Data centre networking

National Fibre Strategies

Arthur D Little assess five strategic models for deploying national fibre optic telecommunications networks that have been implemented by countries around the globe. Continue Reading

Users’ top datacentre pain points

Storage, network bandwidth, cost and scalability are among the biggest datacentre concerns, say users at Dell Enterprise Forum US Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

WAN Speak Musings – Volume I

Analysts Clive Longbottom and Bob Tarzey discuss all things network related in this series of 12 short business focused articles. Continue Reading

Two approaches to WAN optimisation

The two main barriers to WAN optimisation are cost and complexity. We look at low-cost, simple to configure alternatives Continue Reading

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• Steve Broadhead, Broadband Testing

Mott MacDonald rolls out unified communications

Global engineering firm Mott MacDonald signs Tata Communications for a five-year unified communications deal worth over $20m Continue Reading

Vendors form OpenDaylight Project for SDN

Networking industry's big names form OpenDaylight Project - an open source framework for SDN - under Linux Foundation’s umbrella Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

100Gbps Ethernet – is it time to move?

Do you need 100Gbps Ethernet in your datacentre, or is the technology just going through a hype cycle? Computer Weekly investigates. Continue Reading

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• Manek Dubash

Flying easyJet in the cloud

It’s been a few months since the European Commission announced its new strategy for unleashing the potential of cloud computing in Europe. So how are we doing? In this issue of CW Europe we explore how to best exploit the benefits of the cloud in Europe. Specifically examining how easyJet aligned the cloud with its business. Continue Reading

The history of OpenFlow

Computer Weekly takes a look back at the beginnings of the software-defined networking protocol and the technology behind it Continue Reading

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• Steve Evans

IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along

UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland

Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Computer Weekly User Awards

The deadline for the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Networking has been extended to 8th February. Get the recognition you deserve! Continue Reading

Why Cisco chooses acquisition over R&D

As networking giant Cisco buys its ninth company in less than a year, Computer Weekly asks, why the focus on acquisitions? Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Cisco profits jump 18% thanks to datacentre strategy

Cisco reports an 18% rise in profits, hitting $2.1bn for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2013, on the back of its integrated datacentre systems Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Analytics: The real-world use of big data

This study from IBM and the Said School of Business reveals how businesses are exploiting Big Data and the challenges they face. Continue Reading

Need for increased network bandwidth is IT's biggest datacentre pain-point

A majority of IT executives have said that a growing demand for increased network bandwidth is one of the most critical issues facing their datacentres Continue Reading

Tesco signs £65m datacentre deal to drive online expansion

Tesco expects to cut several millions each year from its IT bill following a 15-year £65m datacentre deal with Sentrum Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Why organizations are turning to hybrid data centre fabrics with Fibre Channel

This month's issue of IT in Europe focuses on two of today's key aspects of data center management: energy efficiency and storage networking. Read now to learn why PUE can be an inefficient measurement factor. We also explore the changing relationship between front-end and backend networks which is leading some organizations to hybrid data centre fabrics, often with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as a key component. Read why experts believe Fibre Channel will continue to remain the network of choice in today's data centers. Continue Reading

Enterprise network kit continues to boom in recession

New research from IDC shows revenues for both Ethernet switches and routers are growing regardless of the economic climate Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

The Olympics in technology stats

Computer Weekly takes a look at how we experienced “the most connected Games ever” with our round-up of key technology stats Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

CSC wins deal to transform datacentres for engineer firm Alstom

Engineering company Alstom has outsourced the transformation of its datacentres to systems integrator CSC in a five-year contract Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Special Report on Cisco

This special seven-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Cisco, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. Continue Reading

Tiers for Fears: an holistic approach to managing datacentres

Analyst group, Quocirca, explains the importance of a holistic approach between a data centre facility and datacentre equipment and assesses the benefits of external data centre services. Continue Reading

Thetrainline.com: Datacentre Transformation

Josko Grljevic, IS Director of thetrainline.com, explains how he cut its IT costs dramatically by virtualising its data centre and moving IT services into the cloud. Continue Reading

Domino’s Pizza: Datacentre Transformation

Colin Rees, IT Director at Domino’s Pizza explains how a project to move the company data centre into the cloud has transformed its online business. Continue Reading

Forrester: Datacentre Transformation

John Rakowski, advisor and analyst at Forrester, offers five tips on optimising and managing company datacentres. Continue Reading

