Fibre to the home will be the only way to deliver high end applications such as complete remote computing and full 3D virtual collaboration in Australia, according to NBN Co cheif, Mike Quigley.
Networking company Extreme Networks has come out with a plan to help enterprises migrate their data centres from a physical network, to a virtual network to location-independent cloud networks.
HP has signed a deal with the NSW Department of Services, Technology and Administration (previously the Department of Commerce) to establish a new single enterprise resource management (ERP) disaster recovery centre. The project involves moving three separate ERP environments onto the one platform, running on two HP Integrity rx8460 Itanium servers and HP StorageWorks XP24000. It will also include the implementation of HP Global Instant Capability on Demand (GiCAP) software. The software lets organisations move the usage rights for hardware and software within a group of servers, deactivating components effectively in one server so they can activated in other.
Computer forensics don't have to solely focus on recovering and searching for evidence on storage devices. Although programs like Encase and FTK 3.0 are excellent tools to help find documents, photographs and other files for your investigation, they cut short on collecting network traffic your suspect sends and receives.
HP has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 3Com Corporation for approximately $US2.7 billion.
The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of domestic and foreign regulatory approvals and the approval of 3Com's stockholders, and is expected to close in the first half of calendar 2010.
Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy 3Com for about US$2.7 billion, pushing forward the giant IT vendor's strategy for combining computing, storage, services and networking under one roof.
A day after Microsoft plugged more than a dozen holes in its software, a security researcher unveiled a new unpatched bug in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 that, when exploited, locks up the system, requiring a total shutdown to regain control.
Cisco has finally publicly acknowledged it won't add support for new third-party devices to its security information and event monitoring appliance, ending months of speculation about the future of its Monitoring, Analysis and Response System. Some claim it's the beginning of the end for MARS as a multi-vendor SIEM device.
Internode is offering IPv6 services in native mode on its national ADSL network. The broadband provider said it had been operating a native IPv6 backbone from mid-2008 but it was only available to those with a direct Ethernet connection or with the ability to tunnel IPv6 through an IPv4 connection. The new offering is being run across the company's national network and provides concurrent IPv6 and IPv4 PPP access for any router or computer that supports it.
The Unity fiber-optic cable, a new trans-Pacific undersea cable partly backed by Google, has landed in Japan, marking an important step toward the launch of service.
Juniper Networks has opened up its Junos operating system to third-party developers as part of a swathe of new announcements.
The debate over valuations is just warming up
Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the maker of the most popular desktop Linux alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, not only claims to be "delighted" that Windows 7 is out, but calls the new operating system an "excellent release."
Ethernet switch vendor Extreme Networks is replacing its CEO and laying off 70 employees in an effort to quickly improve the company's bottom line and set it up to run profitably with lower revenues.
Whether at home or at the office, networking has gone mainstream.