Will Credit Crunch Hit Silicon Valley? (4)
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Updated: The San Francisco Bay Area is living, it seems, in a protective cocoon of its own, oblivious to the current credit crunch and fiscal crisis that has been roiling the rest of America. This morning, while there is talk of a bailout plan being finalized, it hasn’t stopped almost everyone from cab drivers to doctors from worrying about the jaw-dropping sequence of events that has unfolded over the past few weeks. I’ve been thinking ...
Look, Ma, No Hardware: Cisco's Virtual Switch (1)
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Cisco Betting Big on Buzzwords for Growth (1)
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Had I not been mired in preparing for our Mobilize 08 conference, which kicks off tomorrow, I would surely have attended Cisco’s analyst day, if only to find out how the company with some $40 billion in annual sales plans to keep growing in the face of a tighter global economy. What would have become immediately clear to me is that the company is betting on three buzzwords — video, collaboration and virtualization — to ...
FastSoft Tweaks TCP to Accelerate the Internet (12)
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Dr. Steven Low, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, has spent much of his life studying transmission communication control protocol (TCP), a technology that allows us to send emails, watch online videos and make Skype calls. TCP essentially makes the Internet (as we know it) work. Through his work, part of a larger effort at the university, it was concluded that TCP, which came into existence in 1981, needed to be replaced by ...
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Is this a possible partial solution to improve businesses struggling with bandwidth issues? I will research this further...
Kevin Johnson Joins Juniper as CEO (2)
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Is Kevin Johnson Good For Juniper? Yes, he brings a new perspective No. Selling Routers against Cisco isn't like selling Windows. I am going back to sleep Updated with details from the conference call after the jump: Juniper has officially announced that Kevin Johnson is going to the CEO, Scott Kirens is going to be chairman. [...]
Forget Microsoft, What’s Up at Juniper Networks? (3)
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The web is abuzz with the news of Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s Platform & Services division deciding to leave the company. A key lieutenant of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and one of the main forces behind Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo, his timing is curious, indicating that perhaps Microsoft is done dealing for Yahoo. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Johnson is headed to Juniper Networks, where is going to become the CEO. The ...
Big Growth for the Internet Ahead, Cisco Says (1)
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Cisco Systems, the San Jose, Calif.-based company that makes a living selling plumbing for the Internet (amongst other things), has come out with a prediction: Traffic on the world???s networks will increase (annually) 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every two years. As a result, there will be an annual bandwidth demand of approximately 522 exabytes2, or more than half a zettabyte. If these kinds of predictions remind you of the wild-and-wooly claims ...
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Cisco Systems has created a virtual switch that performs the functions of its networking hardware using software alone.Shared by olivia (0)Contribute comment
