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As the UK’s largest supplier in the refurbished Cisco market, Hardware.com is now offering customers the opportunity to view Cisco refurbished prices on the Hardware.com website. With a refurbished inventory vastly larger than other Cisco’s suppliers, Hardware.com has decided to provide clearer pricing transparency by showing both the new and refurbished prices on the website.
Network management applications now have the capability of integrating their network management systems with social media interfaces via Smartphones and tablets.
Cisco has been going through a rough time of late, particularly in terms of its product lines, including getting back to basics – producing switches and routers.
Cisco has been through the wringer recently; poor results, too many acquisitions, stretched by too many markets, being sued for PoE patent infringements, erosion of margins in core switches and routers as well as a reliance on the public sector – all this has led to a real lack of confidence in the industry leader.
Latest results for the first quarter for 2011 in the relative market shares for the core routers, edge routers and switches, Ethernet services, Edge routers and carrier Ethernet switches have s
Force10 announces S7000 and ZettaScale core switching products.
Cisco has been in a state of navel-gazing recently, since their admission that mistakes have been made in the business strategy.
Cisco acquired five big companies over the past 12 months in a number of strategic moves that will enable it to grow into new markets; the most recent is the intention to acquire newScale, a software provider that allows companies to deploy cloud services within their businesses.
John Chambers, Cisco’s CEO, outlined their priorities for the coming year or so in a recent broadcast. The priorities are collaboration, datacentre virtualisation, cloud computing, business architectures and video services.
Cisco has announced that it is working on a complicated security architecture called SecureX that will apparently provide a ‘context-aware’ way of safeguarding networks that are under security pressure from virtualisation, Smartphones and tablets.
The question you have to ask yourself is; can your Cisco Catalyst platform deliver the demands that today’s datacentres need and can they do so in the future?
Cisco’s revenues are being affected by a strategic shift away from switches and routers towards new markets; as Cisco needs to increase its future growth.
In order to handle the huge volumes of ‘bursty’ network traffic, ultra low latency 10GbE switching functionality, high performance and Layer 3 richness are critical. The Force10 Networks S4810 switch delivers just that.
The Cisco Catalyst 3560 and 2960 C-Series in compact form factors are designed to extend connectivity to deployments outside the wiring closet.
The new ‘environmentally friendly’ generation of Cisco Catalyst 2960 S-series switches are now available.
Now 10G is becoming the dominant player in the Ethernet switch market, what will be the next stage – 40G, 100G and then Terabit Ethernet?
Latest research indicates that the service provider router and switch market including IP edge routers, IP core routers, carrier Ethernet switches and ATM switches has increased 21% from the same third quarter last year.
The future of IT is based on the integration of networking, servers and storage, so Oracle might want to go on the acquisition trial in order to achieve this.
Data centre innovation is not just about the latest HP G7 ProLiant servers, Cisco routers and switches and all manner of network hardware, including server virtualisation and power management, but is about saving energy through innovation.
In a global study by Cisco, 60% of workers believe there is no longer a need for an office in order to be productive – work is what you do, not where you are.
The new Force10 Networks S-series 10/40 GbE top-of-rack switch and 40 GbE for the Exascale care switch/router is the solution the industry has been waiting for. The 40 Gigabit Ethernet core-to-edge solution will increase performance to the converged datacentre.
As organisations have become more competitive and have access to similar information, they are turning to the massive amounts of company data to analyse that information to discover trends, statistics and decision-making results.
Analysts looking at Silicon Valley have downgraded Cisco stock as they believe that revenues for Cisco routing and switching are too closely related to the general economic growth prospects.
Juniper recently announced that it was pushing software development on its Junos platform, endeavouring to create a software partner ecosystem.
According to the latest figures the Ethernet switch market grew 35% in the second quarter 2010 compared to the same quarter last year.
The economy and the importance of IT have got caught in a business dilemma. Power is essential to run data centres, however the cost of power is outpacing the hardware, but the mantra of ‘do more, with less’ still prevails.
Cisco promises less power usage with new power management features in its Catalyst 3750-X stackable access switch. The new Cisco switch pools power among switches in a stack and also supports PoE+.
Cisco’s fourth quarter results have broken the $40 billion revenue barrier for the first time, with a 27% revenue growth for the final quarter of its financial year.
Consumer gadgets are getting all the attention these days; however there are some new products and technologies that will solve problems in the datacentre.
