The Lippis Report

In this Lippis Report Research Note we offer our 2010 top ten predictions for the biggest issues that the IT industry will confront. Our predictions span technology, industry structure and IT budgets...

By Cisco Systems Coca-Cola Bottling Company adopted 10 Gb Ethernet, consolidating from 80 servers to 4 and reducing cabling costs...

By IDC Today more than ever, data centers need a network architecture that can fluidly meet the needs for adapting to business requirements...

By Force10 Networks Network security typically requires pulling together policies at Layer 2 and Layer 3 and at each topology layer to prevent malicious or inadvertent usage...

By Cisco Systems Mobility has become a business expectation. IT is coming face to face with an increasingly savvy user community which is demanding the wireless performance required to deliver a ubiquitous computing experience...

By ABIresearch As sales of IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN equipment have increased over the past year, there has been a general outcry from some vendors who sell WLAN products exclusively for IT managers; they want to move to all wireless networks...

In this 3-minute vidcast I review Cisco’s Borderless Network Branch Office solution, the ISR G2, and explain what is so special about the ISR G2 from an evolutionary perspective on branch office networking. Enjoy. Nick Visit the Link ShareThis

HP is planning to acquire 3Com for $2.7B to bolster its converged infrastructure position...

By Force10 Networks The data center has been, and continues to be, one of the key resources of innovation, helping businesses become more agile and efficient while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) — as well as being the focal point for green IT initiatives. ...

H3C Resilient Virtual Switching Fabric By 3Com/H3C 3Com’s enterprise H3C switches make use of an innovative technology called Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) to enable the creation of a resilient virtual switching fabric. ...

Cloud computing has become of great interest to providers, business and IT leaders as the economic downturn forced review of business processes and IT’s automation of them. ...

There has been huge interest in Borderless Networks since Lippis Report 134. The following are links to Cisco’s site which cover Borderless Networks and its ISR G2 announcement. There is content here from other industry analysts and of course from Cisco as well. ...

By Arista Networks The adoption of virtualization in datacenters creates the need for a new class of networks designed to support elasticity of resource allocation, increasingly mobile workloads and the shift to production virtual workloads, requiring maximum availability...

By Nick Lippis A new era in Enterprise IT is emerging. It’s an era born out of systemic business efficiency planning prompted by the efforts of business leaders to reduce corporate spending as revenues declined during the market crash of 2008. ...