Ken Cheng the VP of Service Provider Products, Brocade stopped by on theCube to discuss some announcements and the value of SDN to the service provider business.  Having announced support for OpenFlow and SDN back on Brocade’s Tech Day 2010, Cheng states that SDN is now poised to fundamentally change networking in a profound way, ...

Go Daddy is apparently pretty sorry for the outage earlier this week.  An email that apparently comes from Scott Wagner, CEO of Go Daddy was sent to its customers yesterday. We let you down and we know it.  We take our responsibilities – and the trust you place in us – very seriously.  I cannot ...

Josh Snowhorn, the VP and GM of CyrusOne sat in on theCube during Brocade Tech Day to share news about the company and their alignment with Brocade.  CyrusOne is a global mission-critical focused enterprise datacenter that is the largest provider of datacenter services to the oil and gas industry.  The company has chosen Brocade’s MLXe ...

The new iPhone 5 is lacking a simultaneous voice and data feature on Sprint and Verizon networks. Customers and certainly some technophiles are going to be shocked as blogger Chris Ziegler at The Verge discovered and reported today. A Verizon spokesperson provided this comment on the matter: “The iPhone 5 was designed to allow customers ...

The proposition is simple – build an app for the new Kindle Fire HD and get exposure. That’s exactly what Amazon is proposing to the app developer community. The benefits are plain to see, to start -you have the Amazon Kindle Fire platform that has captured 22% of the tablet market in just a year’s ...

Bigger, faster, better batteries, cheaper – these represent the new features that roll out with each new smartphone release these days.  Today the iPhone 5 announcement has gained all the press.  It remains to be seen however if the iPhone 5 will prove to be the game-changing device that some are expecting.  Prominent analysts project ...

High drama has been the name of the game with the 12 million stolen Apple UDID fiasco. Anonymous claimed, in detail, how the information was stolen, purportedly from the FBI. The FBI vehemently denied being the source of the leak, as did Apple. Now it turns out an app publisher, Blue Toad was the source ...

Netflix is adopting the services of Sumo Logic, a cloud-based Log Management and Analytics service. As the world’s leading Internet streaming subscription service for enjoying movies and TV programs, Netflix has more than 27 million subscribers. The announcement comes after Netflix completed an extensive testing of competing solutions in order to address the multi-terabyte challenges ...

GoDaddy and its reported 48 million domain names were hit with what is reported as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack. Responsibility for the attack has been claimed by a single member of Anonymous, “AnonymousOwn3r”. While the extent of the outage is not known, its effects are clearly pretty extensive and still being experienced. ...

AT&T is leading the march on hybrid cloud deployments. In recent coverage of AT&T at VMworld 2012 on theCube, the company’s service features and tactical advantages were discussed. The takeaway was that the company’s network-based cloud service utilizes both the strength of the built-in network and enterprise-grade cloud services. A recent report features research that solidifies ...