A growing airport reinvented its network troubleshooting methodology and approach to IP address management by scrapping a network management product that wasn't working out and replacing it with SolarWinds' Orion product suite.

Analysts estimate 30% of today’s data center workloads are being virtualized and this number continues grow. As such, the need to provide the same intrusion protection system or IPS security for applications in virtualized and non-virtualized data centers is a must. In short applications on virtualized servers need the same protections as applications running on non-virtualized servers. To meet that end 3Com has launched its Secure Network Fabric and TippingPoint’s Secure Virtualization Framework.

Trefis submits: Trefis analysis for Cisco (CSCO). Click to see full analysis. Cisco competes with Juniper (NYSE:JNPR) in the router business and has the leading market share in all three categories of routers (enterprise, core, edge). Cisco sells routers primarily to large businesses and internet service providers that use them to manage the flow of data (such as emails) throughout their networks or through the internet.Complete Story »

CA aquired cloud startup 3Tera in a move that is not characteristic of the company. For one thing, it reportedly paid a lot of money for a 20-employee firm, somewhere around $90 million, and CA rarely pays a premium. To Chris O'Malley, executive VP, the purchase is emblematic of a new day at CA.

Yesterday RSA announced new controls for virtual infrastructure security in cloud environments. Concerns regarding security and compliance have been primary factors preventing large enterprises from placing production workloads on shared virtual infrastructure in the cloud. Yesterday?s announcement and proof-of-concept didn't solve all of public cloud?s security woes, but it brought us closer to a practical solution....

Have you noticed that when vendors talk about the cloud, the conversation often revolves around their own product or service? You may come to believe that the ?cloud? is defined by a specific set of equipment and software....

Vizioncore's management tool vFoglight will work with Microsoft's virtualization platform Hyper-V by the middle of the year and with Xen from Citrix by the end of the year, the company said Wednesday at Cebit....

Carpathia Hosting and Citrix Systems have combined resources to offer a XenServer-based set of cloud services, called Carpathia InstantOn. ...

In two weeks, I'll be in Santa Clara at the industry's newest event, Cloud Connect. I'm chairing a track focused on Cloudonomics, a term I coined a couple of years ago to connote the complex economics of using cloud infrastructure, platform, and software services. There are a number of great technical tracks planned, but mine is focused on what I consider to be the most important question: "Why do cloud?" ...

The speaker lineup at this year's annual RSA Security Conference and Expo, underway this week in San Francisco, is packing some serious federal heat.