From the monthly archives: February 2009

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches

By On February 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Organizing retail loyalty cards on cell phone application

By On February 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

In Japan, NTT Communications has begun trials of a high-tech alternative to plastic or paper loyalty cards that promises to simplify their use for consumers.
Why in Japan? Well, Loyalty cards are big business there and it’s almost impossible to spend a day shopping without being asked for one or, if you don’t have one, being offered one during shopping time. The NTT technology, is called “Gyazapo,” and  it’s a Java applet that can be used in phones that also include the Felica short-range [...]

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Cisco: How to use kron to automate tasks

By On February 27, 2009 · 1 Comment

Now and then everybody in IT network industry has to stay awake over the night to accomplish some tasks that cannot be performed during the work hours because will disturb regular activity. Some of this task usually need your presence in field (virtually or in place), to assure that everything is working fine and you don’t have any unwanted surprise the next day.Skipping this tasks, there are other ones with less impact in case of a failure, which I believe you rather prefer to do [...]

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AMD demos 6 cores Istanbul chips

By On February 27, 2009 · 2 Comments

AMD demonstrate it’s first working models of Istanbul chips, the company’s line of server processors with six cores.  The AMD blog says: “As a city, Istanbul is the only city that sits on two continents, Asia and Europe. As a processor, Istanbul also bridges two worlds, the socket 1207 that has been such a strong platform in the past, and a 6-core Direct Connect architecture, with 12, 24 or 48 cores per server for the future.
Despite putting more [...]

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WLAN product blitz shows 802.11n getting more affordable, useable

By On February 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

A slew of new WLAN hardware and software suggests that 802.11n high-throughput WLANs are fast becoming more affordable and manageable across all industry segments.

Enterasys debuted its first 802.11n access point and a new high-end WLAN controller for large-scale deployments, while D-Link has a new $180 11n AP aimed at small and midsize businesses. Meraki introduced its first 11n product for municipal and multi-tenant Wi-Fi hot zones.

On the software side, Motorola’s AirDefense unit has added a WLAN troubleshooting application to its flagship wireless [...]

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5 technologies that will change IT

By On February 25, 2009 · 1 Comment

Larry Quinlan, from Deloitte & Touche LLP, give a presentation about the 5 technologies that will change the IT industry in his opinion.

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Juniper’s answer to Cisco in the data center: Stratus Project

By On February 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Juniper said Tuesday it is partnering with server, storage and software companies to develop a converged data center fabric under a multiyear project that will compete with Cisco’s largely solo effort.

Juniper’s Stratus Project is a year old and comprises six elements: a data center manager, storage, compute, Layer 4-7 switching, appliances and networking. It is intended to be a flat, non-blocking, lossless fabric supporting tens of thousands of Gigabit Ethernet ports, an order of magnitude reduction in latency, no single point of [...]

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Check Point overhauls its security software architecture

By On February 24, 2009 · 1 Comment

 

Check Point is in the midst of a major overhaul of its security software architecture so customers can pick and choose the applications they want and dedicate computing resources to each depending on the performance they want to guarantee.

The company has taken the first step with the latest R70 version of its software that separates its various applications – firewall, VPN, Web filtering, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS) – into software blades that are available to customers a la carte [...]

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The difference between 3G and 4G

By On February 24, 2009 · 21 Comments

Excellent explanation about what is 3G and 4G, speed of the download  and different generation of wireless technologies by Craig Mathias.

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Play in Cisco EDGE QUEST 2 Tournament Featuring Cisco ASR 9000 Router

By On February 24, 2009 · 1 Comment

Chance to Win a USD $500 Gift Card and a new Cisco Wireless Audio Home System

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 23, 2009 – Cisco® today announced that you can now play in its tournament for EDGE QUEST 2, an online game featuring the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR), with opportunities to win prizes over a two-week period. The Cisco ASR 9000 is part of the Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture, beginning on February 23.

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