A New Net

Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

...itting in Nicira's boardroom, exchange quick glances and are careful not to name any companies—even Cisco Systems, the world's leading maker of routers and switches. They're being diplomatic; Nicira has already re......s approach means hardware will be devalued. Guru Chahal, a director of product management who leads Cisco's work on virtualization, agrees that networks need to become more configurable, but he says that t... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco touts 10,000 UCS customers

Explore GigaOM (Jan 18 2012) Servers

...rian Modoff, analyst with Deutsche Bank. The figure also represents growth off a very small base — Cisco still doesn’t crack the top five server vendors by unit market share. Cisco touts 10,000 UCS customers By Barb Darrow Jan. 18, 2012, 5:00am PT No Comments * Tweet * * * Cisco Systems says it now has 10,000 Unified Computing Systems customers for it’s not quite three-year-old produc...... of those 10 ... (Read Full Article)

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Michael Dell, end-to-end, PC to the Data Center

Explore greenm3.com (Oct 5 2011) Grid Computing , Servers

...on. Michael emphasizes they go embrace the PC. 2. We Still Love Hardware: Without mentioning Hewlett-Packard by name, Dell took a few shots at HP’s potential PC division spin-out. Dell said his company has rapidly evolved from PCs to servers to ......ol, contribute to it or both. Where is the money savings? This is another problem I see with Cisco and VMware’s uber virtual data center solutions.  Where ... (Read Full Article)

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Juniper Touts New Kit To Meet Mobile Challenge

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 3 2011) Networking

...tives also want to use their iPads and smartphones, Dasgupta said. Other network vendors, including Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard, also are working to provide enterprises with the tools needed to address the BYOD trend. For examp...... He said Juniper is utilising a number of advantages it has over its larger rivals – in particular, Cisco and HP – including the common Junos operating system and partnerships with the likes of Dell and ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft’s Muglia Heads To Juniper

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 26 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

Former Microsoft executive Bob Muglia will work with Juniper to compete with Cisco and HP in networking Juniper Networks is hiring former long-time Microsoft executive Bob Muglia to head u......of that software with their hardware – as a key differentiator in its competition with the likes of Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. Central to that portfolio is the Junos Networking operating system, which is the software platform... (Read Full Article)

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Chambers: Cisco Continues to Reinvent Itself

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 15 2011) Cloud Computing

...re, collaboration, data center-virtualization-cloud computing, video and architectures. * Chambers: Cisco Continues to Reinvent Itself * Chambers: Cisco Continues to Reinvent Itself July 15th, 2011 : John Rath Cisco Systems has wrapped up its Cisco Live! 2011 conference, which brought together 15,000 people in Las Vegas (and more than 40,000 tota......etitors who present only one product at a time instead of the complete architecture. Taking aim at Hewlett Packard, he ... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco, HP, Juniper Drive Down Ethernet Prices

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 3 2011) Networking

...witch markets saw revenue declines despite a rise in the number of ports, say Dell’Oro and Canalys Cisco Systems is facing increasing pressure from Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks in an Ethernet switching market that saw revenue decline in the first quarter,......blic spending and seasonal softness, according to market research firms Canalys and Dell’Oro Group. Cisco, HP, Juniper Drive Down Ethernet Prices June 3, 2011 by Jeffrey Burt ... (Read Full Article)

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HP FlexNetwork Architecture Takes Aim At Cisco Dominance

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 10 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

...ogo Tweet The FlexNetwork architecture is designed to be an open standards-based competitor to what HP called Cisco’s proprietary products Hewlett-Packard is continuing to press Cisco Systems in the data centre networking space, rolling out a new architecture that officials said is designed... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco Opens Green Data Centre In Texas

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 19 2011) Cloud Computing

Cisco Systems is opening a new data centre that is going to take on multiple roles for the networking giant, from......virtualised and dynamic IT services cloud and to serve as backup sites for each other, according to Cisco officials. “We are using all the relevant Cisco technologies” in the facility, John Manville, vice president of IT at Cisco, said in an interview with eWEEK before the opening. Top data ... (Read Full Article)

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GE Completes Lineage Power Deal

Explore peHUB (Mar 2 2011) Cloud Computing

...iders, such as AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Verizon, and leading global OEMs, such as Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Huawei, Juniper Networks and Oracle. More information about Lineage hardware, software, services a... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Joins Crowded Market With Virtual Desktop Platform

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 26 2011)

...other companies are already far ahead of IBM in this sector, including such longtime competitors as Hewlett-Packard, VMware, Wyse, Oracle, and Cisco Systems. Oh, and don’t forget all those brazen newcomers that include Kaviza, nComputing, Wanova, eG Innova... (Read Full Article)

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Mellanox Acquires Voltaire in Networking Deal

