Jim Duffy

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Recent articles by Duffy

Cisco unveils surveillance camera for SMBs
10/06/08
Cisco's Linksys unit this week unveiled a wireless Internet surveillance camera for small and midsize businesses.

Popular career site LinkedIn out
10/02/08
The popular networking site LinkedIn was down for several hours Thursday, the source of the outage unclear.

Enterasys/Siemens combo gets a CEO
10/01/08
Siemens Enterprise Communications, the new joint venture between The Gores Group and Siemens AG, has named James O’Neill, a 30-year technology industry veteran, as its CEO.

Top 10 ways collaboration, mobility amplify data leakage dangers: Cisco study
09/30/08
Numerous behavioral risks taken by employees in increasingly distributed and remote locations can lead to the loss of corporate information, according to a study commissioned by Cisco.

3Com names former Cisco manager to products group
09/30/08
3Com this week named a former Cisco manager as its new senior vice president of worldwide products and solutions.

Nortel looks to software as it shops Metro Ethernet unit
09/24/08
Nortel's decision to divest its carrier Ethernet and optical businesses was based on the company's shift to a more software driven business model, the outgoing head of those businesses says.

Enterasys CEO Fabiaschi dies suddenly
09/24/08
Enterasys President and CEO Mike Fabiaschi passed away suddenly this week at his home in Rye, N.H. He was 53.

Cisco bolsters collaboration lineup, including new WebEx ties
09/24/08
Cisco this week rolled out a new collaboration product portfolio designed to help companies accelerate business processes and increase productivity, and further mine a $34 billion market for Cisco.

Extreme, Alcatel-Lucent feed carrier Ethernet frenzy
09/22/08
Extreme Networks and Alcatel-Lucent this week are unveiling equipment designed to further whet carriers' appetites for Ethernet.

Cisco to acquire Jabber
09/19/08
Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, a provider of presence and messaging software.

Data networks won't cut it for convergence
09/19/08
Today's data networks won't cut it as foundations for real-time applications like voice and video, experts said this week at the Interop New York conference.

Interop focuses on virtualization technology as financial world shakes outside
09/18/08
Users need to warily embrace virtualization was the message put forth by speakers at Interop New York, where attendees tried to sort out how to proceed with technology investments in the face of possible IT budget cuts prompted by the Wall St. financial crisis unfolding just blocks away.

Interop spotlights green IT
09/18/08
Is green IT about saving money or social responsibility? The topic was tackled during two conference sessions at this week’s Interop New York trade show. The consensus was that it could be both -- but the real driver towards a green initiative is greenbacks.

Security challenges cloud virtualization payoff
09/17/08
Virtualization and cloud computing will help companies accomplish more by breaking the physical bonds of an IT infrastructure and its users, executives from Cisco and Novell proclaimed this week during their keynote addresses at Interop New York.

Cisco accelerates broadening of data center role with host of new products
09/17/08
Cisco this week launched several products designed to expand the capabilities of its switches and routers in further virtualizing data center systems and processes.

Enterasys spiffs up its stackable switches
09/15/08
Enterasys will roll out this week at Interop New York a line of stackable switches that feature integral 10Gbps Ethernet ports, IPv6 support and increased bandwidth and throughput vs. its earlier models.

Juniper invests in Packet Design
09/15/08
Juniper Networks has made a $2 million investment in Packet Design, a developer of routing analysis and optimization software, as part of Packet’s Design’s $12 million fourth round funding.

Cisco to enter blade server market?
09/15/08
As part of its aggressive push into becoming an overall IT player, Cisco may be looking to enter the blade server market to round out its data center portfolio and fortify its position in those lucrative, compute-intensive accounts.

Foundry airs Gigabit Ethernet workgroup switches
09/15/08
Foundry Networks this week at Interop New York is unveiling a switching line for small and midsize businesses, branch offices and distributed enterprise workgroups, plus stackables and stacking upgrades for existing switches.

Advanced switching grabs Interop New York spotlight
09/15/08
Switching will take center stage at this week's Interop New York conference, where vendors such as Foundry Networks, Enterasys Networks and Force 10 Networks will roll out new and enhanced products in defiance of a downcast IT spending environment.

Cisco expands Carrier Ethernet lineup
09/15/08
Cisco this week is unveiling enhancements to its Carrier Ethernet lineup designed to scale and upgrade services for business, residential and mobile users.

Cisco pushes 'network memory' to alleviate high-speed bottlenecks
09/09/08
A Cisco engineer has been recognized for his work on scaling router and switch performance with algorithms he developed at a start-up Cisco acquired three years ago.

Is Juniper eyeing Aruba, Meru?
09/08/08
Juniper Networks reportedly is looking to buy either Aruba Networks or Meru Networks to strengthen its presence in enterprise networks through a formidable wireless LAN offering.

Foundry supports Microsoft Hyper-V
09/08/08
Foundry Networks this week announced support for Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization software.  

What are Cisco's top network-management challenges?
09/03/08
Automation, better metrics top list of Cisco's network-management challenges.

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