There is a fundamental tenet in business: “If the rate of change outside an organisation is greater than the rate …
Fortinet debuts database vulnerability assessment appliance
The FortiDB-1000B appliance is a mid-enterprise product designed to “harden” databases by detecting weaknesses in passwords, access privileges and configuration …
Brocade gearing up to fight ‘Cisco fatigue’
With its acquisition of Ethernet vendor Foundry Networks expected to close by year's end, the storage networking company will have …
SanDisk says no to Samsung takeover bid
The two companies had been in takeover talks for about four months, but Samsung went public with its offer Tuesday, …
Study shows glacial pace of IPv6 adoption
The report, from Arbor Networks, claims to be the most comprehensive study of IPv6 use to date. It includes few …
Leviton names new ME boss
As Managing Director for Middle East Sales, Nassif will be headquartered in Dubai and spearhead sales of the company’s line …
Going virtual
Are Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPNs the way to go? For many corporate network needs the answer is yes, absolutely, …
Vendors scramble to rein in virtual environments
The rush to virtualize data-center resources has players across the entire IT landscape working to deliver virtualization products and win …
As Google turns 10, enterprise success in question
As the search giant celebrates its 10th anniversary of incorporation this month, riding a years-long bonanza from its search business, …
CIOs lack the ‘green’ to go green
Seventy-six percent of executives queried do not have a committed budget for a greening policy, even though 90% believe that …
HP launches product blitz for virtualisation
The products include a ProLiant blade server “built from the ground up” for virtualisation, four thin-client computers for virtualising desktops, …
E-mail and Innovation
I have forever struggled to manage my outlook in a way that is easy, intuitive and productive to find information …
Nortel and LG Electronics demonstrate mobile LTE handover
Engineers at Nortel’s Research and Development Centre of Excellence in Ottawa showed streaming HD video on an early LTE mobile …
Cisco buys into e-mail with $215 million PostPath acquisition
Cisco is buying PostPath, a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities …
WiMax to slash device time-to-market
For today's cellular networks, it typically takes six to eight weeks for a carrier to certify a handset or other …
More cores, bigger cache give boost to Dunnington
Code-named Dunnington, the six-core Xeon processor is designed for servers that have four or more processors. Manufactured using a 45-nanometer …
Untangling the LAN
When troubleshooting a network outage, nothing is more annoying than going through dozens of hardware and software checks only to …
Videoconferencing on the rise for corporate communication
Remember the days when communicating with colleagues always involved walking down the hall? Now voicemail and e-mail are the norm …
Cisco Nexus 5000 bridges the network gap
A switch that promises to deliver the services of Ethernet and FC over the same wire without packet losses and …
AMD to make a splash in the server chipset space
The new chipset will be geared toward servers, with multiple sockets to plug in additional server chips. The chipset could …