OpenFlow is an emerging technology to help networking to be as agile as the rest of a virtualized environment. HP is one of a number of switch suppliers who are offering OpenFlow-based products. Forward and backward compatibility is one of HP’s differentiators.

HP recently launched three new members of their of OpenFlow-enabled network switches, the HP 3500, 5400 and 8200 series switches. HP’s Saar Gillai, Vice President, Advanced Technology Group, and Chief Technology Officer, HP Networking and Charles Clark, Distinguished Technologist, HP Networking took the time to discuss HP’s philosophy behind the company’s network switch portfolio.  » view  

CIO — Cloud computing is still in the testing and experimental space for many organizations, but its benefits are becoming clear to many. Cloud is rapidly shifting from a world of hype and possibilities to one of practical application, and CIOs that haven’t already considered what cloud means for their business need to step up the pace.

That was the consensus of six panelists brought together by information exchange solutions specialist IntraLinks in a roundtable discussion Thursday morning at the Gabarron Foundation in New York City.  » view  

Alcatel-Lucent this week will unveil a new Ethernet switch for enterprise campus networks that is designed to extend voice, data and video convergence to the wiring closet and access tier.

The company’s OmniSwitch 6450 comes in 10-, 24-, and 48-port Fast and Gigabit Ethernet configurations. The 24- and 48-port versions are targeted at the network edge and wiring closet access environments, while the 10-port version is for branch office, SMB and managed access applications.  » view  

Add one significant — and different — title to more than 30 current and former employees of News International, the News Corp. subsidiary that publishes Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers, who have been arrested in a phone hacking scandal.

The Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that Scotland Yard had arrested six people, including Mark Hanna, the media company’s director of group security since 2009. While details are limited so far — there has been no statement from law enforcement on what role, if any, Hanna may have played in the phone hacking — like the others this week, he was arrested, “on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice,” according to the Guardian.  » view  

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Microsoft has been quietly facing the truth in the mobile market by making its apps available on other mobile platforms, namely iOS and Android.

In the past two weeks, Microsoft has announced iOS-based versions of information gathering app OneNote and consumer cloud service, SkyDrive. In addition, a mobile client for Lync 2010, Microsoft’s unified communications suite for corporate instant-messaging, audio/video conferencing and voice-over-IP telephony, is now available for Windows Phone and will be “available shortly” for iOS and Android, the company stated in blog post. Can Sharepoint be far behind?  » view  

IDG News Service (London Bureau) — ZTE has put quad-core processors in a smartphone, the Era, and a tablet, the PF100, which were among a plethora of new Android-based smartphones and tablets it launched at Mobile World Congress on Monday.

The ZTE Era runs Android 4.0 and has an Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, which is also used in the HTC One X and the LG Optimus 4X HD. However, the version used on the ZTE phone runs at 1.3GHz as opposed to 1.5GHz in the other two models.

The Era is 7.8 millimeters thick, and has a 4.3-inch screen with a resolution of 960 by 540 pixels, compared to the 4.7-inch high-definition screens used by HTC and LG phones.  » view  

Mizuho Securities USA’s Joanna Makris today reiterated a Buy rating on shares of Cisco Systems (CSCO) and a $24 price target, writing that the company is taking a renewed interest in spinning its own application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), as evinced by the announcement Friday Cisco intends to purchase Santa Clara, California-based startup LightWire for $271 million in cash and incentives.

LightWire produces integrated optical interconnects on a single semiconductor for networking equipment.

Cisco will probably use the LightWire transceiver technology to make its own optical modules for Cisco’s gear, she thinks, and Cisco will also probably use its home-grown ASICs for future product in the company’s data center “fabric” products and in its “Nexus” line of switches.  » view  

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Prepare the Cisco 7940G Unified IP phone to be used by connecting provided phone cables, peripheral equipment and power cords to the acceptable ports located beneath the phone. The Cisco IP phone options power, handset, headset and network choices that may not work properly if connected to the incorrect port. Connect peripherals and then power to begin using the Cisco 7940G IP phone.  » view