Jim Duffy - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jim Duffy

Article | 25/05/2011 Cisco adds IPv6 migration features to routers

Cisco this week rolled out products and services designed to ease the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 for enterprise customers.

Article | 14/05/2011 Startup rolls out 40G data center switches at Interop

LAS VEGAS -- Tucked way in the back corner of the exhibition floor in a tiny cubicle, Gnodal Limited, a startup data center switch vendor from Bristol...

Article | 12/05/2011 How is cloud computing like an airplane?

LAS VEGAS – A cloud computing service is like an airliner - even though it can experience devastating crashes that affect many people, like Amazon’s c...

Article | 11/05/2011 Juniper: Networks inhibit 'exponential' data center

LAS VEGAS -- Current networks inhibit large-scale data centers, which require new fabric architectures, a Juniper official said during his keynote add...

Article | 11/05/2011 Extreme looks to one-up Cisco, others in data center

LAS VEGAS - At Interop this week, Extreme Networks rolled out two new switches designed to migrate users from legacy data center infrastructures into ...

Article | 11/05/2011 HP takes swipes at Cisco on Interop stage

LAS VEGAS -- It's not often HP and Cisco share the same stage during a keynote address. But today at Interop that's exactly what they did -- and HP di...

Article | 10/05/2011 Dell extends data center line for virtualization

LAS VEGAS -- At the Interop trade show this week, Dell will expand its networking, server and storage product lines to help users migrate from legacy ...

Article | 6/05/2011 Cisco restructures, streamlines operations

Responding to criticism of its management structure after consecutive quarters of uninspiring performance, Cisco this week restructured operations in ...

Article | 6/05/2011 Cisco's 3 biggest weaknesses

Cisco has stumbled, realized it needed to change course and has begun to make those changes. This week's management and business unit restructuring is...

Article | 4/05/2011 Brocade fleshes out cloud strategy for battle with Cisco, others

Brocade today unveiled its plan for migrating customers to distributed, virtualized, Cloud-based data centers, along with products supporting that pla...

Article | 3/05/2011 Juniper rolls out latest Cisco challenge

Juniper Networks this week is rolling out its first dedicated line of enterprise edge routers, a collection of products that borrow technology from th...

Article | 28/04/2011 Cisco offers early retirement to certain employees

Cisco this week instituted a voluntary early retirement program, its first in two years, in an effort to reduce costs.

Article | 27/04/2011 Force10 taking data centers into zettabyte era

Force10 Networks this week will unveil data center core and top-of-rack switches that mark the first offering of high-density 40/100G Ethernet among t...

Article | 27/04/2011 Alcatel-Lucent looking to sell enterprise business: Report

Alcatel-Lucent is reportedly shopping around its enterprise switching, IP telephony and contact center businesses in an effort to boost its financial ...

Article | 19/04/2011 Cisco enterprise management tools take on new network realities

Cisco this week broadened the security and management capabilities of its enterprise products to help IT shops get a better grip on mobile devices, vi...