Layered Technologies, a provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, announced that its recently completed network upgrades to further strengthen its ability to handle complex requirements of enterprise-class customers for traditional and virtualization platforms, while simultaneously positioning Layered Tech to effectively manage its rapid growth. Network investments include expanding its number of carriers so that customers have a blend of Internet pathways. Level 3 Communications, Global Crossing and Sprint give Layered Tech's customers strong

Enterprises can now buy a networking appliance from Cisco Systems that runs basic Windows Server 2008 functions, a product designed for use in branch offices, Cisco and Microsoft announced Wednesday. Workforce Management: At the Heart of the Contact Center Learn more, download free white paper. The Modern Contact Center and Workforce Management's Vital Role Learn more, download free white paper. Realizing the Full Promise of Workforce Management Technology: Avoiding Mistakes That Short-Change Your Investment Learn more, download free white paper.

xkoto, the database virtualization company, today announced GRIDSCALE for Microsoft SQL Server, a product that improves application performance, scalability and reliability in SQL Server environments.

As a result of a new strategic partnership with 6WIND, active in embedded multicore networking software, VirtualLogix today announced the industry’s first solution allowing network equipment providers (NEPs) to bring advanced network elements such as 4G wireless base stations or smart media gateways to market faster, ultimately speeding the delivery of Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia services to end-users.

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a leading worldwide provider of on-demand IT infrastructure, today announced that its recently completed network upgrades further strengthen its ability to handle complex requirements of enterprise-class customers for traditional and virtualization platforms, while simultaneously positioning Layered Tech to effectively manage its rapid growth.

Pacnet has selected Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) as one of its key suppliers to enable rapid network capacity upgrades across strategic parts of its networks in Asia and US. By deploying Infinera's Digital Optical Networking system to upgrade its backhaul networks and interconnections between its points of presence (PoPs) in these locations, Pacnet has been able to significantly shorten service provisioning times compared to traditional dense-wave-division multiplexing (DWDM) systems. Additionally, Infinera's solution was selected

No one's quite sure if Oracle's Exadata systems are storage arrays or data warehouses, but one analyst warned makers of high-end storage systems to "watch their backs."

Cisco announced the other day that they were buying Jabber.  Jabber of course makes instant messaging and chat software.  In and of itself this acquisition is simple enough, but when you look at some of the recent Cisco acquisitions you start to get the feeling that there is more here than just more network gear.  Over the last two years Cisco has made several acquisitions in the social networking, web conferencing, email and now chat/messaging.

In this tip, learn how to measure wireless networking performance with iPerf -- a tool that calculates TCP/UDP, throughput, loss and delay. Eliminate jitter, isolate bottlenecks of traffic, or monitor Wi-Fi or AP performance using this open source testing tool.

Tenable Network Security announced the general availability of a virtual appliance for the Nessus Vulnerability Scanner. Tenable's Nessus Virtual Appliance for VMware is a pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run software application packaged with the operating system inside a virtual machine. This is available to Tenable ProfessionalFeed subscribers as a free download and the virtual appliance is easily deployed in under 10 minutes -- reducing infrastructure cost/complexity, simplifying deployment and maximizing ROI in VMware environments. read more