NetApp has claimed sales of its FlexPod integrated storage,server and networking stacks grew nearly 1,000%in a year. In a presentation at the NetApp Insight partner event in Dublin,product solutions and alliances director John Rollason ...
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Cisco Systems plans to build small cellular base stations,building upon its fast-growing business in Wi-Fi base stations for mobile operator networks,Chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. The move will bring the networking giant ...
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The U.S.and China are likely to resolve the conflict over potential security threats from Huawei Technologies'network equipment without a trade war,Cisco Systems chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. A U.S.Congressional report ...
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 ...
Big Switch Networks today unveiled its first software defined networking(SDN)products. Founded in 2010 in Palo Alto,the company has been developing its systems for two and a half years,beta testing them with companies such as Goldman ...
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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 ...
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Anyone who finds it hard to believe that the average U.S. mobile subscriber sent 696 text messages per month in the second quarter of this year may be relieved to know that this figure fell to 678 per month in the third quarter. It was ...
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EMC CEO Joe Tucci on Monday called for CEOs to put pressure on U.S. politicians to strike a budget deal, saying that the direction of the domestic and global economy depends on it. "I've never seen a time when the rest of the world was ...
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Verizon announced today it is extending its managed services offering for Microsoft Lync Server to its business customers by adding the ability to operate,monitor and manage unified communications and collaboration(UC&C)servers and ...
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As the US presidential election gathers pace,Silicon Valley looks on anxiously to see what effect more than 100 million American votes will make to the technology industry. Further reading US government agency drops BlackBerrys for ...
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Facebook has been carrying out trials with local businesses, exchanging free Wi-Fi for check-ins on the social network. The project is called Social Wi-Fi and sees Facebook offer a small number of firms routers and free Wi-Fi if they ...
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1. Philips Introduces LED BR30, Says 100w-Equivalent A21 to Ship Dec 1 Philips Lighting has announced a new LED BR30 that dims to a warm 2200K and an LED T8 retrofit tube with an external driver, and said that it will be first to market ...
In the last quarter, LED-based sales at Philips were 24% of total lighting sales. Also, the company has published a paper with Cisco that discusses connected public LED lighting in cities. Philips' ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc(RFMD)of Greensboro,NC,USA,a manufacturer of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies,has appointed Alan Hallberg as corporate vice president and chief marketing officer(CMO).As ...
The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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