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…
IBM/Cisco Edge Analytics
IBM and Cisco are working together on the Internet of Things. Their latest collaboration is on the use of Edge Analytics. (IBM's announcement, on partnering with Cisco, and Cisco's covering…
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…
Aggregation continues? Brocade and Foundry
In another sign of the current state of the industry market place, we've just seen the announcement of the acquisition of network switch supplier Foundry by SAN switch supplier Brocade…
The value in taking both paths at once
Over time the use of multiple paths within the modern corporate network has increased. Using both paths of an active/backup pair adds bandwidth. We've gone through a whole series of…