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Rackspace Delivers a Billion Reasons Why Cloud Works

Managed hosting vendor hits $1 billion in revenues for the first time as cloud business puts it over the top.

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.

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.

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.

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.

VeriSign Growing Revenues and Domain Name Base

As renewal of the .com registry nears, VeriSign posts strong 2011 results

Juniper Networks Q4 Revenues Decline

The big carriers are starting to spend less on networking gear and services and wasn't good for Juniper's Q4 but, for the year, the company came out nine percent ahead.

The Pros & Cons of Booting from SAN

Like most things, booting up from SAN vs. the server's hard drive does offer many benefits but there are few caveat emptors along the way. But, if managed correctly, they may not be that big a deal.

F5 Pitches ADCs as Firewalls

Application delivery controller vendor gets certified as a firewall solution enabling it to be used in PCI-DSS certification efforts.

Is Mobile Really a Network Threat?

Not yet but this will undoubtedly change given what usually happens with malware, the proliferation of Android and iOS devices in the enterprise, and the organized crime syndicates behind many of today's threats.

Liquid Cooling Gaining in Popularity Again

Data center energy consumption is a hot issues these days and liquid cooling vendors are betting they have the solutions that will cut costs and improve performance and utilization.

Intel Acquires InfiniBand

Intel is best known in the networking space for its Ethernet networking gear but with the $125M purchase of InfiniBand from QLogic, it's moving to take a place in InfiniBand, too.

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