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The Beginning of the End for SANs?

The rise of solid state storage solutions and PCIe-based NAND storage appliances are giving SANs a run for their money as new agile companies vie for the high ground.

Alcatel-Lucent Reports First Yearly Profit

After six years, Alcatel-Lucent is turning the corner and showing a profit, the company's lightRadio is in the field and it's going to license its patents.

You Can Never Really Get Rid of Botnets

The much ballyhooed Kelihos botnet take down shines a bright light on the human side of botnets and why they are probably going to be with us for a long time, writes Gunter Ollmann of Damballa.

Cisco Delivers Strong Second Quarter Earnings

Q2 earnings topped the company's projections but Q3 is expected to come in a little lower. Cisco's UCS platform is growing by leaps and bounds.

Google Tops Greenpeace's Cool IT Rankings

Google beats Cisco to the top spot in Greenpeace's list of eco-friendly IT companies while much of the industry doesn't even have a plan in place to lower their eco-footprint.

New ACX Routers Usher in Universal Access

Juniper Networks is rolling out a portfolio of five routers this week as part of a new end-to-end solution called Universal Access for connecting business, residential and mobile networks. 

vCloud Integration Manager ties Cloud and CRM Together

VMware vCloud integration manager expedites cloud deployments by enabling service providers to integrate CRM info into the provisioning of cloud services.

In Defense of Enterprise Architecture

With cloud and virtualization leading the redesign of data center around the world, it's a question that has been circulating for some time now: Does architecture matter anymore?

Network Virtualization Startup Nicira Emerges from Stealth

Like server virtualization, Nicira plans to make the physical network virtual, keeping benefits and doing away with limitations. The company already has eBay, Rackspace and AT&T as customers.

HP Opens Up Its Switches to OpenFlow

HP is taking the bold step of being the first major vendor to offer full commercial support for OpenFlow software defined networking technology.

Riverbed Debuts Granite for the Edge

New Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure effort is introduced to aid branch consolidation and WAN optimization and powered by a new hardware series called Granite.

Cloud Storage Vendors Offering Encryption as a Service

Some of the technologies accelerating the use of EaaS include hardware-based encryption key storage, cloud storage and virtualization.

Cisco Accelerates Switching Portfolio

Catalyst and Nexus switches will now benefit from 40G and 100G Ethernet speeds as well as more ports and virtual networking technology.

Brocade Leveraging Perl to Boost ADCs

Following on the heels of it's 12.3 ADC release that improved IPv6 performance, Brocade is providing more scriptable extensibility via Perl but it staying away from the firewall moniker unlike rival F5.

Time for a WAN Optimization Do Over?

WAN optimization is moving from per-need to must-have as cloud infrastructures, offerings, services and Big Data become the norm in most data centers.

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