Thin clients now as flexible as PCs, claims Igel
Igel Technology has introduced a family of thin clients, called Universal Desktop, which it claims is the first to have single standard system images across the range.
Stories by Bryan Betts
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Infoblox ports network services to Cisco's ISR
Infoblox has ported its Nios network services software to run as a virtual appliance on Cisco's ISR branch routers.
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Mobile Web use hits an upward curve at last
Data traffic to mobile phones jumped 463 percent in November compared to the same month last year, according to the latest State of the Mobile Web report from Opera Software.
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Fans and skeptics argue on Fibre Channel over Ethernet
This year's Storage Networking World Europe show focused attention on Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). However, while SAN vendors promoted FCoE as a way to extend Fibre Channel's reach and longevity, skeptics described it as unnecessary -- and perhaps even a Cisco-powered Trojan horse intended to wipe out rival networking supplier Brocade Communications.
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ParaScale pushes private storage clouds
Cloud storage startup ParaScale is targeting enterprises, as well as service providers, with new software that it claims can turn a group of heterogeneous servers and storage arrays into a redundant and self-healing private cloud of storage.
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Network Instruments data recorder holds 288T bytes
Network Instruments has developed what it claims is the largest network data recorder available. The GigaStor SAS has a capacity of up to 288 terabytes, and was originally developed for a U.S. military customer which needed to store a month's worth of the traffic on its network, said Douglas Smith, the company's president and co-founder.
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One size fits all for WAN acceleration, claims Expand
Replacing different-capacity WAN accelerators with a standard-sized but software-limited box can cut costs and reduce upgrade woes, Expand Networks has claimed.
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Nexsan gets beastly with business data
Nexsan has introduced a storage subsystem which it said could enable users to consolidate their long-term business-critical data stores into a single consolidated platform.
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Akamai and Citrix link up on app acceleration
Akamai and Citrix are linking up to offer global application optimization, combining Akamai's Internet-based web application acceleration (WAA) service with Citrix NetScaler application optimization gear in customer sites.
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WAN accelerator breaks the Gig barrier
Silver Peak has launched what it claimed is the biggest WAN accelerator ever - a box able to optimize, de-duplicate, compress and encrypt 1Gbit/s of WAN traffic.
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Net monitors make Riverbed visible
Riverbed has done deals with several developers of network monitoring software to get them to add support for its Steelhead WAN appliances.
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Nortel goes open source for unified communications
Telephony has at last become an IT product, claimed Nortel as it announced SCS500, an open source-based unified communications suite for small and mid-sized businesses.
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Ocarina claims online de-dupe breakthrough
De-duplication has become popular for backup data, but not for primary storage. Now, US start-up company Ocarina Networks wants to change that, with a data reduction technology which it claims can shrink live production data too - even if the file formats are already compressed.
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Mobile devices bring touch into the user equation
As mobile devices evolve and grow more sophisticated, so too do the ways that we interact with them.
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WAN war breaks out over changed file formats
A changed file format has sparked off a fierce war of words between users, WAN acceleration vendors and the software company involved.
