Posts belonging to Category Cisco

Voltaire Joins the Anti-Cisco Mob

Voltaire, an InfiniBand loyalist through thick and thin – mostly thin for the last 10 years – has decided it’s long past time to stop beating its head against the wall and expand into Ethernet especially now that InfiniBand and Ethernet are starting to resemble each other and it can bring something to the party. [...]

Cisco Takes its Long Shot at Morphing into IT’s El Supremo

Cisco CEO John Chambers Monday became the latest in a long line of visionaries to come down from the mountain top with an architectural roadmap to the Promised Land at an exploitable industry inflection point. If the purportedly game-changing next-generation platform scheme succeeds, Chambers will be rich, even more fiendishly rich than he already is; [...]

Cisco, VMware & the California Project

Replacing – for the moment at least – the speculation that Cisco is interested in acquiring VMware is the rumor that Cisco and VMware are working together on a server code named the California Project. The rumor has made its way to financial circles where Samuel Wilson of JMP Securities, claiming to have “multiple industry [...]

Cisco Pushes ‘City-as-a-Service’

Cisco has taken a piece of a really ambitious grid-turned-cloud company in Oz called Majitek that intends to turn all the devices and systems in an entire city into money-making utility services. This, it appears, is “intelligent urbanization,” especially in emerging markets, and is supposed to make for better city management, better quality of life [...]

GNU Sues Cisco

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has sued Cisco for copyright infringement. It says Cisco’s Linksys division uses GNU code and won’t honor the GPL 2 and LGPL 2 and 2.1 licenses that the GNU software’s distributed under and give customers the source code to the Cisco-modified embedded firmware that would of course let users in [...]