Huawei’s head of research and development in North America said his company is more than ready to take on larger rival Cisco Systems but noted it will take some patience — and time.

“The U.S. is by far our most complex market … for us our entrance into the U.S. is similar to a western company entering China,” John Roese said in an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of IT infrastructure conference Interop in Las Vegas.

For a decade, China-based Read more

Hundreds of computer technicians in India are being hired to help develop an IT system for the government’s universal credit welfare programme,work potentially worth hundreds of millions of pounds,despite promises that large data projects would remain in the UK.

Workers in Bangalore and Mumbai are being hired by the outsourcing firms Accenture and IBM to help design and maintain a delivery system for universal credit,internal documents show.The Department for Work and Pensions Read more

Cisco may have sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley on Wednesday with its weak guidance, but tech investors should also note the much more positive tone struck by IBM on the same day.

At its 2012 investor briefing, IBM reiterated its target of generating at least $20 operating in operating EPS by 2015. The hardware and software giant also repeated its desire to spend $20 billion on acquisitions by 2015, generate $100 billion in free cash flow and return 70% to shareholders through Read more

IBM continues to amass an arsenal of analytics expertise,this time with the acquisition of Vivisimo,an information optimization and analytics company.Big Blue,on April 25 announced a definitive agreement to acquire Pittsburgh-based Vivisimo, which provides federated discovery and navigation software to help organizations access and analyze big data across the enterprise.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Meanwhile,IBM also announced that its big data platform will now run on Read more

Networking giant Cisco Systems just reported its earnings for the quarter and they’re better than expected.Profits were 47 cents on a per-share basis on sales of $11.5 billion. It also boosted its dividend payment to shareholders to eight cents a share,which if memory serves is double two cents a quarter higher than the prior dividend.

The profit was better than the 43 cents that analysts had forecast,while sales were about $200 million better than the $11.23 billion consensus Read more

Cisco Systems is bolstering its network management tools for service providers in its bid to buy the software business of ClearAccess.

The giant networking vendor announced the acquisition plan March 28,with officials saying that the new products Cisco will inherit will help service providers deal with issues of rapidly growing Internet traffic,increasing network complexity and a proliferation in the number and types of mobile devices connecting to their networks.

“The Read more

Networking giant Cisco Systems just reported its earnings for the quarter and they’re better than expected.Profits were 47 cents on a per-share basis on sales of $11.5 billion. It also boosted its dividend payment to shareholders to eight cents a share,which if memory serves is double two cents a quarter higher than the prior dividend.

The profit was better than the 43 cents that analysts had forecast,while sales were about $200 million better than the $11.23 billion consensus Read more

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced its intent to acquire privately held Truviso,Inc.Based in Foster City,Calif., Truviso provides scalable,real-time network data analysis and reporting software.Together, Cisco and Truviso will provide instant access and visibility into network use and services to help increase operational efficiencies and drive new revenue streams for customers.

The proliferation of end-user devices and growth in network-connected applications is exponentially Read more

The latest version of CompTIA Security+ is available today (English only, initially). As part of the ISO/ANSI accreditation for CompTIA Security+, we update the exam every three years and there was a lot of new information to cover.The exam is still aimed at an IT security professional who has a minimum of 2 years experience in IT administration with a focus on security,day to day technical information security experience,and broad knowledge of security concerns and implementation,but there Read more

We love our new Full HD Apple TV,but we’re not sure Apple does:the firm’s more interested in getting iPads into your living room than Apple TVs under your flat screen.Apple says the Apple TV is a hobby,but it turns out the company is thinking bigger.Much,much bigger:it wants to sell you the entire TV set,not a little box beneath it.

“With Apple TV,however,despite the barriers in [the TV set top box] market,for those of us who use it, we’ve always thought there Read more