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Businesses need to look at security as a military operation
Businesses need to look at security as a military exercise and can benefit from strategies that have proved useful in battle, a former military security expert told an Interop audience this week. Read More

UPDATED: Hot products at Interop 2011
Extreme, A10 and F5 among those showing off new gear. Read More

Intel, partners push for cloud standards
Intel and its partners in the Open Data Center Alliance are working to extend cloud computing so the technology can overcome criticism from Internet guru Vinton Cerf and others. Read More

Interop: Cloud services take a beating in debate over security
Cloud services are not secure enough for businesses to use, or at least that was the conclusion drawn by attendees of an Interop debate, although all of the participants acknowledged the real answer was more subtle. Read More

Interop 2011: HP 8200 switch, a sad Startup Alley and too much cloud
I visited Start Up Alley, and was very disappointed to find there were only four companies there. I have always supported the startups at Interop, but I didn't see any that caught my interest this year. Read More


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Innovation smackdown: Meg Whitman vs. Eric Schmidt
Ebay's Meg Whitman looks to rebound from a loss in the California governor's race last year while pouring millions of her own money into the campaign. She remains a leader in the industry by taking the online auction site to new heights. She goes up against Eric Schmidt who as Buzzblog editor Paul McNamara put it, made the greatest career move ever when he left Novell for Google. Read More

Neat Net Stories from Vint Cerf and Dan Lynch at Interop
Interstellar networks. Padding Statements of Work in US DoD contracts to encourage the development of the Internet. Turning off the old protocols on the Internet, for a day, to encourage the adoption of the "new" TCP/IP protocols. The plan to use OSI layer 3 protocols (well, kinda) instead of IPv6. All these topics, and more, were part of an interesting pair of discussions at Interop yesterday. Read More

Cisco plans job cuts, drops growth target
Cisco Systems plans to eliminate jobs as it focuses in on core businesses such as routing and switching, the company's executives said on Wednesday after announcing an 11 percent decline in third-quarter profit. Read More

Extreme looks to one-up Cisco, others in data center
At Interop this week, Extreme Networks rolled out two switches designed to migrate users from legacy data center infrastructures into cloud computing environments. Read More

Juniper: Networks inhibit 'exponential' data center
Current networks inhibit large-scale data centers, which require new fabric architectures, a Juniper official said during his keynote address at the Interop conference today. Read More


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HP takes swipes at Cisco on Interop stage
It's not often HP and Cisco share the same stage during a keynote address. But today at Interop that's exactly what they did -- and HP didn't share the stage nicely. Read More

Akamai and Riverbed team to speed hybrid cloud performance
Riverbed and Akamai are teaming up to offer technology and services that promise to optimize WAN traffic more effectively when it travels between corporate data centers and cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) providers. Read More

What big wireless questions remain?
One of the technology tracks at this week's Interop conference and exhibition in Las Vegas will address the biggest trends and issues in wireless networking. Read More

Day 1 of Interop: Avaya, Cisco, Juniper and lots of technology chatter
It's Tuesday AM in Vegas and the official start of the 25th Interop trade show. I arrived yesterday, got some early meetings in, and I've already heard my share on industry banter. Here are some quick highlights. Read More

Cisco launches wireless LAN Flex controller
Cisco Tuesday unveiled a wireless LAN controller that allows centralized management of up to 500 branch office locations from one data center. Read More



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