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  • Best practices for benchmarking SAN performance

    Storage-area network complexity can mask what might seem to be relatively benign issues that have the potential to build up and cause an outage or brownout. To identify trouble early, you need to create a SAN performance benchmark, an essential first step to setting up metrics to gauge infrastructure performance.

    Written by Craig Foster21 Dec. 09 17:34
  • Extreme Networks to help enterprises migrate data centres

    Networking company Extreme Networks has come out with a plan to help enterprises migrate their data centres from a physical network, to a virtual network to location-independent cloud networks.

    Written by Zafar Anjum10 Dec. 09 10:41
  • 4 Cheap Options to Monitor Networks for Evidence

    Computer forensics don't have to solely focus on recovering and searching for evidence on storage devices. Although programs like Encase and FTK 3.0 are excellent tools to help find documents, photographs and other files for your investigation, they cut short on collecting network traffic your suspect sends and receives.

    Written by Brandon Gregg24 Nov. 09 05:54
  • HP to buy 3Com in $US2.7bn networking, data center bid

    Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy 3Com for about US$2.7 billion, pushing forward the giant IT vendor's strategy for combining computing, storage, services and networking under one roof.

    Written by Stephen Lawson12 Nov. 09 08:12
  • Cisco MARS shuts out new third-party security devices

    Cisco has finally publicly acknowledged it won't add support for new third-party devices to its security information and event monitoring appliance, ending months of speculation about the future of its Monitoring, Analysis and Response System. Some claim it's the beginning of the end for MARS as a multi-vendor SIEM device.

    Written by Ellen Messmer07 Nov. 09 06:56
  • Extreme Networks replaces CEO, lays off 70

    Ethernet switch vendor Extreme Networks is replacing its CEO and laying off 70 employees in an effort to quickly improve the company's bottom line and set it up to run profitably with lower revenues.

    Written by Tim Greene24 Oct. 09 11:05
  • Enterasys revamps high-end Ethernet switch line

    Enterasys this week is introducing a major upgrade to its Ethernet switch line in an effort to better serve converged networks, including those that are heavily virtualized. 

    Written by Jim Duffy19 Oct. 09 16:00
  • Alcatel claims new optical network speed

    Alcatel-Lucent researchers said they have figured out how to multiply the speed of the fastest undersea cables by a factor of 10, an achievement that someday could send the contents of 400 DVDs hurtling from Paris to Chicago in one second.

    Written by Stephen Lawson29 Sept. 09 06:50
  • Telstra, Catholic schools build $146m broadband network

    More than 1550 Catholic schools and Catholic education offices around Australia will be connected to Telstra’s network infrastructure following a two-year, $146 million broadband project announced today.

    Written by Rodney Gedda13 July 09 14:05
  • Study: IT skills pay drops slightly overall in Q1

    A new study shows that pay for IT skills fell by 0.5 percent overall during the first three months of this year, but also that some 46 skills rose in value.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus20 April 09 09:19
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