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 29 2010) Networking

... Andrew Reichman. Mellanox is no doubt eager to gain from Voltaire’s partnerships with the likes of Hewlett-Packard, he said. + DailyFinance – Despite its strong technology, the stock price of Voltaire has been erra......he stock price of Voltaire has been erratic. Then again, the company has rivals like QLogic (QLGC), Cisco (CSCO), Juniper Networks (JNPR) and Brocade Communications Systems (BRCD). A merger with Mellanox s... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco Executive Joins Skype As CEO

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 5 2010)

Tony Bates will leave Cisco to become Skype's CEO, with a focus on increasing the number of the service's paying customers. Cisco Systems is losing another executive to a competitor, with Tony Bates leaving to become chief executive of v......pabilities. The company is expected to announce on 6 October a TelePresence solution for the home. Hewlett-Packard also reportedly plans to bring its video communications technology into the ... (Read Full Article)

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Leading EU Broadband Providers Commit to Energy Saving

Explore The New York Times (Sep 28 2010) Emissions , Networking

...om-Orange, OTE, Telefonica and Turk Telekom among others, have joined heavyweights such as Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Vodafone and Cisco in the voluntary plan to help cut carbon emissions. The new signees bring the number of companies p... (Read Full Article)

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HP Ousts Cisco Kit From Its Data Centres

Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 27 2010) Networking

...e routers and switches from its six data centres highlights the disintegrating relationship between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. HP's data centres are now 'Cisco Free' as Hewlett Packard continues to highlight the increasing bad blood between the two companies HP has announced that it has purged Cisco networking gear from all six of its data centers and is operating with only HP products. The announcement that HP has eliminated ... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Names Former Cisco Exec to Lead Networking

Explore The New York Times (Sep 23 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking , Storage

Dell has hired Cisco Systems veteran Dario Zamarian to lead its networking business, naming him as its first vice president dedi......ar, but the company has become more active in this area as it gears up to compete with the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Cisco in supplying all parts of a data center. The appointment of a vice president to lead networking may... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Hawks Its New Modular Data Center

Explore The New York Times (Aug 31 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...entually do the same with its modular data centers if demand is sufficient. Server makers including Hewlett-Packard, IBM and SGI also sell modular data centers, as does power equipment vendor Active Power. Collocati......ies try to build out private and public clouds while keeping capital and operational costs lower. HP has gone a step further, offering an entire, 24,000-square-foot modular data center that ca... (Read Full Article)

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HP Unveils Cloudstart to Speed Private Cloud Deployment

Explore The New York Times (Aug 30 2010) Cloud Computing

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled CloudStart, a package that includes hardware, software and consulting services, and ai...... IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers CloudStart is offered by HP Cloud Consulting Services and will use the company's Cloud Service Automation tools, which helps en... (Read Full Article)

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Brocade Readying 100G Ethernet for Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Aug 18 2010) Networking

...thernet, which some organizations with fast-growing performance requirements say they already need. Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks said even before the standard's ratification that they were trialing 100G bps ......ucts. In addition to selling its own equipment, Brocade makes gear that is resold by Dell and Hewlett-Packard. On Wednesday, it reported revenue of US$504 million for its fiscal third quarter ended July 31, up... (Read Full Article)

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Wipro's Rapid-Deploy Data Centers Target SME Market

Explore GreenBiz.com (Aug 16 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...data centers is the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. The data centers use hardware from Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi and EMC, among others. Modular and ready-made data centers are in high demand in recent we... (Read Full Article)

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One Year On: Cisco UCS Making Headway

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 3 2010)

When networking king Cisco Systems officially entered the full-service data centre systems market on 16 March, 2009, with the launch o......, 2009, with the launch of its Unified Computing System, it jumped into a pool of sharks named IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Plus, it took a major risk in opening a whole ne... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco to Soon Unveil Data Center Strategy

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jun 16 2010) Cloud Computing

Following months of speculation, network equipment provider Cisco Systems (www.cisco.com) announced on Monday it will unveil a week from today its new strategy to help customers build ......market, and in doing so, potentially steal some of the lucrative market share from competitors like Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Cisco to Soon Unveil Data Center Strategy Digg this! Tags: new products ibm cisco hp vmware hardware design By Justin Lee, March ... (Read Full Article)

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Brocade Takes On Cisco In Converged Data Centres

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 10 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking

Brocade entered into the converged data centre fray against Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks on 9 June with the introduction of Brocade One, a strategy designed to bring d......r as enterprises make the move to convergence, virtualisation and cloud computing. Brocade Takes On Cisco In Converged Data Centres Brocade has announced its converged data centre strategy, dubbed Brocade ... (Read Full Article)

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The Ash Economy How the volcano eruption exposed the vulnerability of the global supply chain.

Explore The Big Money (Apr 26 2010)

On Monday, April 19, the closing of Cisco Systems' $3.3 billion acquisition of Tandberg, a Norwegian teleconferencing company, served as a product de...... firms' equipment. As the ash cloud emanating from Iceland wreaked havoc on global business travel, Cisco's Telepresence service (think a very high-end Skype) boomed. Competitor Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) said that one client, a pharmaceutical firm, doubled the use of its videoconferencing service... (Read Full Article)

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