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• Cisco's Cius business tablet: A visual tour

  Cisco gets down to business with its Cius business tablet that will let you perform video conferencing and is optimized for apps such as WebEx Meeting Center.

• Networks go green and save money

  Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up.

• HP sets sights on Cisco in networking battle

  It was nearly an hour into the opening keynotes at the Americas Partner Summit on Monday until a Hewlett Packard executive finally used the C-word: Cisco. But the one-time networking partner was certainty front of mind though as HP re-affirmed its commitment to become the leader in every business segment it competes in including networking.

• Special report: Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches

  Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers.

• Quiz: What were the first products from today's biggest tech companies?

  Cisco, Microsoft, IBM: They all started somewhere. Take this quiz to see how well you know the humble origins of today's tech titans

• Cisco defectors

  A round-up of recent and not so recent departures by Cisco executives and where they landed

• Direction, strategy with Cisco's data centre guru

  As a 13 year Cisco veteran, John McCool, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Data Centre Switching and Services Group, has seen a boatload of change. He is responsible for the strategy, engineering and marketing of Cisco's family of enterprise Ethernet switching solutions, including the Catalyst series, the Nexus data center switches and the MDS storage area network line.

• Slideshow: Cisco Networkers Party 2009

  Cisco's annual networking event wrapped-up with a James Bond 007 themed night full of activities, and with a special appearance from rock outfit Evermore.

• Consumers wary of speech recogntion technology: report

  Organisations looking to implement voice automation systems need to think very hard about the needs of their customers before doing so, a new report has found.

• Who says the router can't be sexy?

  Technology vendors have often been on the cutting-edge of technology innovation, but the same can't always be said of their design. Manufacturers have more often been concerned about what's inside the box, devoting less time and resources to the look and feel of the box itself.

• Data center derby heats up

  Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM teams up with Brocade. Oracle buys Sun. And everybody courts that prize filly VMware.

• Cisco TelePresence 500: Full collaboration

  More affordable midrange telepresence systems, such as offerings from Polycom and LifeSize systems, offer fine picture and audio quality, along with usability. But in the overall product continuum, Cisco TelePresence System 500 is the most economical system that gives you the full experience of telepresence rooms.

• Telepresence shatters communication barriers

  Well before the current world financial crisis struck, organizations have sought inventive ways to engage in face-to-face meetings without the need to travel. Companies have turned to services such as Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro, Cisco WebEx, Citrix GoToMeeting, and Microsoft Live Meeting as a means for workers in multiple locations to share presentations and otherwise collaborate.

• Cisco, EMC, VMware form private cloud pact

  The current ratio of IT spend on maintaining IT systems against innovation has become unsustainable according to EMC’s Australian president, David Webster.

• Cloud computing needs better security, interoperability to live up to hype

  If cloud computing is to move beyond the hype cycle, vendors need to put aside their differences and agree on common principles related to security and the interoperability of cloud platforms, a growing number of industry players are saying.