Recent articles by John Dix
March 08, 2010
If HP's recently posted first quarter results are any indication of larger industry trends, things are indeed beginning to look better. Sales in the quarter ended Jan. 31 were up 8% to $31 billion compared to the same period a year ago, and profits jumped 25% to $2.3 billion. In fact, HP is now predicting it will grow 6% to 7% this year.
February 22, 2010
What changes when bandwidth is virtually unlimited? That's what Google is hoping to find out with its recently announced plans to deliver 1Gbps to up to 500,000 homes in an ultra-high speed Fiber to the Home (FTTH) experiment.
February 08, 2010
Cautious optimism is the anecdotal sentiment we hear most often when discussing the health and demeanor of enterprise IT, and data in a recent Network World technology priorities study bears that out.
February 08, 2010
Juniper Networks has always been about high performance and, since it straddles the carrier and enterprise markets, has an interesting perspective on where these worlds intersect. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Kim Perdikou, EVP and GM of the Infrastructure Products Group, and David Yen, EVP and GM of the Fabric and Switching Technologies Business Group, to discuss converging needs, tech trends and the company's Stratus project, a single-layer network architecture.
January 18, 2010
Virtualization technology essentially reshaped IT in the last decade, but we drank so deep and long at the fountain that we enter the new decade with something of a hangover, and lots of fuzzy questions about what we have wrought.
January 12, 2010
Despite the fact that the company's name is short for wireless electricity, Eric Giler, CEO of WiTricity, is quick to point out that isn't exactly what the company does. It only looks like that. Giler is the first business exec brought into this 16-person company, which is trying to commercialize the tech developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Marin Soljacic.
November 02, 2009
As a 13 year Cisco veteran, John McCool, senior vice president and General Manager of Cisco's Data Center Switching and Services Group, has seen a boatload of change.
September 10, 2009
Marius Haas is senior vice president and general manager of HP's ProCurve Networking business, which was recently aligned with the company's server, storage and services businesses under HP's Technology Solutions Group, creating an approximately $45 billion unit. Haas, who previously served as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, is charged with shifting the network business into overdrive. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Haas to talk about the market and his plans.
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