Network World-Four things are clear from Ciscos better-than-expected Q1 FY 2013 results: Ciscos resolve to become the No.1 vendor in IT Collaboration and TelePresence remain challenging product areas for the company Europe and the public ...
Network World - Microsoft's Office 365 service has suffered two email outages within a week of each other that affected some customers in North and South America that stemmed from different causes but ended in the same result: failed email ...
At a time when cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure have increased 17-fold(between 2009 and 2011),the need for highly trained cybersecurity professionals is acute.However,83%of federal hiring managers in a recent survey said it ...
Network World-Extreme Networks this week unveiled 100G and 40G Ethernet modules as well as SDN application support for its BlackDiamond X8 core switch. Extreme's 100/40G XL modules are designed to help scale BlackDiamond X8 networks for ...
Tags: Networks, application, cloud data, hardware
An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers,which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit,Imgur,AirBNB and ...
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Network World-The discovery of a somewhat alarming bug in the Linux ext4 filesystem provoked a minor wave of panic this week,but project maintainer Theodore Ts'o says it has since become clear that the problem can likely only affect a small ...
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Sycamore Networks(NASDAQ--SCMR),whose optical switches and telecom software have powered carrier networks around the world since 1998,says it is shutting down.The company is selling off assets of its Intelligent Bandwidth Management ...
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Network World-SAN DEIGO--If the OpenStack Summit held this week is any indication,virtual networking is a hot IT topic. A panel discussion about virtual networking in the cloud featuring representatives from HP,Big Switch and Midokura was ...
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Those layoffs happening at Juniper might be to dress the company up for a sale. That's some of the speculation swirling inside the company,fueled by reports that Juniper's hired an investment banker to manage bids from potential ...
Tags: layoff, EMC, ISI Group, Juniper, joint venture, Kevin Johnson
Network World-Midokura,a Japanese startup focused on network virtualization,this week said it is entering the U.S.market with a distributed software defined network product designed for Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS). The companys ...
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Network World-There has been much debate about the preferred wireless platform for application developers.Every platform has its own advantages and challenges,and there are key points developers need to keep in mind when choosing the most ...
Tags: wireless platform, interaction flow, ecosystem level, Windows 8
Network World - Stop thinking of Microsoft as just a software company; it's not anymore, according to CEO Steve Ballmer. "It truly is a new era at Microsoft," he says in his annual letter to shareholders, and that means the company is ...
Network World - If you follow cloud computing, you're no doubt familiar with software as a service, typically associated with Salesforce.com, or infrastructure as a service, which was pioneered by Amazon.com. But how about CaaS, SECaaS, ...
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Network World - Even as social networking continues to gain in popularity, email remains the undisputed workhorse of messaging, far eclipsing all other forms of electronic communication. Email administration can be a costly function, ...
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Network World - ERP systems are used throughout most large enterprises, with SAP and Oracle accounting for 80% or more of the installed based in regulated sectors such as pharma and energy. But these same systems, with their million ...
Tags: ERP, systems, enterprises