BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) isn't just media hype anymore, it's a reality in U.S. enterprises today. A new Cisco study of 600 IT professionals found that 95 percent of organizations now permit employee owned devices in their environments.
While BYOD may add some additional complexity to a network in terms of security policy, 76 percent of the respondents said that BYOD is a positive move for their enterprises...

Cisco reported third quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Wednesday that were in line with expectations. Expectations for the future, however, aren't overly enthusiastic as customer conservatism begins to set in and macroeconomic concerns are slowing the sales cycle.
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Herrod delivered a keynote at the Interop conference in Las Vegas last week about his company's vision for software-defined data centers. It's a model that enables different hardware and software solutions to fit together...

LAS VEGAS. Allan Leinwand, CTO of Zynga is not the typical kind of CTO to take the keynote stage at the Interop networking conference. Instead of representing a networking vendor, Leinwand works for an application vendor that makes games...

LAS VEGAS. Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior took the keynote stage at the Interop conference today to detail where the world of networking has been and where it is going. It's a world where the network's value is about individual users.
Warrior began by explaining that the first phase of the networks evolution was just about getting access...

During the Apple's earnings call this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked if he thought the tablet and traditional notebook computing markets would converge. Intel currently is ramping up its Ultrabook concept, which includes hybrid tablet and notebook designs.
"You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user," Cook said...

Intel reported its first quarter fiscal 2012 earning late Monday. Revenue was reported at $12.9 billion with Net Income coming in at $2.7 billion. Intel's PC Client Group delivered the lion's share of revenue at $8.5 billion with the Data Center Group coming in at $2.5 billion.
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IBM reported first quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Tuesday, stating revenue of $24.7 billion, a 1 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was $3.1 billion, up 9 percent from the first quarter of 2011. Looking ahead, IBM is more optimistic now about its 2012 prospects than it was at the beginning of the year, thanks largely to growth in its software business...

As the server industry awaits the official release of Intel next generation E5 processors next week, server vendors are busy announcing their own platform refreshes. Last week it was HP with its Gen8 platform; this week it's Dell with the 12G server platform...

As an IT security executive, your ability to effectively manage risk depends in large part on having an accurate operational viewpoint into the security posture of your organization's IT assets. But gathering actionable intelligence from a wide range of systems and platforms can be a complicated task...

One of Salesforce's big wins in the fourth quarter was with HP, a company that has been undergoing a great deal of leadership and organizational change. Benioff noted that HP embarked on a transformation to become a more social enterprise, connecting employees, customers and partners using the Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Chatter and Force...

HP is launching a new generation of server technology that is about more than just the underlying Intel chipset. Today, HP is unveiling Project Voyager, which is part of a multiyear $300 million plus investment to help redefine server economics.
Project Voyager is being baked into HP Gen8 server platforms later this year, although HP is now talking about the underlying innovations in the platform...

With Dreadnot, Rackspace engineers are able to push code into production faster than ever. Paul Querna, engineer on the Rackspace Cloud Monitoring team explained to...

Big Data startup Cloudera is getting a big vote of confidence from Oracle. Oracle today announced the availability of the Oracle Big Data Appliance, including Cloudera's distribution of Hadoop (CDH).
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Among the major enhancements in the 3.2 kernel is a pair of improvements to two Linux filesystems. The Ext4 filesystem is getting a boost that will see filesystem blocks grow to up to 1 MB in size up from the traditional 4 KB.
"This adds supports for bigalloc file systems," Linux kernel developer Ted Ts'o wrote in his initial code [url=http://www...

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is usually seen just as a way to help enterprises deliver desktops more efficiently. As it turns out, VDI can deliver more than just business desktops, the technology can also be leveraged to deliver business services...

During the company's Annual General Meeting held Wednesday, CEO John Chambers outlined Cisco's strategy for the road ahead. It's a strategy that emphasizes innovation and business enablement as opposed to just the network plumbing of switches and routers...

As world economies teeter on the brink, the rest of the world appears to keep going -- at least that's one apparent take away from the latest figures for PC CPU sales globally.
Analyst firm IDC Thursday reported that worldwide sales of PC microprocessors grew by 16...

Despite an explosion of interest from users when it first shipped earlier this year, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) has not reversed -- or even slowed for long -- the decline of Microsoft's browser from its once near monopoly dominance.
Web analytics firm Net Applications' latest numbers show that, if current trends continue, Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) IE will soon have less than 50 percent market share for desktop browsers...

Canonical is set to release Ubuntu 11.10, codenamed the Oneiric Ocelot this week, with a key focus on the cloud.
Among the cloud-focused technology components that are set to debut in the new Linux distribution is something that Canonical is branding as Juju. With Juju, Ubuntu is aiming to deliver a cloud orchestration technology for server admins...