RIM has developed a knack for pulling customers into new BlackBerry devices. That's no mean feat. BlackBerry is the most …
Sun offers open-source encryption key management protocol
Sun Microsystems Inc. announced that it is throwing its hat into the standards arena, proposing that its open-source key management …
Data Center design: Form follows function
American architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modernism, is widely credited with the key axiom of 20th century modern architecture: …
Loving the cloud
Back in 1991, before the Internet was a big deal, Ohio State University technologist Jerry Martin signalled the nascent Internet's …
HP, IBM push new OASIS encryption key standard
A group of industry vendors, led by IBM, Hewlett-Packard and EMC, is proposing a new standard to make their encryption …
Fiber Channel, CEE, and FCoE – what they’re really all about
Over the last ten years, Fiber Channel has become the standard technology worldwide for Storage Area Networks (SANs) and external …
Looking inside the MPLS network
Visibility into the service providers' networks has always been a bit of a conundrum. The simpler the network, the less …
Alcatel-Lucent broadens Carrier Ethernet lineup
The company's 7210 Service Access Switch is designed to be owned and managed by the service provider as a component …
Alcatel-Lucent broadens Carrier Ethernet lineup
Alcatel-Lucent this week unveiled enhancements to its Carrier Ethernet lineup that include a customer premises switch for business VPNs. The …
The cloud-SOA connection
Cloud computing may have overtaken SOA as the trendy technology term du jour, but the two concepts can be paired …
The incredible shrinking operating system
From the software concept called JeOS (pronounced “juice”), the Just Enough OS, to hardware concepts like Celio RedFly, an 8-inch …
Reaching toward unity
Storage resource management (SRM) products provide the means for collecting information on the heterogeneous resources – operating systems, host computers, …
Trends that will change our lives
The past two years have been exciting ones for mobility, with the dawn of netbooks, 4G communications and the first …
Cisco warns of four WLAN controller vulnerabilities
Cisco issued a security alert warning of a quartet of vulnerabilities affecting all of its wireless LAN controllers, including the …
Project management for networking geeks
Network professionals are typically well-versed in the technical aspects of networking: router and switch configuration, server deployment and management, and …
Companies warned over ‘aging’ firewalls
According to U.K.-based Pentura, firewalls are typically managed by a succession of admins who create their own rules, which then …
Blue Coat introduces application performance dashboard
Blue Coat Systems has announced a new version of Blue Coat IntelligenceCenter software and a new software release for its …
Norton Utilities brand revived for Windows XP, Vista
Symantec announced it has revived the Norton Utilities optimization and cleanup tools for Windows that it folded years ago into …
Avaya inks pact with HP ProCurve
In a move designed to provide customers with flexible and cost-effective options for integrating Unified Communications and IP Telephony solutions …
How carriers will weather the recession
Although Verizon and AT&T have continued to post solid earnings over the past year, they are unlikely to emerge from …