Wednesday, September 21, 2011
SAP acquires EDI specialist Crossgate The business-to-business networking provider will strengthen the ERP giant's portfolio. Crossgate's technology enables companies to fully network with trading partners via electronic data exchange
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Dell buys Force10 in data centre play Dell adds another element to its stack to sweeten its pitch to enterprise customers. But can it compete with Hewlett-Packard or Cisco?
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
D-Link celebrates 25 years with a refocus on consumers The international network product company celebrates 25 years of connecting computers by catering better to modern consumer needs and concerns
Monday, May 30, 2011
Networking chief Haas leaving HP The architect of the 3Com acquisition is moving to investment company KKR. Haas' departure caps a period of significant expansion for the HP Networking Division but also comes after several other management changes that took place in the wake of Leo Apotheker's arrival as CEO
Thursday, March 24, 2011
VANOC’s John Furlong on the IT road to the Olympics The president of the Vancouver Organizing Committee recounts the technology journey leading up to the Winter Games and how the absence of a “Get Out Of Jail” card set expectations. Also, a Cisco exec explains how the network is turning into “the platform”
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Cisco to buy change management maker Pari Company says Pari's appliances will complement its "smart service" capabilities to manage the health and stability of networks
Monday, January 24, 2011
Prepare your network now for the cloud, says analyst Without a cloud migration plan, operations expenditures will be higher than expected and opportunities will be squandered
Friday, January 21, 2011
Gartner slams Cisco's single-vendor network vision Research company goes after old debate by concluding IT can still significantly reduce costs and simplify the operations by having more than one equipment maker's products 
Friday, January 14, 2011
“Big” WLAN announcement coming soon, says HP exec There were no details, but the head of HP Networking promised a major move is coming. He also told Canadian reporters that arch-rival Cisco Systems is losing market share to HP
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Cisco brings Compact line out of the closet The network equipment maker is now ready to tout a line of switches for retail stores and offices aimed at saving cabling costs
Monday, January 10, 2011
Intel says Light Peak interconnect technology is ready The company said the technology will be based on copper wires as fiber optics are too expensive. It would transfer data at bandwidths starting at 10 gigabits per second over distances of up to 100 metres
Monday, January 03, 2011
Crossing the chasm to a next-generation firewall They are fast, intelligent firewalls and application-aware with VPN capabilities and can integrate with Active Directory for identity and policy management, so a new vocabulary is needed.
Monday, January 03, 2011
As network traffic surges, so does demand for storage With Web data, mobile data and video traffic growing at double digits, the pressure for IT to supply more storage continues. 
Monday, January 03, 2011
Take your Wi-Fi network to the next level 802.11n offers a great boost in wireless speed, which users will be quick to take advantage of. Design for capacity, not coverage, is one tip experts offer
Monday, January 03, 2011
Are you ready to flatten your data centre network? Jacking speeds up to 10 Gpbs isn't enough, say experts. You need to connect server racks and top-of-rack switches directly to the core network, obviating the need for an aggregation layer.
Friday, December 24, 2010
YEAR IN REVIEW: November 2010 This month saw Novell get bought by a relatively unknown tech firm from Seattle, Apple discontinuing its Xserve product line, and a slew of Toronto-based tech events. Plus, the Industry Minister gives an update on the Canada’s telecom foreign ownership rules
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Why a small insurance firm moved to fibre optic The DSL connection 'wasn't awful' -- it just wasn't good enough. But recently the price of fibre has come down enough for an increasing number of companies to switch 
Monday, December 20, 2010
Opinion: How WiFi fared in 2010 After finalizing the 802.11n standard in 2009, sales of WiFi devices took off this year. However, security related issues escalated at the same pace.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Is a next-generation firewall in your future? They have the muscle to perform intrusion prevention and the ability to enforce policies based on allowed identity-based application usage. Read why these consolidated security devices are expected to be increasingly important
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Juniper buys WLAN pioneer Trapeze Network equipment maker will finally add wireless local area network products to its lineup. Trapeze is the smallest of the independent WLAN makers, but had the advantage of being privately-owned
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
How to flatten a data centre network Juniper recently showed network managers how to shrink a network from three to two layers. An industry analyst says enterprises are increasingly embracing the strategy
Monday, November 15, 2010
Juniper looks to one up Cisco again in core Upcoming T4000 router will have 240Gbps per slot capacity, good for 4Tbps per half-rack chassis. 
Monday, November 15, 2010
Cisco expands into desktop virtualization To assure organizations that video and other rich media can work on virtualized desktops, Cisco will start selling thin clients and assure compatibility. 
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Cisco shares stung after quarterly report Shares of the sixth-largest U.S. technology company by market value plunged as much as 17 per cent, the biggest one-day drop in 16 years after it missed financial analysts' estimates
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Riverbed to boost cloud services Upcoming products will optimize traffic from cloud data centre providers and reduce the number of bytes it takes to store data in the cloud