NETWORKING

Cisco’s planned acquisition of Acacia Communications took a litigious turn this week as the networking giant has gone to court to keep the optical technologies vendor from terminating the purchase. Cisco filed for a temporary restraining order in Delaware Chancery Court Jan. 8 to prevent Acacia from terminating its acquisition agreement with the company. The move followed an Acacia statement issued earlier on Jan. 8 that stated the company “has elected to terminate its merger…

Now that it’s clear remote work is here to stay, what are the technology priorities for IT departments charged with keeping the enterprise workforce productive and secure? In a December report, research firm Gartner said it expects 48% of employees will work from home, even after the pandemic, compared with 30% pre-pandemic. Forrester, too, expects the remote worker population to remain elevated. “While there is no clear end point to the pandemic yet, the number…

Yesterday — Jan. 6, 2021 — was a day that will live in infamy for the US. Rioters, urged on by President Donald Trump, successfully attacked the US Capitol.  For weeks, President Trump had been spreading false claims that the election had somehow been stolen from him. Then, President Trump tweeted: “I hope the Democrats … are looking at the thousands of people pouring into DC. They won’t stand for a landslide election victory to…

If you’ve noticed components are hard to get these days, you are not alone. The supply of computing components can get a little tight around the end of the year but this year is especially bad, much of it due to Covid-19-related issues. Intel spent much of 2020 struggling with CPU shortages. In the latter half of the year it was hit with chipset shortages, with the B460 and H410 chipsets reportedly out of stock…

(A hurricane devastated an island that held two data centers controlling mission-critical systems for an American biotech company. They flew a backup expert with four decades of experience to the island on a corporate jet to save the day. This is the story of the challenges he faced and how he overcame them. He spoke on the condition of anonymity, so we call him Ron, the island Atlantis, his employer Initech, and we don’t name…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces that Sam Burd, president of Dell Technologies’ Client Solutions Group, will participate as a speaker at the J.P. Morgan 19th Annual Tech/Auto Forum during CES 2021 in a virtual fireside chat on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 1:50 p.m. CT / 2:50 p.m. ET. A live webcast and a replay of the webcast will be available on Dell Technologies’ Investor Relations page at investors.delltechnologies.com….

Mobile devices have changed how we work. IoT empowers people to control the physical world with a few taps on an app. And there’s no question that cloud services have delivered new business agility, giving workers and customers access to convenient digital services, applications and data from anywhere. Cloud services have allowed IT to manage data and applications more cost effectively. But for all of the conveniences of cloud, mobile and IoT, the reality is…

By Keerti Melkote, President and Founder of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company Two significant trends have dominated networking technology during the last decade: the increased demand for mobility and the movement of applications and data to the cloud. Taken together, these revolutions have completely transformed the IT landscape – from the mobility era, to the cloud era.  This shift is now preparing us for the next phase: the adoption of the Intelligent Edge in…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Jan. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — News summary  Work smarter than ever before with the industry’s most intelligent1, secure2 and sustainable3 business PCs 5G-capable PCs and Microsoft Teams certified displays unlock enhanced connectivity and collaboration Dell elevates sustainability standards with first commercial PCs to use bioplastics from tree waste Built-in low blue light and security technology enhance and secure the customer experience Full story  Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) unveiled new products and software that…

Linux provides two very useful tools for diagnosing network troubles: arp and ip neigh. The arp command is a tool that allows you to display the IP-address-to-MAC-address mappings that a system has built so that it doesn’t have to fetch the same information repeatedly for systems it communicates with. In doing this, arp allows you to discover and display details about systems on your network. The other is the arp command’s younger brother, ip neigh,…