Cisco UCS blade servers integrate Fusion-io PCIe flash cards

Cisco UCS signs an OEM deal with Fusion-io to incorporate PCIe flash cards directly into Cisco servers Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Cisco updates ASR 5500 series for 4G networks

Cisco's updated ASR 5500 series aims to help businesses with increasing mobile traffic moving across networks as 4G looms Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Cambridgeshire launches PSN to cut £1m per year

Cambridgeshire County Council will save £1m per year with the launch of its public services network (PSN) Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Vblocks revenues on track to hit $3bn in 2013

The tie-up between Cisco, EMC and VMware is ramping up revenues from its datacentre-in-a-box product Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

European economy dents Cisco forecast

The stormy outlook for the European economy leads the networking firm to predict a weak quarter Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Swift builds underground datacentre to keep bank transactions in Europe

Swift is building an underground datacentre to make it possible to fully process European bank transactions in Europe Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

How to make your network green

Make sure your network and datacentre run efficiently as part of a green networking strategy Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

WAN optimisation: improving the performance of business applications

How can WAN optimisation support IT consumerisation and cloud computing? Continue Reading

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• Antony Savvas

Deploying a Virtual Datacentre on Claranet

Claranet has updated its traditional hosting service with a cloud-based virtual datacentre based on Dell Compute, VMware and Cisco. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

UK networkers look to wireless networks and IP telephony for 2012

Wireless networks and IP telephony are set to be the most common networking initiatives implemented by UK users in 2012, according to TechTarget’s 2012 IT Priorities Survey Continue Reading

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• Joe Fernandez, News Editor

Everything Everywhere spends £1.5bn on network expansion: News briefs

SearchNetworkingUK briefs provide a summary of the week’s new product, services and appointment announcements. This week is filled with signs of network expansion. Continue Reading

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• Joe Fernandez, News Editor

Network reliability to win over innovation in 2012, says Cisco survey

Cisco’s first TechWatch 2012 report finds network reliability as opposed to innovation or performance is the most important factor for network architects in the new year ahead. Continue Reading

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• Joe Fernandez, News Editor

The realities of virtualised data centres

The IT in Europe virtual data centre e-zine covers the effects of virtualisation on data centres, including management headaches. Discover the challenges posed by an ever-increasing number of virtual resources and access three case studies from the Best of VMworld Europe 2011 User Awards. Continue Reading

Are network performance monitoring tools ready to meet new challenges?

Network performance monitoring tools must adapt to handle virtual infrastructure, new applications and hybrid cloud environments. Are they ready? Continue Reading

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• Tracey Caldwell, Contributor

vSwitch best practices: Know what powers your virtualised network

Virtual switches in a virtualised network offer high agility, yet potential management and design issues as well. These vSwitch best practices explore those problems and solutions. Continue Reading

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• Rachel Shuster, TechTarget

Using network management and monitoring systems across IT and buildings

Bolton College linked its buildings facilities to the campus network and is using a network monitoring and management system that sees both buildings and IT resources. Continue Reading

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• Tracey Caldwell, Contributor

For cloud automation, think flat networks and Ethernet fabric

For cloud automation, vendors are preaching flat cloud networks based on Ethernet fabrics and open network software that enable engineers to build in cloud management tools. Continue Reading

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• Bryan Betts, Contributor

Copper-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet is arriving, but not on 10GBase-T

Forget the predictions that copper-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet would run on 10Gbase-T. Copper-based Ethernet is here, but SFP Direct Attach maybe the cabling of choice. Continue Reading

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• Bryan Betts, Freeform Dynamics

High performance networking: How NYSE Euronext trimmed latency

In financial trading even a microsecond of latency can lose a deal, so NYSE Euronext worked with Force10 Networks to build high-performance networking with collapsed tiers and super-speed Ethernet to avoid any loss. Continue Reading

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• Bryan Betts, Contributor

Networking tutorials

SearchNetworking.co.UK's tutorials provide in-depth resources on networking, mobile, and telecommunications technology and strategy in the UK. Core coverage areas include network design and administration, data centre networking, mobile enterprise planning, WAN design and implementation and UK telecommunications networks and services. Continue Reading

What storage and network convergence really means

This edition of Storage Europe will investigate how users are addressing storage and network convergence in the field, and what their outlook is for the future. Continue Reading

