Opinion

MTBF, MTTR and SLAs, oh my

While MTBF and MTTR for broadband are much higher than MPLS, having multiple diverse links addresses the key issue of higher uptime; MPLS's "better" SLA doesn't actually deliver what enterprises care about.

Who will be the big winner in Las Vegas and who is just rolling the dice?

Who will be the winners in the desert?

SNL shatters Google Glass

Weekend Update crew poke fun at the next great distraction: Google Glass

Let’s train our testers early by offering college majors in Software Testing

Rather than spend the time training new hires, why don't colleges let students learn how to test software before they enter the workforce?

Steve Jobs ordered Apple ads off Fox News

As Windows 8 struggles, where is the leadership?

Windows 8 desperately needs a cheerleader, but the group's leader is AWOL.

Time is now for Internet retail tax

Enterprise vendors: There’s no such thing as product secrecy any more

Bottle sent to say sorry about trademark whine

Using Bash’s regular expressions

Bash has quietly made scripting on Unix systems a lot easier with its own regular expressions. If you're still leaning on grep and sed commands to get your scripts to do what you need from them, maybe it's time to look into what bash can do on its o

Cisco’s OpenFlow basher jumps to Big Switch

Fantasy is reality for Prashant Gandhi

Digium announces two new phone systems

The real news from Intel: Renee James takes over No. 2 spot

New president could shake up the company.

New CEO Brian Krzanich could boost Intel’s hopes in tablet market

How the two new executive announcements could help Intel improve its standing in the highly competitive tablet market.

Geico now has a Siri-like app for that … but why?

Nuance technology behind insurance company’s ‘interactive voice assistant’

Remembering the little desk lamp that could: Pixar’s “Luxo, Jr. “

Computer History Museum celebrates two-minute movie that started a revolution

Star power smackdown: Interop’s Cisco & Juniper execs vs. CTIA’s JLo & Ashton Kutcher

Back-to-Back Las Vegas tech shows look to shine in their own ways

Interop Las Vegas 2013 Live Blog

Best (and most importantly, Worst) of Interop Las Vegas

Cisco extends Developer Network to include application experience

The new addition is an important step for the Cisco Developer Network.

Security response over security prevention? Fiddlesticks!

While attacks will succeed, we must concentrate on prevention

Pneuron, an outstanding enterprise data infrastructure solution

Pneuron's eponymous data access and massaging solution is truly enterprise-scale.

Pneuron, an outstanding enterprise data infrastructure solution

Pneuron's eponymous data access and massaging solution is truly enterprise-scale

Pneuron, an outstanding enterprise data infrastructure solution

A video and a blog post bolster the case against alien visitors

Why can’t we get a decent picture? And what on Earth would motivate them to come?

Microsoft’s new idea to steal Android users is a good one

Microsoft's 'Switch to Windows Phone' Android app will scan a device for installed apps and suggest equivalent or alternative apps for Windows Phone.

From physical to virtual to cloud and everywhere in between

Cisco enterprise boss reports on programmability

Catalyst 3850 in an academic OpenFlow exercise; its chip on the Cat 4K later this year; and why we're more like Juniper

Seagate’s Central hits a home run in the NAS game

Open Build Service 2.4 adds Arch support

An update to the Open Build Service, part of the openSUSE project, makes building new packages for Linux a lot easier.

IBM premiers world’s smallest movie – starring 10,000 atoms

IBM says the stop action “A Boy and His Atom,” has even been certified by Guinness World Records organization as the smallest film on the planet