Data Networking
Cisco drops ZTE after claims of sanction-busting Iran sales
Ruckus over reselling to the wrong people
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Only buy Huawei or ZTE if you like being SPIED ON - US politicos
Exhibitionists needn't listen to protectionists
Riverbed plunks ESXi hypervisor in Steelhead WAN optimizers
Gooses performance with flash, optimizes virty desktops
HP previews OpenFlow virty network controller
Tie those applications to the network with flexible pipes
A10 seduces app load balancing biz spurned by Cisco
Will networking giant bite back with an acquisition?
Indian gov ponders restrictions on Chinese networking gear
Lovely and cheap, but possibly communist and traitorous
Opinion
How to be a Puppet master: Make Amazon, VMware dance for YOU
Sysadmin blog Puppet, if you haven't heard of it, is automation software that takes on a role similar to Active Directory's group policy. Puppet can also handle application deployment, image deployment and anything else you can imagine that you would typically manage with scripts.
Cisco hits the roof in Olympics marketing dash
Cisco has thrown open its Olympics hospitality suite, giving partners and customers both a panoramic view of the Olympic Park and an up-close, 3D view of Stephen Fry loitering on a London Underground platform.
Exercises to keep your data centre on its toes
Given the size of networks today, networking should be open to promote interoperability, affordability and competition among suppliers to provide the best products.
News
'Intel made more virty cash than VMware'
VMworld 2012 And that's why Cisco won't fear Nicira, says VMware's top cloud man
Networking industry to collaborate on TERABIT Ethernet
Network traffic projected to increase tenfold by 2015
Make life easier on campus with a simpler LAN
Three layers into one will go
eBay fires up OpenStack cloud with Nicira network virt
Sitting next to a nervous VMware vCloud
Huawei looking into critical router flaw claims
Telecoms kit maker defends its incident response system
Speaking in Tech: VMware is building the Death Star
Podcast The Empire strikes back
Samsung swoops on Brit chip biz CSR, grabs talents'n'patents
Actual real technology, no web-2.0 rubbish here
Australian company claims world’s fastest switch
Traders the target, but 130ns latency has storage industry sniffing around
Cisco + OpenFlow + OpenStack = ONE software-defined network
Cisco Live 2012 Everybody is talking about OpenFlow, the "Quantum" networking abstraction project that is part of the OpenStack cloud controller, and software-defined networks in general. A lot of the talk has been about removing the hegemony of Cisco Systems in switching and routing. Now it is Cisco's turn to talk, the company's top brass declared at its annual customer event in San Diego.
Chambers: Cisco has bounced back
Cisco Live 2012 Cisco Systems is fired up, and if you are in one of its markets and one of its new adjacencies, the company is coming for your market share and more than its fair share of the profits.
Cisco predicts 1.3 zettabytes of annual data movements
Cisco has emitted its latest Visual Networking Index, a global study of how much data passes through the world's wires.
Spotlight
Sysadmin blog Deployment tool jumps onto the cloud train
Storage bods, your time is up
Not just 3D, but Fry-D™
Flatten the structure to stay nimble
Terabit speeds are round the corner
Always just over the horizon
Where do we begin...
Analysis El Reg drills into database giant's decision to go it alone
Episode 10 It's not a f*&%ing driver problem, mmm'kay?
When the bathplug pops out you'd best get hold of the baby