OpenDNS has been acquired by Cisco . The innovative company that provided a managed DNS service under the guise of security becomes part of the networking giant. The OpenDNS team…
Avago to buy Broadcom for $37bn
Avago Technologies is going to spend $37bn in acquiring rival Broadcom . This makes it the largest ship technology merger to date. Avago which initially was part of HP's test…
Ipanema Technologies acquired by InfoVista
Yesterday Ipanema Technologies was acquired by InfoVista, with an announcement in this press release. Given that InfoVista doesn't have an Application Performance Guarantee solution in its portfolio, it's unlikely that…
Shutdown or startup ESXi Virtual Machines from the Host Command Line
Sometimes you need to be able to shutdown or startup virtual machines when all you have is a command-line prompt on the server itself. So how do we achieve this…
IBM partners for Weather Company datastream
You might think that the weather is important. Certainly, here in the UK, I do, every time I step outside the office. But did you know that ice-cream manufacturers need…
RFC7514: Really Explicit Congestion Notification
The challenges of bufferbloat remain within the networks, and previous efforts to provide indications of full buffers and to manage flow rates have not lead to their intended outcomes. A…
RFC7511: Scenic Routing for IPv6
An RFC has been published today to cover alternatives to IPv6 routing options. In times of Green IT, a lot of effort is put into reducing the energy consumption of…
Bain Capital to take Blue Coat from Thoma Bravo
Venture investment company Bain Capital are taking Thoma Bravo's Blue Coat. The deal to acquire BlueCoat is for $2.4bn cash, and will close in first half 2015. Bain is preparing…