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Brocade announced that it is rolling out advancements to its ServerIron ADX series of cloud-optimized application delivery switches.  These switches are designed to help customers gain greater application control and service scalability.

The legal battle with Apple Inc. over the iPad name started back in 2010 when Apple sued Proview’s Shenzhen-based unit, claiming ownership of the iPad trademark in China. The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court rejected Apple’s claims and Apple appealed that ruling to the Higher People’s Court of Guangdong province. The next hearing for this case is set for February 29.

NASA’s Chief Information Officer, Linda Cureton, announced in a blog on February 11, 2012 that NASA has shut down its last mainframe — the IBM Z9 Mainframe —  a two-ton, 56 square-foot monster running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4), stating, "This month marks the end of an era in NASA computing.”

SGI systems have been used for everything from designing and manufacturing safer and more efficient cars and airplanes to studying global climate change to creating a Pixar film.  It wasn’t until the last 5 years that they made their way into the field of Genomics.  In fact, on February 2,2012 SGI announced that it has initiated a global, integrated marketing campaign targeting genomic researchers and institutions.  With its’ slogan, “Because the world should not have to wait for answers,” the campaign was created with the hopes that they would be able to share information about how SGI high performance computing and storage solutions can improve the speed and scale of genomics research.

Cisco Systems announced that another blade server has gone up in flames.  The problem was originally brought to the table back in July of 2011 when Cisco discovered that their UCS B440 blade servers carry the risk of overheating and going up in flames.  They warned that their high-end B440 blades for their Unified Computing Systems have a potentially disastrous defect that could result in one or more board failures, and emit a flash of light that could send system administrators hearts racing!

The 2012 Federal IT budget request is approximately $80.9 billion, of which 52 percent is civilian and 48 percent is defense. In 2011, the IT budget was $78.8 billion.

Overall, the Enterprise  I.T. industry finished with good results in Q4 2011.

Brussels, 14 December 2011 - The European Commission has made legally binding commitments offered by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in the mainframe maintenance market. IBM commits to make spare parts and technical information swiftly available, under commercially reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, to independent mainframe maintainers.

 Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard Co. are accused of infringing a patent for routers and wireless networks in a complaint that may result in a ban of U.S. imports of their products.

Oracles shares fell as much as 13% as Oracle reported it missed its 2Q earnings and losing $20 Billion of Market Cap and Sun sales were off by 10%.