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Enterprise Hardware Spotlight

Brocade Execs Offer Look Under OpenScript Engine's Hood
Can customers predict the future? Brocade is suggesting that as it launches its latest innovations in its Brocade ServerIron ADX Series of cloud-optimized application delivery switches.

Brocade Opens Up Cloud-Optimized App Delivery Switches
OpenScript is being launched by Brocade for its ServerIron ADX cloud-optimized app delivery switches, offering an open platform for predicting network impacts before scripts go into production.

Cisco Pushes 100-Gigabit Ethernet Capability into Switch Portfolio
Cisco has updated its switch lineup with 100- and 40-gigabit Ethernet capabilities, a key element of its strategy to help customers meet the demands of cloud computing and the "resulting data deluge."

Mobile Enterprise Spotlight

Mobile Phone Growth Slides In Fourth Quarter
Mobile phone shipments on a global basis reached 427.4 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011 -- a tepid 6.1 percent rise from the year-earlier period, IDC says, blaming it on a weak economy.

Smartphones Overtake Computers and Tablets
Move over, computers and tablets. For the first time, annual worldwide shipments of smartphones are larger than PCs and tablets. Smartphone shipments rose 63 percent last year, to 487.7 million units.

Review: Super Bowl Online Decent, Won't Replace TV
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