Stories by: Jim Duffy

Cisco's IronPort Systems unit this week unveiled hardware extensions to its e-mail security appliances that more than double the performance of the company's previous-generation platforms.

Nortel this week unveiled a unified communications platform for small-to-midsized businesses that the company says allows them to save up to 70% of their investment in legacy Nortel phone systems.

Cisco’s Linksys unit this week unveiled a wireless Internet surveillance camera for small and midsize businesses.

Numerous behavioral risks taken by employees in increasingly distributed and remote locations can lead to the loss of corporate information, according to a study commissioned by Cisco.

Nortel's decision to divest its carrier Ethernet and optical businesses was based on the company's shift to a more software-driven business model, the outgoing head of those businesses says.

Enterasys President and CEO Mike Fabiaschi passed away suddenly this week at his home in the US. He was 53.

Extreme Networks and Alcatel-Lucent this week are unveiling equipment designed to further whet carriers' appetites for Ethernet.

Today's data networks won't cut it as foundations for real-time applications like voice and video, experts said last week at the Interop New York 2008 conference.

Is green IT about saving money or social responsibility?

Virtualization and cloud computing will help companies accomplish more by breaking the physical bonds of an IT infrastructure and its users, executives from Cisco and Novell proclaimed this week during their keynote addresses at Interop New York. But caveats such as heightened security threats must be overcome in order to fully benefit from this new computing paradigm, they warned.

Cisco this week launched several products designed to expand the capabilities of its switches and routers in further virtualizing data center systems and processes.