With the advent of compute virtualisation, it was necessary to extend the physical network from outside the host into the virtualised environment within the host. This is achieved with the…
Symantec now wears a Blue Coat
Symantec has completed it's purchase of Blue Coat Systems, announced a couple of months ago. Their press-release quotes the new CEO, Greg Clark (previously CEO of Blue Coat). “At a…
Brocade to create a Ruckus in the wireless space
Brocade is building diversity into its current business, moving further away from the SAN switching with which it made it's name. Today, Brocade completes their acquisition of Ruckus Wireless, giving…
Cisco buys OpenDNS
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…
Lenovo completes acquisition of Motorola from Google.
Lenovo issued a press-release yesterday to confirm that they have acquired Motorola Mobility from Google . Motorola Mobility was the handset business created when Motorola split in early 2011, before…
LinkedIn now available on IPv6
A blog post from the LinkedIn engineering page announces that they've permanently enabled IPv6 on their infrastructure. I am guessing they took a phased approach, with services migrated to IPv6…
Dell completes Force 10 networks acquisition
As noted in the previous post (Dell intends to acquire Force10 networks), Dell yesterday completed the acquisition of Force10networks. Dell Press Release on the completion of the Acquisition of Data…
Brocade has finally cast IP strategy with Foundry acquisition
Brocade has announced the completion of its acquisition of Foundry Networks. Foundry adds their BigIron switches and ServerIron load balancers to Brocade's existing SAN equipment. This has been a bit…