Jim Duffy - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jim Duffy

Article | 5/12/2007 Juniper 'Hurricane' in the forecast

Industry watchers expect a "Hurricane" to hit New York in late January. That's because January 29 is when Juniper Networks has scheduled a daylong eve...

Article | 30/11/2007 Nortel bolsters security, business process gear

Nortel this week unveiled new and enhanced products designed to improve security and further optimize the network for business processes.

Article | 21/11/2007 Power-over-Ethernet drives record quarter in switch sales

Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) port shipments in the third quarter made up over 20 percent of worldwide Ethernet switch port shipments, according to Dell'O...

Article | 14/11/2007 Data center switch start-up expands line

Woven Systems, a 10Gbps Ethernet fabric switching start-up, this week unveiled a 48-port "top of rack" Gigabit Ethernet edge switch for data centers.

Article | 8/11/2007 10G Ethernet data-center switch on tap

Data centers may not just be getting greener -- they could be getting cheaper, too.

Article | 6/11/2007 HP to extend WLAN offerings

HP ProCurve this week is expected to unveil a wireless access point and management software to enable users to ease deployment and visualization of sm...

Article | 2/11/2007 Cisco to buy policy management vendor for US$100 million

Cisco this week announced an agreement to acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software for enterprises, for US$100 million. Securent is ...

Article | 2/11/2007 Upgraded Vyatta software attempts to make users think twice about Cisco

Open source may have taken another step in becoming a considerable alternative to the old guard for enterprise routing.

Article | 30/10/2007 INTEROP - Color Interop green

Several conference tracks were sprinkled with topics on attaining better power, heat and cooling efficiency with data centers, servers and storage arc...

Article | 26/10/2007 Web 2.0 inevitable in the enterprise, experts say

The Web 2.0 phenomenon - wikis, RSS feeds, social-networking platforms and mash-ups - soon will become a common mode of operation for enterprise IT, e...

Article | 25/10/2007 Next-generation LANs, branches under consideration

The next-generation LAN will be mobile, secure, intelligent and service- vs. speed-oriented, experts at the Interop New York conference said this week...

Article | 23/10/2007 INTEROP - Vendors a little light on product announcements.

It must be time for Interop New York. Yes, the little sister to the humongous show in Vegas in the northern spring begins this week, and while not as ...

Article | 23/10/2007 3Com brings gigabit to SMBs

3Com this week is expected to unveil switches for small and medium businesses designed to bring enterprise-class capabilities, such as Gigabit Etherne...

Article | 22/10/2007 Cisco says it did not 'act inappropriately' in Brazil

Cisco says it did not "act inappropriately" after four of its employees were included in the 44 arrests made this week by federal authorities in Brazi...

Article | 22/10/2007 SMB - Social networking to taper off in five years

Membership growth in social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook in all regions is expected to peak in 2009 and level off by 2012.