Every large multinational firm investigated by Cisco for its latest Security Report showed signs of malicious traffic on their networks, the networking company has revealed.
Dell, Cisco, others hit back after being named in NSA spying toolkit
The world’s largest networking vendors have hit back at claims their products have been compromised by the National Security Agency after being named in an NSA spying toolkit.
What wearable tech has up its sleeve for CES 2014
Wearable technology is an exploding field in desperate need of a category-defining product. And now, with the Consumer Electronics Show upon us, we get to see whether any company can release an uncompromised, mainstream consumer hit in 2014.
Innovate to profit
Adrian Pickering, Area Vice President, MEA, and Mario Georgiou, Area Partner Director, MEA, from Juniper Networks discuss the company’s partner strategy and the way forward
Westcon wins ‘MEA Commercial Distributor Partner of the Year 2013’
Juniper Networks has awarded Westcon Group at its annual Middle East & Africa regional partner summit in Dubai, U.A.E. The award recognises partners who have made the most notable contribution to their customers and have expanded their business value with Juniper throughout 2013.
Analysis: security weak spots
Reading the coverage of the recent breach of Adobe passwords, we learned that 1.9 million users used “123456” as their password. That’s right: out of 38 million cracked passwords, almost two million adults used ones more suited to five-year-olds.
Middle East, Africa record highest Ethernet sales in Q3
The growing popularity of 10 Gigabit and 40 Gigabit Ethernet in data centres helped the Middle East Ethernet switch market record the highest third quarter increase, according to IDC.
Fortinet unveils ‘world’s fastest’ firewall appliance, teases large partnership news
Network security specialist Fortinet this week used GITEX to regionally launch its new FortiGate-3700D solution, which the vendor claimed is the world’s fastest data centre firewall appliance.
Report: Ford CEO downplays chatter that he’s in line to replace Ballmer
Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally, considered a front-runner among candidates to replace Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, has reportedly tried to put the brakes on the accelerating rumours.
If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smart watches, are you successful?
Sales of so-called “smart watches” will surge from 1 million to 36 million in five years, according to a speculative new report from Juniper Research. But whether that defines “success” remains an open question.
With Ballmer retiring, tech world awaits white smoke from Redmond
Mere days into the Steve Ballmer Successor Watch, guessing who will be his replacement has become a new tech industry …
Riverbed stands alone in Leaders Quadrant for WAN-optimised controllers in Gartner's Magic Quadrant
Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, recently announced that the company has been positioned by Gartner in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2013 “Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers”.
Riverbed appoints general manager for Middle East and North Africa region
Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, recently announced Taj Elkhayat as the new general manager for the Middle East and North Africa region.
Prologix partners with Fluke Networks
Prologix Distribution has signed a partnership agreement with Fluke Networks to deliver the vendor’s range of network monitoring, analysis, troubleshooting and security solutions to enterprise customers and SMBs in the UAE.
Wearable computers, anyone?
Are you ready for talking watches, singing shoes and rings that can double up as Bluetooth headsets?
Mobile malware, mainly aimed at Android devices, jumps 614% in a year
The number of mobile malware apps has jumped 614 percent in the last year, according to studies conducted by McAfee and Juniper Networks.
Most Android threats would be blocked if phones ran latest Android version, report says
Over three quarters of Android threats are malicious apps that send SMS messages to premium rate numbers and could be mitigated by a protection feature present in Android 4.2, according to researchers from networking vendor Juniper Networks.
Brocade unleashes a data centre barrage
Brocade this week extended its data centre networking portfolio with hardware and software enhancements designed to better integrate and align physical …
Soft launch
The idea of software-defined networking (SDN) has taken off, though it has hardly seen a launch of epic proportions. We …
LTE subscribers to double by 2014
The number of global subscribers to 4G LTE mobile broadband technology is set to double over the next two years, …