Force10 Networks has announced that its newest S-series Top-of-Rack (ToR) access switch is now available from Hardware.com.
The ongoing march and dominance of YouTube and recent high profile launch of Google TV has lead to a lot of general speculation about the impact of online video on internet traffic in the coming years. With the recent release of its Visual Networking Index forecast, Cisco has attempted to put a figure on that.
Although this story has been in the news, on and off for a while, it is still making the headlines – the possibility that Cisco rival, Brocade, may be bought by IBM, Dell and Juniper.
HP has announced data centre switching and security products which will simplify server connectivity and protect core data as network hardware infrastructure becomes converged.
There are a number of battles going on in the network hardware market, mostly to do with technological advances, and one of those is between Cisco and Juniper.
The Smartpac Repair team continue their expansion with the recruitment of Andy Kemp as a UK Repair Centre Consultant.
Supply chain problems are still afflicting Cisco’s customers with regard to getting hold of run-rate network hardware equipment.
Many CIOs and CTOs believe that the data centre network is at a critical point in time with regard to server virtualisation – it’s about flexibility, agility & open standards and it won’t be solved quickly or easily
CiCisco's latest results show sales up by 27% year-on year in the third quarter, ending May 1st 2010.
Hardware.com is announcing its backing of Force10 Networks as a real alternative to Cisco in the network switch marketplace. Force10 is a pioneer in 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching and routing.
Cisco is still very much on the acquisition trail, signalling its intent to buy CoreOptics – a designer of digital signal processing solutions for high-speed optical networking applications, so that transmission technology keeps up with IP traffic increases.
100 Gigabit Ethernet will become the standard in 2010 and the Terabit Ethernet is being planned for 2015.
Both Forrester Research and Gartner have revised their estimates upwards for IT network hardware and software spending in 2010 and 2011.
Businesses that are planning to upgrade, refresh or expand their network hardware are still experiencing long delays in getting hold of Cisco network equipment.
Juniper is set to buy Ankeena, a software company that works with Juniper routers and switches, in order to optimise media content delivery. The take over bid is purported to be worth just under $100 million.
HP, Force10 and Juniper are three of many manufacturers in the network hardware arena that are offering different approaches and demonstrations of their capability in the traditional Cisco dominated market place.
Every day we are getting calls from companies, both large and small, which are desperate for Cisco network hardware, as they simply cannot get hold of Cisco equipment as the lead times from Cisco and their channel partners are too lengthy.
The split of Cisco and HP from their preferred partner status may have some advantages for network managers and the competition alike.
Cisco is developing a software upgrade for the Nexus 7000 switch that will enable easier movement of loads and virtual machines across multiple data centres.
Cisco admits that their supply of network hardware equipment is causing industry and channel problems in terms of fulfilling orders on time.
Latest research from the IT market analysis company, Forrester, indicates that tech spending will increase 8.1% globally compared to 2009 – rising above $1.6 trillion for 2010.
HP’s acquisition of 3Com, scheduled for early 2010, for $2.7 billion in cash is in direct competition to Cisco, and blurs the market of who dominates what – server or networking infrastructure.
The new virtual computing environment coalition, called Acadia, will accelerate virtualisation and private cloud infrastructures.
Hardware.com has checked a few run-rate Cisco routers and switches on the official Cisco lead times tool, and for some of the most popular items, the lead times are now up to four months, with some even in excess of that!
Emerson Electric, the company that has power, climate control and other automation businesses appliances and tools, will now have hardware and software with the buy out of Avocent.
Power over Ethernet technology integrates power and data across standard network cabling and provides flexible and scalable networking infrastructure for growth and efficiency.
The functionality of switches has changed over recent years to a point now that they are also firewalls, load balancers, they can access control lists and perform network security tasks. Virtualisation is fully on the IT agenda and as such the performance, management and implications for IT resourcing of virtual switches is a real concern.
Sebastien Bourgoin has recently joined Hardware.com as the Group Repair Sales Manager and is the driving force behind the next level of growth for Smartpac Repair. Sebastien comes to Hardware.com from a repair sales and maintenance background, and before that he was a Hardware.com Account Manager for France.
In a recent research report from Rhetorik, titled IT and Telecoms Investment in 2009, Future Plans and Trends, substantial budgets have been revealed in a number of key product and service areas. The areas of investment were laptops/notebooks, desktop PCs, servers and the core network products of routers, switches and hubs.
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