List/Grid Tag Archives: Cisco
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…
Google to Keynote at Super WiFi Summit in Miami
TMC’s ITEXPO has had its fair share of high-profile keynoters, including Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, Bob Metcalfe, former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, former FCC Chairman Michael Powell, former HP Chair Carly Fiorina, Digium / Asterisk founder Mar…
Cisco Storms Into The Cloud Market
CloudVerse, a framework that combines unified data center, cloud intelligent networks and cloud applications, is Cisco’s cloud coming-out party, say company officials. Code-named Hurricane, CloudVerse is one of the company’s top five priorities. Cisco …
Jabra PRO 900 Series Unveiled
Today, Jabra launched the Jabra PRO 900 series, which includes two headset models – the Jabra PRO 920 (base unit wired to desk phone + headset is wireless) and the Jabra PRO 930 (base unit wired to PC [USB] + wireless headset). Jabra stated these are e…
