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Published :08/19/2010
| Author :Jeremy Duke |
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Unless there are some undisclosed plans behind this acquisition, Synergy believes this deal will go down as one of the most puzzling acquisitions of any semiconductor, software, or networking company. |
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Published :05/21/2010
| Author :Ken Landoline |
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The recent economic downturn, coupled with the era of product commoditization in which we now do |
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Published :04/26/2010
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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In Monday’s live broadcast following the completion of the 3Com acquisition, HP’s Executive Vice President and General Manager, Dave Donatelli, and Marius Haas, Senior Vice President and General Manager, outlined HP’s plans to transform the networking industry. |
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Published :01/15/2010
| Author :Jeremy Duke |
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The current Q3 2009 report depicts a quarterly revenue stream of $981 million which represents a decent increase over Q2 with a 6.78% increase of the marketplace in sequential quarters. The slow economy had caught up to the previously healthy and growing collaborative applications industry as Q4 08 and Q1 09’s revenues slid. |
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Published :08/23/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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At a recent USENIX Security Symposium, the leader of (Google) Android security, Rich Cannings, said that “The smartphone OS will become a major security target.” Rich is correct: The number of smartphones is on the rise, and these devices are capable of holding lots of sensitive personal and business data. |
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Published :07/17/2009
| Author :Ken Landoline |
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This week in two distinct but likely coordinated strategic moves, IBM has made it clear that the small and medium business (SMB) marketplace is a significant and important target for its unified communications offerings... |
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Published :06/22/2009
| Author :Jeremy Duke |
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It’s not often the little guy gets the advantage, but in the case of managed services revenues, small businesses, which have been the “little guy” in the market, now have the edge. Worldwide, service providers are reporting decreases in all segments, on average, of -13.72% in their managed services revenues. But there is one segment that is the exception: small business managed services, which is proving to be the revenue gorilla in an otherwise depressed market. |
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Published :05/05/2009
| Author :Jeremy Duke |
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Service providers are faced with the dual pressures of providing more entertainment, information, cloud, and collaboration services while simultaneously keeping an eye on cost containment, CapEx, and OpEx. Additionally, they face operational constraints such as power consumption, cooling capabilities, utilization levels, the ability to provision, and the ability to ensure continuity and data center longevity due to the complexity of their networks. Most service providers have networks where each area of service delivery requires its own packet network, computing powers, video head-end, video head office content caching, and central office equipment. |
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Published :05/04/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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Some major players in the mobile industry released Q1-09 financials. |
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Published :04/27/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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Today Brocade announced that IBM will rebrand and sell Brocade’s enterprise IP networking portfolio, a move that will strengthen both Brocade and IBM as they compete for market share in the increasingly competitive data center infrastructure space. For Brocade, IBM provides an OEM channel for distribution of its existing and future IP networking switches . With IBM’s Q1 09 server revenues reaching an estimated $2.1 billion (Q1 09 IBM earnings presentation), the opportunity for Brocade is big. |
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Published :04/24/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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QLogic’s first announced win with HP for its 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Mezzanine card was a big one yesterday in that HP reports that its blade server revenue market share for Q4 08 was 54.8%. That provides QLogic a good headstart in providing a solution for HP customers who can now can now purchase QLogic’s 8 Gbps FC Mezzanine adapter for HP’s BladeSystem
c-Class servers, a key component of HP’s converged infrastructure platform for data centers known as Matrix. |
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Published :04/20/2009
| Author :Jeremy Duke |
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A sea change is occurring in the way managed security services are offered, following the consolidation of the industry in recent years. Some pure-play managed security service providers (MSSP) still operate thriving businesses, but now the big guys have entered the space, including network service providers and traditional security management players. |
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Published :04/17/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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While Brocade was the last major storage area networking vendor to announce its entrance into the Fibre Channel over Ethernet market last week, the announcement positioned its entry as a high performance end-to-end solutions provider for the data center. |
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Published :04/12/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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Most of us who are involved in the mobile industry spent last week absorbing and processing all of the activity and announcements emanating from the CTIA show in Las Vegas, which wrapped up on April 3rd. |
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Published :04/08/2009
| Author :Ken Landoline |
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After attending VoiceCon in Orlando this week one thing is more apparent than ever – telephony software is winning the battle of mindshare over hardware alternatives. While this has been true for a while, what is new is that current economic conditions are further fueling the case for software in terms of practicality at the knowledge worker desktop, more stringent return on investment analyses and distribution channel economics. One old idea and another brand new one make this case.
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Published :04/06/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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The CTIA 2009 spring event was one mobile industry show where mobile devices did not take center stage. Last week’s event was driven by two main themes: Mobile applications and LTE (long-term evolution). The big question is: Will carriers get a piece of the application action in the mobile world, or will they revert to being dumb pipes as they basically have with the internet? |
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Published :04/04/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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QLogic announced immediate availability of its 8100 Series PCI-Express converged network adapters. |
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Published :03/30/2009
| Author :John Armstrong |
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Last week’s announcement by Vodafone and Telefonica that they would share infrastructure in some European countries has been heralded as the beginning of a new era of mobile infrastructure sharing. |
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Published :03/30/2009
| Author :Katie Trippet |
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Worldwide SAN FC HBAs revenues dipped three percent in 2008 as revenues reached $834.9 million. |
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Published :03/24/2009
| Author :Jeremy Duke |
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Here is an interesting tale of my experience with two communication powerhouses, AT&T and Charter. Clearly, the investment in Customer Service technology made by organizations such as these can make all the difference between a happy customer and a lost customer. |
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