This is a rough time for China in the U.S.Mitt Romney,the Republican presidential candidate,plans to declare on"day one,"if elected,that China is a currency manipulator.A congressional report this month said Chinese intelligence gathering ...
Tags: China, U.S.Mitt Romney, Cisco Systems, Gartner
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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Wi-Fi for Benetton staff and customers Easy Wi-Fi roll-out for Benetton Cloud-based management control cuts costs Benetton strikes a balance with Wi-Fi marketing The future for Wi-Fi at Benetton The High Street has always been a hub of ...
The use of video-conferencing by consumers and businesses may be increasing, but there is a need for a common standard to enable different services to work together. A Cisco survey found 79% of UK respondents want this standard to come ...
Tags: Video-Conferencing services, Video-Conferencing Standard, Microsoft
Reseller and cloud service provider, Mason IT has managed to avoid the use of costly storage area network (SAN) architecture, after deploying Nutanix for the cloud. Mason IT, which partners with Cisco, VMware, Juniper, Huawei and now ...
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Computerworld-WASHINGTON--There's a new television show,"Revolution,"which looks at what happens to society after every piece of complex technology,including power generation,stops working.The reasons for this outage aren't explained. ...
Tags: tech firms, China, supply chains, Cisco
Three storage suppliers used VMworld Europe 2012 to launch converged storage stacks. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) launched 11 Unified Computing Platform stacks, NetApp added SME-targeted ExpressPods to its existing FlexPod converged stack ...
Huawei today confirmed it was opening new headquarters in the Green Park area of Reading as it ramps up its investments in the UK. In September this year, the founder and CEO of the company, Ren Zhengfei, pledged 1.3bn to the UK arm of ...
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IDG News Service - Security researcher Felix "FX" Lindner has a more compelling reason to steer clear of routers from Huawei Technologies than fears about its ownership. While the company blasted for its opaque relationship with China's ...
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Polycom plans to break down one more set of barriers to videoconferencing early next year with a cloud-based software platform that can set up sessions with anyone who uses Facebook,Skype,or certain other online services. The ...
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Many companies are not taking into account modern technology and methods when approaching data security, said Cisco senior vice president of security and government, Chris Young, at a press roundtable in London today. Young labelled the ...
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BT has unveiled an updated portfolio for BT One which includes Microsoft Lync and mobile applications. BT has added cloud services and high-definition video end points to its unified communications(UC)BT One portfolio. The ...
Tags: cloud service, BT, UC, Luis Alvarez, Cisco
Cisco is to buy location analytics technology company ThinkSmart Technologies for an undisclosed sum. Cork-based ThinkSmart Technologies specialises in using Wi-Fi networks to monitor locations and collect data. It is often used in public ...
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The CIO role is set to disappear in the next 15 to 20 years,according to Groupama Insurances CIO Jem Eskenazi(pictured). In an interview with Computing,Eskenazi said that the CIO role that he currently performs is going through a ...
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