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Symantec - Enterprise Security

Mon, 04/15/2013 - 05:00
Symantec described its strategy to streamline its business and kick-start growth at the moribund company through better integration and innovation in its Symantec 4.0 initiative, but the devil is in the execution details, which are still to come.
Categories: ICT

Brocade Begins to Deliver HyperEdge, but Lacks SDN

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 05:00
Brocade's HyperEdge aims to simplify management and add resiliency to wired and wireless networks. The company is starting to deliver products (announced in 2012) which bring it to parity with the competition.
Categories: ICT

Aruba Moves up the Stack to Unify NAC with Mobile Device and Application Management

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 05:00
Aruba added mobile application management to its year-old MDM solution to combine NAC, MDM and MAM in a single management system. Wait, isn’t Aruba a WLAN vendor?
Categories: ICT

In Securing Mobile Document Sharing, Preserve End Users’ Experience, but be Kind to IT, Too

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 05:00
Tablet use in the enterprise has given rise to the practice of storing sensitive documents in the public cloud. As enterprise IT begins to address this latest security threat, it’s important to keep it simple for both the end user and IT.
Categories: ICT

Averail, a Scrappy MCM Startup, Takes on the Big Dogs to Secure Mobile Content

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 05:00
Mobile content management startup Averail will take on MCM big dogs such as SAP with an offering that lets IT control and audit content in SharePoint, Dropbox and more while preserving the user experience. Now, can it get anyone’s attention?
Categories: ICT

Extreme Seeks Competitive Currency with Open Fabric Edge

Tue, 04/09/2013 - 05:00
Extreme’s Open Fabric Edge brings the company closer to parity with competitors, but lacking a broader portfolio suite keeps the company from controlling its own destiny.
Categories: ICT

OpenDaylight Project Has Great Promise If It Can Deliver; However, High Bar Creates Shadows

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 05:00
OpenDaylight, founded by 18 vendors, hopes to deliver open source SDN initially consisting of a controller, an overlay network and APIs. The software forms a common SDN base which can be enhanced. It is a promising start, but success isn’t a given.
Categories: ICT

IBM Opens Up Global Collaboration Market with New Data Center

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 05:00
With the launch of a new data center in Germany, IBM SmartCloud for Social Business can now more readily match both regional governance requirements and growing demands for a globally scalable, public SaaS collaboration portfolio.
Categories: ICT

Juniper Capitalizes on Programmable ASIC with New Core Switch

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 05:00
Juniper’s core switch, the EX9200, meets high capacity needs, but there’s no upgrade path from the EX8200 and the future of QFabric is uncertain. A virtualized WLAN controller and converged management points to a company adapting to market demands.
Categories: ICT

Huawei - Unified Communications and Contact Center

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 05:00
Huawei’s ambitious growth plans for its new Enterprise Business Unit continue to progress with strong market awareness and regional growth across much of the world. Distribution channel implementations appear to be the last potential roadblock.
Categories: ICT

Nuage Networks, an Alcatel-Lucent Venture, Provides Bridge to SDN from Existing Technology, At Scale

Wed, 04/03/2013 - 05:00
Nuage Networks, an Alcatel-Lucent venture, announced its SDN solution offering focused on open standards, massive scale, and multi-tenancy. However, dependence on service provider technology may limit enterprise penetration.
Categories: ICT

Without Standards Conformance, OpenFlow Fails to Deliver Interoperability

Wed, 04/03/2013 - 05:00
Critical to OpenFlow’s success is conformance testing and a logo program telling potential enterprise buyers that OpenFlow products interoperate with others. Without conformance testing, vendor products will become technology islands.
Categories: ICT

Aastra

Tue, 04/02/2013 - 05:00
Aastra, known for acquisitions in the communications space, now wants to be known for innovations. The company has made good headway in this, recently expanding its desktop video portfolio with room-based video conferencing solutions.
Categories: ICT

Alcatel-Lucent Mesh

Tue, 04/02/2013 - 05:00
Alcatel-Lucent’s corporate brethren may be restructuring, but Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise’s data center offering is still reaping wins with application aware networking as a message catching on in many other parts of the market.
Categories: ICT

Juniper Networks QFabric System

Tue, 04/02/2013 - 05:00
Juniper’s QFabric momentum has lost steam due in large part to the SDN conversations dominating the industry from all quarters. However, Juniper’s SDN vision factors heavily into the QFabric future and potential.
Categories: ICT

Cisco Nexus Switching Family

Mon, 04/01/2013 - 05:00
Cisco’s momentum continues with notable wins in all sectors and markets, as well as notable new product introductions including a more compact, high-performance chassis. Cisco has also shared a roadmap that enables SDN in future Nexus updates.
Categories: ICT

OFC/NFOEC 2013: Transport and Routing Roundup

Mon, 04/01/2013 - 05:00
The component vendors appeared to steal the show at OFC/NFOEC 2013 as they exhibited a rich 100G ecosystem and employed silicon photonics to shrink the despised 100G CFP module. Systems vendors also impressed with their skinny 1T super-channels.
Categories: ICT

Voice Biometrics – Economics/Security Advantages Driving Acceptance in Contact Centers

Fri, 03/29/2013 - 05:00
The use of voice biometrics for identification and verification in a customer care setting can shrink contact center costs while reducing fraud and enhancing customer satisfaction. Improved offerings make the timing right for market acceptance.
Categories: ICT

Arista Leads with Programmable API, OpenFlow Support and Integration Partners

Fri, 03/29/2013 - 05:00
Arista's SDN plans focus on integration capabilities, OpenFlow and OpenStack support, and a variety of integration partners, setting the bar for competitors to meet. Is it enough to pull the company from its niche?
Categories: ICT

Sandboxes and Silver Bullets: Vendors Promote New/Old Detection Techniques to Stop Zero-Day Threats

Fri, 03/29/2013 - 05:00
Following the herd mentality, anti-malware vendors of all stripes jumped on the sandboxing bandwagon at RSA, despite the fact that the technique is at least ten years old. So, what makes it more effective now?
Categories: ICT