Microsoft has appointed Laura Ipsen as corporate vice president of its worldwide public sector organisation.

Telstra is to offer, in coming months, an LTE version of the Cisco Cius Android based tablet, presently available only with WiFi and bluetooth.

Leading Australian managed services and cloud computing provider, Brennan IT, is bringing Microsoft Hyper-V to its cloud platform following the recent $1.5 million upgrade of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform as it gears up to meet what it says is rising demand for its cloud services.

Cisco has announced the addition of 100GBE and 40GBE ethernet capabilities to its Nexus Switches and 40GE to its Catalyst switches in anticipation of surging data centre workloads driven by cloud computing.

A news report says Kevin Bermeister, of Kazaa fame, thinks major network equipment providers could easily use a “global file registry filter” to “reduce piracy” – but surely censorship could easily rear its even uglier head?

Gartner has positioned Riverbed Technologies well ahead of competition in its latest Magic Quadrant for wide area network optimisation vendors.

Cisco has introduced a new Wi-Fi access point designed to meet the demands placed on enterprise Wi-Fi networks by the influx of smartphones and tablets into the corporate environment.

Nine major telcos, including Telstra, have joined forces to form the Global Meeting Alliance, dedicated to facilitating video communications between customers on their respective networks.

The complexity of today’s networks seems to be in a constant state of flux, with TCP/IP and Ethernet networks designed and implemented to support data traffic now expected also to carry voice, video, fax and images. Network administrators also need to ensure that their traffic is secure.

The rapid adoption of cloud solutions will transform the traditional networking channel landscape in countries of the EMEA region -  Europe, the Middle East and Africa – as the market is fuelled by new technologies, changing customer demands, an alternate vendor landscape, and an uncertain regional economy.