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Dell’s Shopping Spree. Is Networking Next?
Could Dell be in the market to acquire a networking company in an effort to build its data center product line to compete with the likes of Cisco and HP? That may very well be the case. Dell’s global head of the Enterprise Architecture certification group recently told Channel Insider that Dell is planning to…
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Ruckus Brings Price Competition to 802.11n, Targeting Cisco, Aruba
Ruckus Wireless executives told Channel Insider that 802.11n sales made up only 25 percent of overall WiFi access point sales in 2009, and that may be due to two factors. First, some customers may have been waiting for the final ratification of the IETF 802.11n standard, which only happened in October 2009. But others may…
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HP ProCurve CTO Gazes Beyond the Cloud
HP ProCurve CTO Paul Congdon on enterprise networking in 2015 Post-cloud computing era will drive additional service opportunities for partners Channel partners can expect to have plenty more service opportunities as the cloud computing model continues to evolve, but by 2015 they should also have the ability to better compete with the large providers that…
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Cisco CEO: Video the Killer App, Cisco CRS-3 the Conduit
Cisco has developed a new carrier-grade routing system that it says will form the foundation of the future Internet, capable of delivering enormous quantities of data at very high speeds, enabling widespread delivery and use of high-quality video applications for businesses and consumers, among other functions. The networking giant announced the CRS-3 during a TelePresence…
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HP ProCurve Visionary Joins Brocade, Slams Cisco, HP Data Center Plans
Cisco and HP may be pushing their new monolithic architectures in the data center, but customers in that segment tend to “move in a much more cautious and judicious fashion,” according to John McHugh, the HP executive credited with building the ProCurve line into a billion dollar business. McHugh spoke to Channel Insider from his…