| Will Smart Grid power IPv6?
Could Smart Grid, the Obama Administration's effort to modernize the nation's electric grid, be the killer app for IPv6? That's what Internet engineers are asking as they see billions of dollars in stimulus funds pumped into smart electric meters, automated utility substations and new sensors networks. Cisco, EMC, and VMware… Acadia?
Here is something that will certainly cause reverberation in the market. Some of you may have already heard of "Alpine," the codename for Acadia. VMware, Cisco, and EMC just announced that they are joining forces and making significant investments to enable data centers to accelerate the value of virtualization by delivering products (Vblocks), services, and support as a unified team. Cisco lays out why it might let Tandberg go free
Cisco Systems may be laying the groundwork for dropping its US$3 billion offer for videoconferencing vendor Tandberg despite the emphasis it has placed on video as the future of communications. Cisco's Q1 expected to be "strong"
Investment firm UBS expects Cisco to report "strong" results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter on Nov. 4. UBS cites improved spending in US enterprise, strong federal government sales, and a "modestly improving" carrier capital spending environment. The Cisco Squeeze
Cisco has long had a unique competitive position in the enterprise market. In the glory days of the mainframe, IBM still competed with HDS and Amdahl, but Cisco has had the enterprise networking market to itself for years. This monopoly seems to be at its greatest risk ever -- ESG calls this market phenomenon the Cisco squeeze. Cisco data center chief discusses hottest topics
John McCool, Cisco's senior vice president and general manager for the Data Center Switching and Services Group, recently spent some time with Network World to discuss recent trends and market drivers in data center networking. John Chambers: Is America's best leader an investor's nightmare?
Cisco CEO John Chambers was recently named one of America's Best Leaders, today however, The New York Times in a scathing article (at least in my opinion), is questioning whether Cisco shareholders will ever see a return on their investment. New Security Features in Cisco IOS 15.0
Cisco's newly released ISR G2 routers come with a new update to their software features in IOS version 15.0. I will focus on describing some of the new security features that are found in the IOS 15.0 security feature set. Juniper reloads for battle with Cisco
Juniper this week stepped up its battle with Cisco on multiple fronts with a sweeping technology and partnership announcement in New York. The event was hosted by the New York Stock Exchange, Juniper's highest profile enterprise account for its high-performance networking thrust. Europe moving slow on IPv6 deployment
Few organizations across Europe have upgraded to IPv6, the new version of the Internet's addressing protocol, according to a survey commissioned by the European Commission. Tone-deaf Unisys official on why cloud computing rocks
Here's Richard Marcello of Unisys extolling one of what he sees as the virtues of cloud computing yesterday at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo in Santa Clara: "We were able to eliminate a whole bunch of actually U.S.-based jobs and kind of replace them with two folks out of India." Those actually U.S.-based jobs presumably were held by actual Americans trying to feed actual U.S.-based families. November giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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