Friday | 22 August, 2008
Networking: Interviews
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A virtual hit for MLB Advanced Media 03 January, 2008 07:54:04
Virtualization helps MLB Advanced Media get a new application up in midseason and promises to play a big role in its new data center and beyondDecember is a relatively slow time of year at MLB Advanced Media, the company that brings you the official Major League Baseball Web sites. From pitch-by-pitch accounts of games to streaming audio and video -- plus news, schedules, statistics and more -- it has baseball covered. Doing so requires serious horsepower, so much so that the company's Manhattan data center is pretty much tapped out in terms of space and power, according to Ryan Nelson, director of operations for the firm. Strategic use of virtualization technology enabled him nevertheless to forge ahead with implementing new products during the 2007 season, and promises to smooth a shift to a new data center in Chicago in time for the 2008 season. - +
3Com's CEO sees company as a US-Asia trendsetter 24 December, 2007 07:57:45
Edgar Masri sees open source as a differentiator with CiscoEdgar Masri, now the president and CEO of 3Com, rejoined the networking company in August 2006 after six years at Matrix Partners, a venture capital firm. Before that, he was general manager of 3Com's network systems business unit. Since his return, the company has acquired 100% of its former joint venture with China-based H3C Technologies Co., formerly known as Huawei, and announced that it is being bought by Bain Capital Partners, a private investment firm, for US$2.2 billion in cash. As the company looks to go private, Masri, 49, talked with Computerworld about how 3Com has grown, how it hopes to take on Cisco and the importance of open source. - +
Interview: Cisco's channel future: technology groupings 21 December, 2007 06:50:35
Growing popularity of social networking and acquisitions are affecting the networking landscapeWith Cisco Systems' move into the SMB space, the growing popularity of social networking in the enterprise and a host of acquisitions, it's been a busy year for the networking vendor's channel partners. At the company's recent C-Scape press and analyst conference in San Jose, vice-president of worldwide channels, Edison Peres, sat down to discuss the way ahead. - +
Cisco: the new software giant 14 December, 2007 11:06:02
Senior Vice President Don Proctor talks about Cisco's software planFor the first time, Cisco has assembled all of its software assets -- IOS, Unified Communications, Collaboration and Network Management -- under a single organization. The Software Group was formed to coordinate product development and inject a common set of services across all of Cisco's software. Senior Vice President Don Proctor took some time at this week's C-Scape analyst conference to talk with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy about Cisco's software plan. - +
Internet Society CEO sets sights on next 'Net users 07 December, 2007 09:25:28
Not deploying IPv6 threatens Internet, Lynn St. Amour warnsThe Internet has 1.3 billion users, but that's not enough for Lynn St. Amour. As CEO of the Internet Society, she is expanding the nonprofit group, which promotes development of the Internet globally. St. Amour doubled the group's staff in 2007 and beefed up its outreach activities in Africa, South America and Asia in her bid to add another billion Internet users worldwide. National Correspondent Carolyn Duffy Marsan sat down with St. Amour this week at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force, an ISOC-funded standards group. Here are excerpts from their conversation: - +
Rackspace: a realistic green pioneer 23 November, 2007 11:31:39
The pace of green datacentre change: edging ahead but not racingRackspace provides datacentre facilities under a managed hosting scheme. It is building a new UK datacentre and has had a green aspect to its business for about a year and a half. How is that affecting its operations? - +
Can the datacentre be green? APC's founder speaks out 23 November, 2007 11:20:46
Neil Rasmussen discusses energy efficiency and how to improve itAPC founder and CTO Neil Rasmussen was in London recently to talk about datacentres, power and efficiency - themes that have become headline news as they transmogrify into green issues. We took the opportunity to ask him - inter alia - whether the datacentre can ever be green. - +
Microsoft reaches out to voice vendors 16 October, 2007 00:17:35
Microsoft announces program to help telephony vendors make their products work with OCS.Microsoft is expanding its work with enterprise telephony vendors to make its Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 work more closely with office phone systems. - +
Microsoft executive discusses virtualization 21 August, 2007 08:26:48
Mike Neil deflects critics’ punches on the company’s virtualization timeline and strategyMike Neil, Microsoft's general manager of virtualization, is on the big stage with a hot technology. The lights are on him as he prepares for next year's delivery of Windows Server Virtualization, which first was a feature and now is an add-on to Windows Server 2008. Neil, who joined Microsoft four years ago as part of the Connectix acquisition, recently talked with Network World Senior Editor John Fontana about critics, competition, licensing and feature delays. - +
Citrix: XenSource fills hole in product portfolio 17 August, 2007 08:34:21
Pending purchase will equip Citrix's application delivery infrastructure products with virtualization technologiesCitrix's announcement that it would acquire XenSource demonstrates the company's plans to support the most relevant application delivery technologies possible, company officials say. The software, according to Citrix Chief Strategy Officer Wes Wasson, will not only enhance Citrix's desktop and server products, but also be put to use in the company's application-networking tools also acquired with NetScaler and Orbital Data. Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie talked with Wasson yesterday to learn more about why Citrix made this move now and what it means to corporate IT customers. - +
From the top: D-Link's Domenic Torre - Adding more value 16 August, 2007 12:19:02
D-Link's Domenic Torre shares his thought on the networking market and how adding value will be the key driver for both vendors and channel partnersAdding more value is a key focus for D-Link and its channel this year. In the third and final part of an interview with ARN's NADIA CAMERON, local managing director, Domenic Torre, talks about its distribution strategy, future product direction and how he sees the networking competitive landscape changing.
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