While better known for its PCs and servers, Dell has been morphing into more of a full-line IT vendor with storage, appliances and software capabilities, so it should come as no surprise that the company is flexing its networking muscles at this week’s Interop. The latest additions to its PowerConnect lineup include the M8024-k Ethernet switch, W-Series wireless solutions and B-Series switch solutions.
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Dell Stretches Its Networking Reach
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Opengear Launches Smart ACM5000 And IM4200 Cellular Routers And Console Servers At Interop Las Vegas 2011
Opengear, a leading provider of next generation console server and remote management solutions, today announced the launch of its Smart ACM5000 and Smart IM4200 line of products at Interop Las Vegas 2011. Opengear products will be demonstrated at Interop in Opengear booth 2271 and will be featured in InteropNet, Interop’s specialized cutting edge network, as well as in the much talked about OpenFlow Lab.
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This Mother’s Day Give Tech Support Instead of Chocolate
Mother’s Day is this Sunday, which means that flower shops will be busy, Hallmark stock should be up, and you can expect long lines at brunches as children of all ages try to figure out some meaningful way to thank Moms for all they do, and all they mean to us. This Mother’s Day, maybe you can get your mom a clue so she can get more use out of her PC and maybe video chat with the grandkids every once in awhile.
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Day 7: Google Docs ‘Fidelity’ Leaves Something to Be Desired
30 Days With…Google Docs: Day 7
Today’s installment of 30 Days With…Google Docs will focus on ‘fidelity’–specifically how well Google Docs maintains fidelity with Microsoft Office when working with converted files.
Google Docs and the suite of online tools available from Google may be an adequate replacement for Microsoft Office for some organizations, but the world still revolves around Microsoft Office and much of the value of Google Docs is connected with how well it can create, view, and modify documents in the common Microsoft Office file formats.
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Gigamon Introduces New Data Access Switch For High-Density Uses
Gigamon, a maker of appliances that analyze packet flow on data networks, has introduced a new data access switch that intelligently directs specific types of data to the appropriate data analysis tool. The GigaVUE-HD8 will be demonstrated at the Interop technology conference that begins May 8 in Las Vegas.
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NetScout Improves Network And Application Analysis And Monitoring
Building on the real-time data mining capabilities of the Adaptive Session Intelligence (ASI) technology that it announced in November of last year, NetScout Systems Inc. is announcing nGenius Enterprise Intelligence, the first module built on the technology, which is intended to provide service-level analysis on an end-to-end session basis of network communication. The software has three major functions: Prediction, triage, and diagnosis, and can monitor both the network and the applications that run on top of it.
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Day 6: I Miss Automatic Things That Just Work
30 Days With…Google Docs: Day 6
After spending the past couple days talking about Gmail, the focus of 30 Days With…Google Docs today is on things working automatically. There are many features and functions that Google Docs has in common with Microsoft Word, but in Microsoft Word they just worked, and in Google Docs they technically exist, but you have to find them first and manually activate them.
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Ohio Department Of Developmental Disabilities Taking Control Of Virtual Desktops
When it comes to IT, Ohio’s Department of Developmental Disabilities (DoDD) wants innovation. So when the agency’s IT manager went looking for a way to manage the new virtual desktop infrastructure, he looked for innovative solutions. “In our agency, we know we have to innovate. And one of the ways we work is we look for innovators in the industry,” says Kipp Bertke, IT manager for the Ohio DoDD, which oversees a system of support services for 80,000 people with developmental disabilities.
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Brocade Unveils 1st Fabric Adapter Technology
Analyst reports, press articles and the blogosphere are full of commentary about new fabric architectures from Brocade, Cisco and Juniper, that are designed for flatter scale-out in virtualized clouds, LAN/SAN convergence and 40/100Gbs performance. Brocade was the first to introduce this class of fabric with the unveiling of its Brocade One architecture, VCS technology and VDX switches in June of 2010. Cloud-optimized fabrics built with this class of technology connect virtual servers and their application workloads to other virtual servers, as well as to virtual LUNs in storage resource pools–all while maintaining secure, load-balanced client access to the Web, applications and databases deployed on virtual machines.
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Storage Sales Soar But Many Vendors Under Pressure
Like its counterparts over at Gartner Research and IDC, TheInfoPro, a division of The 451 Group, reports strong growth ahead for the storage market in 2011. However, its research, indicates that a number of vendors, especially NetApp, Brocade, Symantec and Commvault, are facing growing challenges that they will need to surmount this year. TheInfoPro Storage Study, conducted in April, is based on 240 interviews that last anywhere from 1 to 3 hours each, with storage professionals and primary decision-makers at large and midsize enterprises in North America.
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