Virtual WAN Optimization – Blue Coat presentation

Calin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:54:49 +0000

Chris Webber from Blue Coat Systems describe the concept of virtualing WAN Optimization and WAN Acceleration systems. Of course that, since Blue Coat Systems is involved, you can consider this video presentation a little bit of marketing strategy, but if you think to this subject, all companies out there do the same. It’s somehow normal.

Skipping the marketing part, this is a good explanation about virtualized WAN Optimization and you can have an overall view of what this means and [...]

Datacenter in a box

Calin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:52:59 +0000

HP shrink the data centers with their new launched “box”. This “box” is a containerized data center which price starts at about 600.000$ without the inside equipment. How useful and how many customers will attract HP with this product we will see in the future, but for now if you have enough money to spend on such thing, you can have your own datacenter in your backyard.

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Does the Nexus 7000 Obsolete the Catalyst 6500?

Calin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:39:57 +0000

Well, this is one question that rise a lot of discussion regarding the future of Cisco Catalyst 6500. With the release in 2003 of Nexus 7000, many IT professionals are awaiting for Cisco to announce the end-life of 6500 series.

John McCool ((Cisco’s SVP and GM for both product lines) give assurance that the support and development for 6500 series will continue and the Nexus 7000 was not designed to replace the Catalyst 6500 line.

Watch below Jennifer Geisler’s interview with John McCool about this [...]

Sprint’s MiFi

Calin — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:50:44 +0000

You’re on the road and want to create a hot spot for you and coworkers, quick and without to much efforts. Well Sprint offers you this with their new launch MiFi device which combines 3G Wireless connection with a Wi-Fi router:

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Encryption and decryption half century ago

Calin — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:10:53 +0000

I know that it’s not the latest discovery in cryptography area, but still this device amazed me with it’s ingenious construction and way of utilization.

An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. The first Enigma was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. This model and its variants were used commercially from the early 1920s, and adopted by military and government services of several [...]

VMware launches vSphere

Calin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:19:15 +0000

VMware vSphere is the next evolutionary step in IT computing; enabling customers to bring the power of cloud computing to their IT infrastructures. Building on the power of VMware® Infrastructure, VMware vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs, and increases control over IT infrastructures while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS, application and hardware.

Build on a proven virtualization platform to provide the foundation for internal and external clouds, using federation and standards to bridge cloud infrastructures—creating a secure private cloud. Organizations of all [...]

Cisco’s UCS: A closer look

Calin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:10:19 +0000

Cisco is claiming its new Unified Computing architecture will save IT departments 20% cheaper on their hardware costs and 30% on IT running costs, compared with traditional systems.Launched on Monday, March 16, the Unified Computing System unites computing, network, storage access, and visualization resources in a single energy efficient system, the company said. This puts it into direct competition with IBM, HP and other hardware vendors for the first time.

According to Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, this are the pluses [...]

World’s largest cell phone

Calin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:54:35 +0000

The world’s largest working cell phone has be unveiled in Chicago. Not only can those in the area venture out to see the massive cell phone unveiled for its record-setting attempt, but it actually works and you can make free phone calls and send free text messages.

The device is a replica of the Samsung Messager phone. The phone measures 15 feet wide by 13 feet tall and it broke a Guinness World Record.

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Microsoft TechFest: The low power data center

Calin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:52:49 +0000

Racks of servers demonstrated prototypes of low-power processors for data centers that deliver one-third to half the performance of high-performance processors while consuming only 5 percent to 10 percent as much power. So, how much power can data center save?

“In addition to requiring far less energy – 5 watts versus 50 to 100 watts for a processor typically used in a data center- low-power processors also have quiescent states that consume little energy and can be awakened quickly,” explained Dan Reed, director of Scalable [...]

Organizing retail loyalty cards on cell phone application

Calin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:56:52 +0000

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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