Alcatel-Lucent pushing into the enterprise in North America

Alcatel-Lucent enterprise chief on pushing into the enterprise in North America
Shamus McGillicuddy, News Director A year ago the Alcatel-Lucent enterprise division was on the auction block as the French technology company looked to generate cash for investment in its more profitable service provider infrastructure business. A deal with British private equity firm Premira Advisors for the enterprise division never materialized, and the company scaled back its plan to exit the market, selling just its Genesys contact center business to Permira (a deal that closed last month). Now Alcatel-Lucent is rededicating itself to making a go of its enterprise division. READ THIS NEWS STORY. Dell acquires SonicWall...and a next-generation firewall With this week's acquisition of network security vendor SonicWall, Dell has collected a next-generation firewall for the comprehensive enterprise data center strategy it is assembling to compete head-to-head with Cisco Systems, HP and IBM. READ THIS NEWS STORY. Brocade HyperEdge manages the campus network as one giant stack For years, network engineers have relied on the switch stack in network wiring closets to simplify network operations. But now Brocade claims it can simplify operations even further by replacing the traditional switch stack with a new technology that essentially turns the entire campus LAN into one giant stack. READ THIS NEWS STORY.