Intel introduces OpenFCoE, offers cheap fibre channel over Ethernet on-ramp

Intel has introduced a new, cheap, way to connect servers to Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) networks, and taken a dig at other FCoE rivals along the way. But the release may not save users the real cost of a new FCoE network. Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood with Allison Ehrhart

Brocade gets into the HBA business

Analysts predict the move will result in price improvements for users and suppliers, and reduce the number of SAN vendors involved in a deployment. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Federal Government cancels OPEL contract

The Federal Government has cancelled the OPEL contract for delivery of wireless broadband to regional areas Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood

Communications Alliance: Recruitment and training integral to NBN’s success

The CEO of the Communications Alliance, Anne Hurley, argues that the National Broadband Network cannot succeed without skilled people to build and operate the new infrastructure. Continue Reading

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• Anne Hurley

IBM sells Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) gear from Brocade, Cisco

IBM steps up its Fibre Channel over Ethernet strategy by selling Brocade 8000 FCoE switches and 1010/1020 converged network adapters, and Cisco Systems' Nexus 5000 FCoE switches. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

Virtual machines present dynamic environment issues for network pros

Virtualisation can mean network managers need to develop an infrastructure for redirecting IP addresses across a WAN. Continue Reading

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• George Lawton

Telepresence reaches down to smaller businesses

Telepresence suites are emerging for smaller businesses, as vendors saturate the big end of town. Continue Reading

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• Rivka Gewirtz Little

Introduction to firewalls

What is a network firewall? What types of firewalls are there, and which kind best protects your company's data? All of these questions, and more, are answered in our network security firewall guide. Continue Reading

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• SearchNetworking.com.au staff

What is a logical network? How do you improve one?

Learn what logical and physical networks are and how to improve them, in this expert response with networking fundamentals expert, Chris Partsenidis. Continue Reading

Understanding remote scripting: Managing Windows networks using scripts, Part 9

Our series on managing Windows networks using scripts continues. Continue Reading

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• Mitch Tulloch

Troubleshooting IP Routing -- 'CCNA Official Exam Certification Library, 3rd Edition,' Chapter 7

This eBook chapter examines troubleshooting the IP routing process. Read more to learn if your IP routing troubleshooting is up to scratch! Continue Reading

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• SearchNetworking.com.au

EDITORIAL: It's time for a Net Neutrality debate

Australia should sort out its position on Net Neutrality before the National Broadband Network is built, not afterwards, writes TechTarget ANZ Editor Simon Sharwood. Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood

Recovering domain controllers after a server disk failure

When recovering domain controllers after a system volume failure, normal restoration doesn't always work. Learn some special procedures in this tip. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

DNS monitoring: If it's slow, everything is slow

Techniques for monitoring DNS performance, and the impact on applications when it is not performing properly, are explored in this tip. Continue Reading

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• Mike Pennacchi

Application delivery controllers: Moving toward the application-centric network

Application delivery controllers (ADCs) have evolved from server load balancers (SLBs) to deal with growth of networked application delivery. Continue Reading

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• Robin Layland, Layland Consulting

Green networking: Energy efficient upgrades can cut costs

Using green networking products, like more efficient gigabit Ethernet switches, to replace aging networking equipment can cut runaway energy costs. Continue Reading

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• Michael Morisy, TechTarget

8Gb/sec Fibre Channel widens lane for SAN traffic

Faster Fibre Channel is upon us ... but do we need it just yet? Continue Reading

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• Jerome Wendt

Server power consumption rises unabated

A new AMD-sponsored study paints a grim picture of worldwide data centre power use, but there are simple ways to decrease consumption. Continue Reading

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• Bridget Botelho, Editorial Director, News

Making the case for FCIP and FCoE

FC over IP and FC over Ethernet let companies begin consolidating on one network platform as opposed to maintaining separate FC and Ethernet networks. Continue Reading

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• Jerome Wendt
• Joshua Konkle, DCIG Inc.

