James Niccolai

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Sun fires back at Cisco with blade network switch

The Virtual Network Express Module, does the job of an aggregation switch, managing traffic between the blade servers and a central 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch. Find out about Sun

Sun on the spot as IBM bid is rejected

With no other suitor likely to step forward, Sun will probably have to accept an offer from IBM eventually, even if it means swallowing less favourable terms, an industry watcher says

Sun renews cloud services market push

Sun Microsystems' fresh cloud services offerings places the company in direct competition with Amazon Web Services

Microsoft, Citrix gang up on VMware

Citrix and Microsoft will manage each other's virtualization platforms in a bid to compete better with market leader VMware

Cloud security fears overblown

Concerns about the security of cloud computing services may be overstated, according to panelists at IDC's Cloud Computing Forum

Ballmer sets loose Windows 7 public beta

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched the beta during his speech at the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, along with several partnerships with Dell and others

Second undersea break stalls cable repairs

Efforts to restore normal voice and Internet communications between Asia and Europe are hampered as a submarine cable, already undergoing repairs, is damaged for the second time

Mozilla security chief signs off from Web browser fir

Window Snyder, who held the kooky job title 'chief security something-or-other' at Mozilla announced she's leaving the company. But she won't tell yet what she intends to do next

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