Surmounting Super setbacks
With Pats’ loss fresh in his mind, Katt finds e-voting can be challenging
The Mortified Mouser was glad that the Super WX line. The company may have decided it didn’t make sense
Tuesday presidential primaries came along last week to spend the money on the integration effort.
to take his mind off the Patriots’ Super Bowl debacle. Then the KattPhone buzzed with a call from an EqualLogic
On Sunday, the Katt couldn’t help two burly Patriots linemen VAR with a very sarcastic message about the fanfare Dell trum-
tackle one skinny Giants quarterback. But come Tuesday morn- peted around the first “new” products introduced since Dell
ing, Spencer could cast one vote for his favorite candidate. completed the EqualLogic buy. Dell held a whole news event
But doing so presented the Geeky Gato with his first around the EqualLogic products, but the VAR acidly noted that
encounter with an electronic vot- Dell merely recycled the old products
ing machine. It should have been LITTER LYNX under new names. The announcement a snap for the technologically intui- only served to raise channel partners’
tive Tabby, right? But the Wired One history.com/minisites/valentine skepticism that Dell was going to found himself stymied at the first necco.com/AboutUs/Default.asp steadily update the product line. hurdle—entering his voter account Other people are raising questions code. The screen displayed a key- cryptogram.com/hearts about those glowing estimates for the pad to let him enter the four- And don’t forg@et me at go.eweek.com/kattoon virtualization market’s growth potential.
number code. It looked for all the People say there’s lots of green field
world like a touch-screen. So the Katt found himself futilely in the market, but that number seems to be keeping steady, with
pawing the screen wondering why nothing was happening. about 93 percent of potential buyers holding off on implement-
It was only when the Impatient Puss took a deep breath ing technology. So what’s holding back adoption if this stuff is so
and read the directions that he realized the machine used a hot? Dennis Hoffman, an EMC exec who led the RSA acquisition,
wheel mouse to manipulate the keypad. It took a few more explained the situation to the Gastronomic Gossip over a repast
moments of trial and error before he successfully com- of sea bass and frisée salad at a tony Madison Avenue eatery.
pleted his ballot. “Geez, how do techno-phobes and total Hoffman said a lack of confidence in the security of virtualized
novices negotiate these boxes?” Spencer wondered. environments is why. He said to look for virtual security products
Then Spencer found that even his tipsters were scratch- from EMC-RSA to hit the market in the next few months. ´
ing their heads over the news
coming out of Silicon Valley last
week. One of the more puzzling
moves was Juniper’s decision to
scrap the DX line of application
delivery controllers. The product
line, which Juniper acquired with
Redline Networks at the same
time that it made the rapid-fire
buyout of Peribit Networks, cost
Juniper $132 million. Three years
later, and undoubtedly not even
close to recouping that investment, Juniper decided to phase
out the DX line. One insider theorized that perhaps sibling rivalry
contributed to the downfall of the
DX line, which was supposed to
have been integrated with the