IMS Report Card: IMS Forum issues first IMS reality check

The first IMS Report Card from the IMS Forum offers a reality check on the hype and myths surrounding IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployment. Continue Reading

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• TechTarget ANZ staff

More ICT scholarships inbound

Scholarships for the IT industry totalling a value of $250,000 will be available at the beginning of the coming academic year, it was announced last week. Continue Reading

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• Voice&Data Staff

Configuring VLANs

Learn how to configure a virtual LAN (VLAN) in this step-by-step, automated, 15-minute demo. Continue Reading

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• SearchNetworking ANZ Staff

Broaden broadband debate: Comms Alliance

The Communications Alliance has joined the chorus of voices calling for election candidates to broaden the scope of their broadband plans. Continue Reading

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• Voice&Data Staff

Network design: Five ways to lower your costs

Learn how to lower network operating costs without sacrificing utility in this tip on designing a low-cost network. Continue Reading

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• Tom Lancaster

Happy Birthday to TechTarget ANZ

It's our birthday, so gift us with your presence and join us in recollection of our most read articles of recent times. Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) lags mobile application delivery

IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) was supposed to provide convergence between fixed and mobile services, but new mobile applications have bypassed it. Continue Reading

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• Tom Nolle, Andover Intel

Nokia to acquire mobile advertiser

Nokia has announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire mobile advertising and marketing company Enpocket for an undisclosed amount. Continue Reading

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• Voice&Data Staff

Fibre-optic networks: Access network design

Fibre-optic technology in access networks is expanding due to the demand for broadband. Learn about FTTX and passive optical networking (PON) systems. Continue Reading

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• Tom Nolle, Andover Intel

IPv6 from 'CCNA Portable Command Guide', Chapter 25

IPv6, 'CCNA Portable Command Guide,' Chapter 25, explains IPv6 address assignment, static routes in IPv6, IPv6 ping, IPv6 tunnels and RIPng. Learn all you need to know to pass the IPv6 questions on your Cisco Certified Network Associate exam. Continue Reading

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• Scott Empson

IP address depletion hastens IPv6 adoption

IPv4 IP address depletion is hastening the need to switch from IPv4 to IPv6. In this column, Loki Jorgenson explains where we are now in terms of IPv6 readiness and provides some insight on how much work network operators will face. Continue Reading

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• Loki Jorgenson

Windows Vista, IPv6 lead to network performance problems

Windows Vista, which runs on parallel IPv6 and IPv4 protocol stacks, can create network performance problems when used with older routers. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet: Technology overview

This overview of Gigabit Ethernet and 10G lays the foundation for understanding Gigabit Ethernet technology and the advantages it brings to your network. Continue Reading

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• SearchNetworking ANZ Staf

It's cool to think about heat

If you're not thinking about power and cooling, you're behind the curve. Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood

Network waste to reach $100 billion

Network overspending will cost enterprises more than $100 billion over the next five years, according to recent predictions by Gartner Inc. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey

OSI: Securing the Stack, Layer 8 -- Social engineering and security policy

Network security is essential at every layer of the OSI model, including the mythical eighth layer, where users interact with technology. Since hackers can use social engineering to exploit people, it is important to train your users and implement good security policy. Continue Reading

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• Michael Gregg, Superior Solutions, Inc.

News Wrap 2.0

TechTarget ANZ's slightly skewed look at this weeks news. Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood

Network security, content security markets to grow in 2007

The network security appliance and software markets are expected to continue growing steadily in 2007, while content security sales will begin to affect most enterprises' networking budgets. Continue Reading

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• Kate Dostart

Network summarization -- Supernetting and wildcard masks

Supernetting allows one routing table entry to represent an aggregation of networks. Network engineers need to understand supernetting, how to read routes received from other providers and how to create an access list that references these multiple networks in a single summarized statement. In this tip, you'll learn more about the IP addressing-related topics of network summarization, supernetting and wildcard masks. Continue Reading

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• David Davis

New gigabit standard: How fast is fast enough?

Last June, the 10GBASE-T standard was published promising 10 Gbit operations on copper cabling. This standard was originally targeted toward data centers, but the Ethernet Alliance and IEEE are working on increasing this standard to potentially 40 or 100 more gigabits -- so what speed is fast enough? Continue Reading

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• TechTarget Staff

News Wrap 2.0

We've just discovered a great new application for technology that can save you an incredible amount of time, money and heartache. Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood

Managed VoIP -- 10 tips for a smooth migration

Migrating to managed VoIP doesn't have to be a headache. Here, Verizon Business offers 10 top tips to ensure you get what you need. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey

ProCurve rolls out three new switch series

ProCurve Networking by HP has added three new series of switches to its lineup. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey

Wireless security push fueled by paranoia

Wireless security became a necessity for Intermagnetics, but when the company used its access points to monitor the spectrum, performance suffered. Continue Reading

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• Andrew R. Hickey