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Juniper enters BYOD management fray with new Gateway products

Juniper has unveiled new and enhanced products designed to secure mobile device access to enterprise networks.
Cisco considering incubating software-defined network internal startup

Cisco is reportedly considering incubating an internal startup chartered to develop the company's software-defined networking product line.
Dell PowerEdge 12G server takes aim at new HP Proliant Gen8

Dell took shots at rival HP and made a further effort to reposition itself beyond its roots as a PC manufacturer with the release of its 12th generation blade, rack and tower PowerEdge servers along with native 10 Gigabit Ethernet support across its servers, storage and networking products.
IBM and NEC team up to offer OpenFlow networking products

IBM and NEC have partnered to offer OpenFlow-based networking products to joint customers.
MRAM products replacing DRAM and NAND flash, say suppliers Everspin

A new form of nonvolatile MRAM memory with the promise to eventually replace DRAM is slowly making its way into products, but analysts said it could be a long time before DRAM technology is cast aside.
Facebook deceived consumers 'on numerous occasions'

Facebook has agreed to settle US Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers "on numerous occasions" by telling them they could keep their personal information private, then repeatedly sharing that information.
ViaSat UK rolls out secure military communications tech

Satellite communications vendor ViaSat UK has launched a range of high-capacity satellite-based products, designed for use by the UK military and government, following its acquisition of UK security specialist Stonewood last year.
Brocade debuts new VDX switches, network capacity on demand

Brocade has unveiled an infrastructure procurement model designed for cloud computing, along with additions to its new VDX data centre switch line.
Techworld Awards winners announced

Last night saw the hotly contested Techworld Awards take place in Dartmouth House in central London.
Open source network vendor Vyatta adds new security appliances

Open source networking player Vyatta this week refreshed its mid-range routing and security appliances with three new models aimed at small to mid-sized enterprises and branch offices.

Latest Features

Network virtualisation and next generation network architecture

As IT leaders try to get the best performance and efficiency out of their virtualised environments, they're realising the need for virtual networking, and often a whole new networking architecture that's designed for virtualisation from the ground up.
How the Cisco-HP split will benefit customers

Cisco Systems and HP probably won't force their mutual customers to take sides after the end of their partnership, though the vendors are deadly serious about competing against one another, analysts said.
Rivals offer switch alternatives to Cisco

Cisco have dominated the enterprise switching market for years. Can other vendors muscle in with better value products, or will Cisco's market clout hold off all-comers?
Salvaging IT equipment is good news

TechTurn?s CEO explains why the company has a changed name and strategy.
FCoE - or iSCSI?

A way of carrying Fibre Channel protocol directly over Ethernet could bring Ethernet economics to Fibre Channel SANs without bringing IP along too.
Free router software hits the spot

Vyatta's top execs insist you don't need to be a networking guru to put open-source routing to work.
Is encryption too hot to handle?

Without careful handling, encryption could end up being the next corporate document shredder.
Making Gig to 10Gig a seamless step

If 10Gig is to take off, it's got to get cheaper - and that means re-using all that fibre that's already installed for Gigabit trunking. If that works, could 10Gig also be the end of the line for copper networking?
WAFS - the need for speed

Is a wide area file system - WAFS - a storage or a networking product? Expand Networks says it's both.
Proxim's prospects for rebirth

Last week Proxim went bankrupt. Its new owner, Moseley, explains why the company has bright prospects.

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