HP Networking emerges; ProCurve and 3Com to be rebranded
By Tarry Singh at 20 April, 2010, 1:24 am
As HP moves closer to absorbing its giant EDS acquisition, its real all-round play emerges. With HP Networking, it goes directly after Cisco which lacks system integration, data center outsourcing and other services market presence. Cisco is still working on its Acadia initiative which still only involves software/hardware vendors like VMware and EMC, which certianly [...]
Read More >>Extreme Networks Introduces Direct Attach Architecture to Increase Data Center Performance and Reduce Network Tiers
By Tarry Singh at 19 April, 2010, 1:02 pm
ANTA CLARA, CA, April 19, 2010 — Extreme Networks, Inc. today announced its innovative “Direct Attach” architecture for data centers, a network architecture designed to bring virtual machine switching back into the network and out of the server. Extreme Networks Direct Attach data center architecture is an evolutionary approach that allows Virtual Machines (VMs) to [...]
Read More >>Google to power cloud computing with its own super fast network; 100 times faster than Verizon, AT&T!
By Tarry Singh at 10 February, 2010, 3:58 pm
Like I said to a buddy once: “I you want it to happen, you gotta go ahead and do it yourself”. Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. is planning to build high-speed fiber-optic broadband networks in the U.S. to offer Internet speeds that are more than 100 times faster than what Verizon Communications Inc. and [...]
Read More >>Diane Greene makes a comeback, this time as investor with Andreessen Horowitz
By Tarry Singh at 7 February, 2010, 2:20 pm
Alex was reporting this and I happened to quickly run a check on this start-up that specializes in Virtualization and Networking. You can check out yourself on Nicira. As you can see here they have managed a total funding of $9M by now. Will their technology be hot? We don’t know, maybe I’ll talk to [...]
Read More >>Riverbed buys competitor Expand Networks
By Tarry Singh at 17 November, 2009, 11:57 am
Both companies have technology to speed the transmission of data across wide area networks (WAN). Riverbed is publicly-owned, led by CEO Jerry Kennelly, and on a roll with its Steelhead WAN optimising appliance. It earned $102m in its third 2009 quarter, a 12 per cent increase on the second quarter and 18 per cent up [...]
Read More >>DataCore now supports FCoE as well
By Tarry Singh at 3 September, 2009, 12:28 am
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – August 28, 2009 – DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, today announced support for native Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connectivity for its SANmelody™ and SANsymphony™ storage virtualization solutions. The company has added the Emulex and Brocade FCoE converged network adapters (CNAs) [...]
Read More >>Arista Networks will link anything: Public, Private, Cloud networks vSphere
By Tarry Singh at 27 August, 2009, 5:39 am
MENLO PARK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–To address the growing need to manage hybrid virtual and physical infrastructures with multiple network operating systems Arista Networks today announced vEOS (virtualized Extensible Operating System), integrated networking software that peers with VMware vSphere™ 4 and manages the VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch to link physical and virtual machines to network policy and [...]
Read More >>The real story behind Cisco’s UCS and “One Giant Switch”!
By Tarry Singh at 16 July, 2009, 1:46 am
HP has some hard words for Cisco and this is a sign that HP is gearing up for a big fight. With VMworld keeping HP locked out of the VMworld organizers who obviously will have all of EMC gear now and Cisco’s boxes, HP is desperately looking for means to crack open Cisco’s UCS box [...]
Read More >>Cisco UCS and VMware vSwitch design for vSphere: Another great sample design!
By Tarry Singh at 5 July, 2009, 3:42 pm
Brad’s done it again! Take a look. What I found particularly interesting was that I can easily tell my VMware engineers [or do it myself, which is a lot fun of course] to upgrade the currently VI 3.x installations to vSphere as the 10GE adapter comes as “virtual” seamless, preserving the typical 1GE VM installations [...]
Read More >>NY stock exchange choose networking giant Juniper’s gear with 10GbE switches!
By Tarry Singh at 25 June, 2009, 12:50 pm
This roadmap includes a set of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches and routers available today and evolving to future products, developed under the code-name of Project Stratus at Juniper with Sun Microsystems’ former chip guru David Yen steering development. The devices are expected to include 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches that will allow [...]
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