Larry Quinlan, from Deloitte & Touche LLP, give a presentation about the 5 technologies that will change the IT industry in his opinion.
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Month: February 2009
Juniper’s answer to Cisco in the data center: Stratus Project
Juniper said Tuesday it is partnering with server, storage and software companies to develop a converged data center fabric under a multiyear project that will compete with Cisco’s largely solo effort.
Juniper’s Stratus Project is a year old and comprises six elements: a data center manager, storage, compute, Layer 4-7 switching, appliances and networking. It is intended to be a flat, non-blocking, lossless fabric supporting tens of thousands of Gigabit Ethernet ports, an order of magnitude reduction in latency, no single point of failure, and with security tightly integrated and virtualized.
Stratus is expected to support the Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) data center fabric specifications being defined and endorsed by several vendors.
Check Point overhauls its security software architecture
Check Point is in the midst of a major overhaul of its security software architecture so customers can pick and choose the applications they want and dedicate computing resources to each depending on the performance they want to guarantee.
The company has taken the first step with the latest R70 version of its software that separates its various applications – firewall, VPN, Web filtering, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS) – into software blades that are available to customers a la carte or in pre-packaged bundles.
And Check Point is working toward being able to dedicate part of the computing power of multi-core processors to a single application, starting with its IDS/IPS platform. This capability will be expanded to the company’s other security platforms over time.
The difference between 3G and 4G
Excellent explanation about what is 3G and 4G, speed of the download and different generation of wireless technologies by Craig Mathias.
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Play in Cisco EDGE QUEST 2 Tournament Featuring Cisco ASR 9000 Router
Chance to Win a USD $500 Gift Card and a new Cisco Wireless Audio Home System
SAN JOSE, Calif., February 23, 2009 – Cisco® today announced that you can now play in its tournament for EDGE QUEST 2, an online game featuring the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR), with opportunities to win prizes over a two-week period. The Cisco ASR 9000 is part of the Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture, beginning on February 23.
Cisco EDGE QUEST 2 Tournament begins Monday, February 23 and runs through Friday, March 6, 2009. To enter, go to www.cisco.com/go/edgequest.
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