Stories by: Bryan Betts

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Thin clients now as flexible as PCs, claims Igel 30 January, 2009 06:33

Igel Technology has introduced a family of thin clients, called Universal Desktop, which it claims is the first to have single standard system images across the range.
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Infoblox ports network services to Cisco's ISR 13 January, 2009 07:05

Infoblox has ported its Nios network services software to run as a virtual appliance on Cisco's ISR branch routers.
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Mobile Web use hits an upward curve at last 24 December, 2008 02:50

Data traffic to mobile phones jumped 463 percent in November compared to the same month last year, according to the latest State of the Mobile Web report from Opera Software.
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Fans and skeptics argue on Fibre Channel over Ethernet 03 November, 2008 12:41

This year's Storage Networking World Europe show focused attention on Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). However, while SAN vendors promoted FCoE as a way to extend Fibre Channel's reach and longevity, skeptics described it as unnecessary -- and perhaps even a Cisco-powered Trojan horse intended to wipe out rival networking supplier Brocade Communications.
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ParaScale pushes private storage clouds 30 October, 2008 05:03

Cloud storage startup ParaScale is targeting enterprises, as well as service providers, with new software that it claims can turn a group of heterogeneous servers and storage arrays into a redundant and self-healing private cloud of storage.
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10G Ethernet: can copper cut the mustard? 02 September, 2008 10:37

If 10Gigabit Ethernet has a problem, it's multiple personalities. 10G over fibre is well established as a network backbone technology, but in past generations it's been Ethernet over copper - and especially telephone-style twisted pair cabling - that has brought the big upsurge in usage and sales.
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Network Instruments data recorder holds 288T bytes 20 August, 2008 05:11

Network Instruments has developed what it claims is the largest network data recorder available. The GigaStor SAS has a capacity of up to 288 terabytes, and was originally developed for a U.S. military customer which needed to store a month's worth of the traffic on its network, said Douglas Smith, the company's president and co-founder.
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One size fits all for WAN acceleration, claims Expand 15 August, 2008 08:24

Replacing different-capacity WAN accelerators with a standard-sized but software-limited box can cut costs and reduce upgrade woes, Expand Networks has claimed.
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Nexsan gets beastly with business data 22 July, 2008 13:12

Nexsan has introduced a storage subsystem which it said could enable users to consolidate their long-term business-critical data stores into a single consolidated platform.
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Audio processing is on the move 11 June, 2008 12:08

There is a quiet revolution underway in audio processing - although it's quiet only in that the developments are mainly aimed at eliminating troublesome noise and echos. To find out more, we talked to a few of the companies leading the charge.
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Akamai and Citrix link up on app acceleration 23 May, 2008 10:14

Akamai and Citrix are linking up to offer global application optimization, combining Akamai's Internet-based web application acceleration (WAA) service with Citrix NetScaler application optimization gear in customer sites.