Cisco Systems posted a small sales gain of 4 percent and a larger boost in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday. The company's revenue hit$11.7 billion for the quarter ended July 12,up 4 percent from a year earlier.Its net ...
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Network World - Cisco, Brocade, Dell among others have jumped on board and look to ride the wave that is software defined networking. This despite experts' assertions that SDNs threaten Cisco's dominance in the tech industry. As is ...
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Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualization. The company is augmenting its Application Fluent Network strategy with a ...
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Mycron Steel Bhd will agree to continue buying 50% of its raw material needs from Megasteel Sdn Bhd and the other half from abroad provided its three conditions are met. International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed ...
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Market dominating suppliers have been forced to get onboard with software defined networking (SDN) or face losing their customers as the trend takes off. This was the claim made by Shaun Walsh, vice-president of marketing at Emulex, who ...
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Theresa Caragol,VP, Global Channels, Extreme Networks, has revamped the company's channel approach. CW: You masterminded the channel program at your previous company, Ciena. How different is it to work with a company that already has a ...
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VMware today announced its intention to buy Nicira for $1.05bn. VMware already dominates the server virtualisation market, but with this latest buy is looking towards a stronger play in networking, thanks to Nicira’s focus on ...
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HP has announced a range of new products with built-in software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities, placing a huge bet on the emerging technology. The company claimed that while other vendors have embraced SDN – which offers ...
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The sixth and latest version of OpenStack software, code named Folsom is generally available today with new support for next-generation software-defined networking (SDN) baked in as a core component. OpenStack backers say Folsom continues ...
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VMware and EMC today confirmed rumors that have been circulating for weeks that it would spin out its big data and platform as a service (PaaS) cloud products into a new division within the company named Pivotal Initiative, which will be ...
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Bluescope Steel Malaysia, foresees the steel industry in 2013 to be buoyed by domestic demand in 2013, with the construction sector expected to grow by 11.2 per cent as announced in the recent budget. BlueScope Steel Malaysia comprising ...
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Brocade has bought Vyatta to boost its talent in the growing space of software-defined networking (SDN). Brocade did not reveal the value of the acquisition but confirmed the deal was all cash. Vyatta is known for its network ...
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Guardian Industries, based in Auburn Hills, Mich., announced today that it has signed a land purchase agreement in Malaysia. Guardian Industries Malaysia Sdn Bhd will purchase a 24-hectare (59.3-acre) patch of land in Mukim, Jasin, from ...
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Cisco has acquired vCider, a provider of virtual network overlay technology to support its Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy. VCider will become part of the company’s cloud computing division and support Cisco’s role in ...
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Further emphasizing Larry Ellison's fresh enthusiasm for cloud computing, Oracle has updated its Solaris Unix operating system with a number of new capabilities to give it greater cloud capabilities, including a new distributed storage file ...
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