Aggregation continues – Brocade and Foundry

In another sign of the current state of the industry market place, we’ve just seen the announcement of the aquistion of network switch supplier Foundry by SAN switch supplier Brocade. Whilst some of the blogs around seem to want to portray this is an opportinity for heartburn, I’m not sure that this will be the [...]

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New Juniper WXC appliances

On Monday Juniper launched some new bits of kit in the WXC line, the WXC-1800, WXC-2600, and WXC-3400 devices.
The new appliances are partial replacements and extensions over the existing WXC platforms, and they’ve taken the additional capabilities of the platforms to reposition devices a little more cleverly than the WXC-250, 500 and 590..

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Purple and Blue – Updated Packeteer and BlueCoat merger information

So Packeteer and BlueCoat have done the deed, and Packeteer is now “A BlueCoat Company”.
Quick take-aways so far indicate the planned killing off of a significant portion of the Packeteer product line, and the maintenance of the current Packetshaper product line (Packetshaper, Intelligence Centre and PolicyCentre).

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The advantage of simple APIs

I still can’t believe how simple it is to set up new features within a blog utilising WordPress.
Take the recent launch of the LinkedIn Company Insider widget, which is now integrated here on a few pages

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a constant c?

It all started with a discussion around the tea-table a few days ago, about the fact that a lightyear is a measurement of distance and not of time, because a light year is the distance travelled by a photon over the period of a year. (d=s*t for those who like the maths, or the area [...]

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