OpenFlow For High-Performance Networking
IBM and NEC are collaborating on high-performance OpenFlow deployments. OpenFlow, developed at Stanford University, has enjoyed acceptance in university networks because an OpenFlow network can run alongside the campus production network without impact…
Rise Of HTML5 Brings With It Security Risks
HTML5 is the new “it” protocol on the Internet. Among other things, it is an alternative to Adobe’s Flash for displaying content through a Web browser. No less an industry authority than the late Steve Jobs declared in 2010 that browsers on Apple devic…
Meraki Ups The Cloud-Based Networking Ante
Mainstream network players and those chasing them are out to erase the lines between wireless and wired networking. As the network edge gets redefined and the cloud makes its presence felt in LAN and WLAN spaces, announcements like Meraki’s latest upda…
Esnatech Releases Office-LinX 8.5, a Cloud-based UC Platform
Esnatech, today announced the release of version 8.5 of Office-LinX, a unified communications platform that enables enterprises to integrate UC with cloud-based technologies such as Google Apps, VMware Zimbra , Salesforce.com, and Microsoft BPOS/Office…
Are There No Fans For The FAN?
A few years ago, Brad O’Neill, then an analyst with the Taneja Group, coined the term FAN (file area network) to describe a virtualized file storage system. Organizations that build FANs that integrate multiple heterogeneous file stores presenting a si…
Brocade Acquisition Rumors Resurface
Brocade Communications is reportedly in negotiations with a private equity firm for a potential acquisition, Reuters said this week. According to reports in the financial press, the storage and networking infrastructure vendor has been working with Qat…
As Predicted – the Cisco Umi Demise
First Cisco killed the popular Flip Cam they acquired, now this – Cisco has killed their Skype-alternative UMI videoconferencing product. Rich Tehrani gave 10 reasons why he thought Cisco UMI would fail, plus an 11th reason later on (Kinect, Skype-enab…
