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Is Cisco intimidating you?
Online ticket retailer StubHub needed new data center gear not too long ago, but when one of the company's executives decided to forgo Cisco ( NASDAQ: CSCO ) in favor of a rival, the networking giant
Survey: Most open source purchases made to avoid lock-in
Confidence in open source technology is growing among businesses of all sizes, according to a survey conducted by The 451 Group and North Bridge Venture partners. A majority of respondents said that
Gartner: Single-vendor network is costlier, not necessarily less complex
Large vendors have been ramping up the rhetoric surrounding the virtue of end-to-end systems, but analysts at Gartner argue that multi-vendor networks not only reduce costs but simplify operations,
The pros, cons of vendor lock-in
Over the past 10 years, enterprises widely rejected being locked into a single vendor's offerings, as open source and web-based architectures created more options for purchasing best of breed. While
