| Avaya's Aura a Cisco killer?
The ability for organizations to communicate in multi-vendor, multi-site environments with ease and flexibility is essential. The direction of the convergence marketplace has proven that solutions designed around proprietary and single-system solutions are quickly becoming extinct. In late March, Avaya launched a new communications architecture strategy named Avaya Aura. Available globally by the end of this May, Avaya's forward-thinking strategy combines "voice, video, messaging, presence, Web applications and more to employees anywhere". Microsoft "Geneva" could be genius but skeptics abound
Microsoft late Monday announced the second beta of its cloud identity management suite of servers, code-named Geneva. The Geneva platform is comprised of three components. The Internet Sky Is Not Falling
Last week our esteemed colleague from Nemertes Research Johna Till Johnson wrote that the Internet is in deep peril because: "IP itself is nearing end-of-life, with no ready alternative." To prevent what she describes as a looming crisis, Johna champions a radical new Internet architecture. Just as the sky did not fall on Chicken Little, the Internet sky is not about to fall on us. Some very, very, very large data warehouses
In the course of my research, I'm running across some VERY large data warehouses. Several of them, especially in the web log/network event area, are in the multi-petabyte range. Perhaps most surprisingly, they're run on a broad range of data management software -- not just Teradata, but also Greenplum, Hadoop/Hive (which isn't even a DBMS!), Greenplum, and others. My current golly-gee-that's-really-big list goes something like this. PoE without the PoE switch
If you have lots of Ethernet switches that you want to convert to PoE switches, the place to turn may be a midspan. Start-up Arista offers copper 10G data center switches
Arista Networks today announced 10GBASE-T switches in a 1RU form factor, and could be first to market with a 48-port version. The network is dead, long live the network
The Las Vegas Interop conference is upon us once again. At one time, Interop was all about networking, and the conference would devote multiple tracks to network technologies such as ATM. At this year's conference, there are tracks on a wide range of topics, including Enterprise 2.0, Green IT, cloud computing and virtualization. Aruba unveils low-priced WLAN gear
Aruba offers 'one-button' provisioning, remote administration simplifies management. Google sells Chrome the old-fashioned way--on TV
Google's Chrome browser may be fast and offer some neat new features, but it's still only running a distant fourth in the browser wars. So what does the world's largest purveyor of online ads decide to do? Google's blanketing the TV airwaves with commercials pushing Chrome. Poster on Chinese forum leaks next-gen iPhone specs
As evidenced by the non-sensical Twitter rumor last week, it's easy to get caught up in the Apple rumor mill, but this one is too juicy to pass up. A forum poster on a Chinese Apple website recently published what appear to be the specs for Apple's upcoming iPhone model. If accurate, the next iPhone model should be a lot snappier. Cisco unveils cloud computing platform for service providers
Cisco this week is expected to unveil a platform for service providers that's designed to serve as a foundation for delivering cloud computing services. TechEd news summary: Windows 7, WS2008R2
Microsoft: Corporate Vista testers should switch to Win 7 RC Microsoft said it will continue at least until January 2011 selling Vista to computer makers, system builders, volume licensees and consumers, the company said. However, users testing Vista should abandon that effort for the Windows 7 RC candidate. | 
From 3Mbps over shared coax to 40/100Gbps over fiber…and beyond.
iPhone enthusiasts from around the Web offer their visions for the next-gen iPhone.
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