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How VMware Embraced Its Open Source Nemesis
VMware just spent $1.26 billion to secure its place in the future of computer networking. But in acquiring the swashbuckling Silicon Valley startup Nicira, the virtualization giant is also shifting...
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Networks | Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa
The photos appeared on the web in late February. Taken with a smartphone, they were a bit washed out and a little blurry in places, but you could easily make out the name on the back of the mystery...
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Networks | Cisco Wants to Drive Your Car … Onto the Internet
Cisco is just the latest tech giant with designs the automotive world. Microsoft has long offered a version of its Windows operating system for overseeing all the services inside your car, Google has...
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Networks | Cisco Dumps Chinese Firm Over Alleged Iranian Spy Gear Sales
Cisco has ended its seven-year partnership with the Chinese hardware manufacturer ZTE following an internal investigation into whether ZTE sold Cisco networking gear to Iran, according to a report...
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Networks | How Will Cisco Embrace Virtual Networking? It’s Complicated
Cidr is a networking term that dates back to 1993, but last week, it received new life when Tucker and Cisco announced the acquisition of a tiny company called vCider. The "v" stands for virtual. The...
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Networks | Cisco VP Vows to Make Hunting Secret-Leaker His ‘Hobby’
Someone inside Cisco is leaking corporate documents, and however innocuous these documents may seem, Cisco vice president Mike Quinn has vowed to hunt down the perpetrator. His threats are worth taking...
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Networks | You Can’t Have Google’s Pluto Switch, But You Can Have This
When photos of Google's mystery "Pluto Switch" appeared on the web early last year, it seemed like something from another world -- and not just because Google called it the Pluto Switch. But as alien...
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Cloud | Welcome to the Mind-Bending World of Cloud-on-Cloud Computing
John Engates is the chief technology officer at Rackspace, and even he had trouble wrapping his mind around the way the company runs its most important of technologies. Rackspace, you see, runs its...
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Tech Titans Plot to Reprogram Internet of the Future
Raymie Stata, the former chief technology officer at Yahoo, says that a massive computer network is kinda like the old 15-puzzle game, that brain-teaser where you’re trying to rearrange 15 sliding...
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Cloud | Why Open Source Software Is Like Burning Man (Only Better)
Monty Taylor is wearing blue jeans, a corduroy jacket, a pair of pink-rimmed sunglasses, and a T-shirt that says "What the F**K Is OpenStack?"
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