Jim Duffy

Articles by Jim Duffy

Cisco downsizing on the sly through outsourcing?

'Limited restructuring' as Cisco sources call them, are a way for the company to cut costs by reducing workforce in small, incremental moves without having to publicly announce or disclose the actions in compliance with government labour regulations

Juniper’s data center answer to Cisco: Stratus Project

The technology, which includes storage and switching, aims to alleviate common problems in data centres, including latency, power, cost and complexity. Find out how this fares against Cisco

Force 10, Turin Networks merging

Henry Wasik of Turin will become president and CEO of the combined firm, which will carry the Force 10 name. How the companies fare in the 10 Gigabit Ethernet market

Foundry stockholders OK merger with Brocade

Six months after the US$2.6 billion merger was announced, Foundry has approved its acquisition by storage vendor Brocade. Find out how it will affect the vendors

Cisco exec rationalizes data center invasion

Rumour has it the network equipment maker will unveil a blade server system next year. Find out what company officials revealed at the C-Scape conference

Cisco planning significant data center assault

The company next year plans to take on IBM and HP in the data centre space and is working on a unified communications product that would let IT managers configure security and quality of service policies for external partners. A roundup of the C-Scape analyst conference

Cisco is big tease about ‘Big Bang’ switch upgrade

At its analyst conference in California, company executives gave a sneak peek into Cisco

Cisco to broaden unified communications package

At C-Scape, the network equipment maker said an upcoming version of Unified Communications System will include SIP and will let companies configure security settings for companies they trust. Get a sneak peak.

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