Nortel could emerge from bankruptcy as a top UC vendor, says TechTarget:
Nortel Networks’ bankruptcy may ultimately doom its strategic unified communications alliance with Microsoft, but the Canadian company still has the potential to remain a viable vendor for enterprises
Of course, Nortel were a key part of Microsoft’s OCS strategy, providing the Linkage to the old [...]

Cloud provider Joyent is building out their infrastructure to support growing demand for cloud computing services (for more on that topic see longer posts here). Their Tier 1 internet connectivity is now managed by f5 BigIP load-balancers (handling 2-10Gbps of traffic) with Force10 switches providing the Ethernet infrastructure. More proof that it might be time to think about 100Gig.
“Cloud computing [...]

It sounds a little odd, and it is a bit of serendipity… I’d had been researching the current generation of management tools, both commercial and those of the open source / free variety and today I hear that F5 Networks have a new partnership (hot on the heals of the one with Secerno for database security earlier [...]

An interesting development from UK database security company Secerno and US vendor F5 Networks. They have built a solution that provides an integrated approach to network and application level security. F5’s BIG-IP application security manager can now pass information to Secerno’s DataWall product, alerting it to web-based security violations, which DataWall can then act on [...]

F5 Networks (recently on Business Tech Feed: F5 Networks - A Case of Applications and the Network) has partnered with Data Domain to deliver an intelligent data management solution. Data Domain are best known for their data deplucation systems, and are part of F5’s technology alliance program.
The joint solution targets the data-at-rest problem, by moving static and archive [...]