A growing airport reinvented its network troubleshooting methodology and approach to IP address management by scrapping a network management product that wasn't working out and replacing it with SolarWinds' Orion product suite.

Trefis submits: Trefis analysis for Cisco (CSCO). Click to see full analysis. Cisco competes with Juniper (NYSE:JNPR) in the router business and has the leading market share in all three categories of routers (enterprise, core, edge). Cisco sells routers primarily to large businesses and internet service providers that use them to manage the flow of data (such as emails) throughout their networks or through the internet.Complete Story »

Cisco Systems will soon release a VPN client for smartphones and PCs aimed at enterprise administrators who want to provide secure access to their networks and ward off malicious software.

So, I'm working on some Foundry gear and I'd like get access to some manuals to learn how Foundry works. Except they are hidden behind a login for valid service contract holders. Whats up with that ?

The debate on Stackable vs Chassis based switches has a long and proud pedigree. Here is my addition to the debate.

By Greg Ness (InfoBlox)

The much anticipated divorce between Cisco and HP that was announced in recent weeks is a harbinger for the network equipment industry.  Note Alexander Wolfe’s comments from his Wolfe’s Den blog:

Cisco has made what can only be characterized as an aggressive move emphasizing its strategic surge from a networking-centric vendor into a unified computing powerhouse.

Earlier in February Wolfe interviewed HP about their entrance into the infrastructure 2.0 category:

Big Blue will integrate network software and service provider into its Tivoli line.

Look at the these network adapters. One for Server, and one for a Cisco firewall. One costs five times more than the other. Can you pick which one?

Cisco next week is expected to unveil new and enhanced data center products that are designed to more easily interconnect and allocate resources among multiple data centers and are optimized for cloud computing and virtualization.

No matter where you look today the structure of IT is fundamentally changing. Applications are being increasingly accessed from mobile devices along with traditional laptop, desktop and even kiosk machines. Applications are downloaded for free or a few dollars on mobile devices, while cloud computing and anything as a service offers a new approach to application delivery. As a result corporate application portfolios are shifting in their mix under IT leaders from one of total control to partial to none.