The Register are reporting that F-Secure has brought Inverse Path. This acquisition will help protect the automotive, avionics and industrial control space, as well as boosting F-Secure's security consultancy business,…
Cisco buys AppDynamics
AppDynamics provide an application performance monitoring platform, using tools to monitor application transactions and store this data in the cloud for analysis. By utilising the AppDynamics API within the program,…
What are the choices for SD-WAN currently?
There is a lot of hype over SD-WAN at the moment, with movements by telcos and OEM suppliers investing in some of the new startups. And folks that have been…
HP Inks $1.05bn deal for Samsung’s printer business
HP Inc (the printer and consumer business) has announced a deal to acquire Samsung's printer business. (HP Acquires Samsung Printer Business) HP is looking to disrupt the $55bn copier industry…
The Register: 40 years ago Vikings plundered Mars
An anniversary is marked by The Register, that of the NASA Viking missions to Mars, the first of which landed on July 20, 1976. And since I can just about…
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…
Three Bottlenecks of WAN – Bandwidth, Latency and Cost
There are three bottlenecks to Wide Area Networks (WANs) that don't exist in other environments, and these are Bandwidth, Latency and Cost. (And in true three pronged problem fashion, you…
RIP: Gerry Anderson, future visionary
When I was much younger than I am now, I would be glued to the television at a friend's house watching re-runs of UFO on a Saturday morning. The young…