Archives for February 2018

Comeback kid AMD announced on its quarterly earnings call that it intends to have a silicon fix for the variant 2 of the Spectre exploit, the only one of the Meltdown and Spectre exploits it’s vulnerable to, by 2019 with its new Zen 2 core. The company also said it will ramp up GPU card […]

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News 2 Feb, 2018 Roland Moore-Colyer The search giant had its first $1bn quarter in cloud revenue

Today Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced the completion of its acquisition of BroadSoft (NASDAQ: BSFT). BroadSoft accelerates Cisco’s cloud strategy and collaboration portfolio by adding the industry’s leading cloud calling and contact center solutions to Cisco’s leading calling, meetings, messaging, customer care, hardware endpoints and services portfolio. …

News 2 Feb, 2018 Roland Moore-Colyer Cloud infrastructure appetites show no sign of slowing down

News 2 Feb, 2018 Clare Hopping The platform will be crucial to Cisco and Google's future hybrid offering

News 2 Feb, 2018 Clare Hopping Spending survey finds large businesses will opt for large public providers

News 1 Feb, 2018 Dale Walker Expert believes innovation has been key to Microsoft's success

If portions of enterprise data-center networks have no need to communicate directly with the internet, then why do we configure routers so every system on the network winds up with internet access by default? Part of the reason is that many enterprises use an internet perimeter firewall performing port address translation (PAT) with a default […]