Jim Duffy - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jim Duffy

Article | 8/10/2008 Cisco unveils surveillance camera for SMBs

Cisco’s Linksys unit this week unveiled a wireless Internet surveillance camera for small and midsize businesses.

Article | 22/09/2008 Experts: Data networks won't cut it for convergence

Today's data networks won't cut it as foundations for real-time applications like voice and video, experts said last week at the Interop New York 2008...

Article | 18/09/2008 Cisco broadens data center role with new products

Cisco this week launched several products designed to expand the capabilities of its switches and routers in further virtualizing data center systems ...

Article | 18/09/2008 Security challenges cloud virtualization payoff

Virtualization and cloud computing will help companies accomplish more by breaking the physical bonds of an IT infrastructure and its users, executive...

Article | 16/09/2008 Cisco to enter blade server market?

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 ...

Article | 16/09/2008 Enterasys spiffs up its stackable switches

Enterasys will roll out this week at Interop New York a line of stackable switches that feature integral 10Gbps Ethernet ports, IPv6 support and incre...

Article | 16/09/2008 Foundry airs Gigabit Ethernet workgroup switches

Foundry Networks this week at Interop New York is unveiling a switching line for small and midsize businesses, branch offices and distributed enterpri...

Article | 4/09/2008 Internet traffic growth slowing, research firm shows

Despite prognostications that the Internet is about to collapse from the weight of traffic growth -- especially video -- international Internet traffi...

Article | 4/09/2008 CIOs lack the "green" to go green, survey says

CIOs and senior IT executives lack the "green" to go green even though they overwhelmingly believe that a more energy efficient data center will becom...

Article | 7/08/2008 Procter & Gamble cites progress, issues with TelePresence

Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble wants to be the most collaborative company in the world.

Article | 5/08/2008 3Com sues Bain for failed merger fee

3Com is suing Bain Capital to retrieve the US$66 million termination fee of a failed takeover of 3Com by Bain and Huawei Technologies.

Article | 4/08/2008 Nortel wins Olympic gold, but reports Q2 loss

It was a good news/bad news week for Nortel.

Article | 31/07/2008 Cisco simulator can help thwart exam cheating

A US maker of Cisco network simulators says its software can help enterprises make sure they are hiring legitimate Cisco-certified engineers to run th...

Article | 23/07/2008 Watch out Cisco: Here comes Brocade/Foundry

Brocade's proposed US$3 billion acquisition of Foundry Networks this week would create a stronger data center competitor to Cisco while raising the st...

Article | 11/07/2008 Cisco exec shares virtualization vision

John McCool took over for Jayshree Ullal when the longtime and very visible Cisco data center chief resigned in May. McCool is no stranger though -- h...