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 [...]
Read More >>Citrix and Arista to deliver Cloud Scale Networking
By Tarry Singh at 19 June, 2009, 2:26 am
Well Cisco is now in the hot seat as Citrix continues to apply pressure by joining hands with networking vendors such as Vyatta and now Arista.
To address the explosive scale of networking requirements within Cloud Services, Citrix Systems (NASDAQ:CTXS) and Arista Networks – founded by industry veterans Andy Bechtolsheim and David Cheriton – today [...]
HP+Alcatel 10 Yr Deal: Should Cisco worry or hurry?
By Tarry Singh at 18 June, 2009, 1:55 pm
One analyst said the alliance was a smart move by HP, which is finding itself in a heated competition with Cisco in the data center, and also needs to catch up to Cisco and IBM in the area of cloud computing.
Cisco, long known for its networking capabilities, made a significant step into the data center [...]
Forget 10G, look at Juniper’s [first] 100G Ethernet adapter!
By Tarry Singh at 10 June, 2009, 10:51 am
At a time when 10 Gigabit Ethernet is making inroads into the data center, Juniper Networks is looking to the next step.
Juniper is unveiling out what officials say is the world’s first 100GbE adapter, which will be delivered the company’s T1600 Core Router later this year.
Juniper officials, who announced the product June 8, said such [...]
Networking cool cat Vyatta is now Citrix Ready!
By Tarry Singh at 9 June, 2009, 12:15 pm
Belmont, CA – 2009-06-09 05:00:00 – Vyatta, the leader in open networking and network virtualization, today announced it has joined the Citrix Ready™ product verification program to create solutions for customers deploying cloud computing infrastructure. The two companies have verified product compatibility between Vyatta’s open networking solutions and the Citrix Cloud Center(C3) product family to [...]
Read More >>Riverbed pumps bigdaddy FatApp AutoCAD across Clouds
By Tarry Singh at 27 May, 2009, 1:35 pm
AutoCAD users in the architecture, engineering and construction fields typically work on drawings, make revisions and then file the drawing. If such revised drawings are sent across a WAN link, then there is often a lot of redundancy and the file transmission time much reduced, as the Steelheads detect the redundant data and do not [...]
Read More >>Blade Network Technologies unveils Cloud Ready Network products ready for mass virtualization!
By Tarry Singh at 15 May, 2009, 4:04 pm
I think I should soon get a job as a reporter, really! This is all cool stuff to cover.
BLADE is delivering a series of Cloud Ready innovations that enable open unified networking for cloud computing environments whether operated by service providers or internal IT providers:
– High-bandwidth, low-latency switching: A BLADE switch can deliver up
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Citrix’s NetScaler goes inside the VMs with Netscaler VPX
By Tarry Singh at 5 May, 2009, 1:53 pm
LAS VEGAS – May 6, 2009 Today at Citrix Synergy™ 2009, the conference where virtualization, networking and application delivery meet, Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) unveiled Citrix® NetScaler® VPX, a new software-based virtual appliance version of its industry-leading NetScaler® MPX hardware appliance product line. In addition to accelerating and securing web applications for thousands of [...]
Read More >>Qlogic shrugs off acquisition rumors by buying NetXen!
By Tarry Singh at 1 May, 2009, 8:33 am
There are three CNA suppliers: Brocade, a Fibre Channel switch vendor which has bought Ethernet switch supplier Foundry, Emulex, which is involved in a hostile takeover attempt by Ethernet switch vendor Broadcom, and QLogic. Seeing the ownership of 10Gbit/E technology as being essential to its future, QLogic has now bought NetXen, a supplier of 10Gbit/E [...]
Read More >>Terabit Ethernet is coming; Commercially ready by 2015!
By Tarry Singh at 12 April, 2009, 9:49 am
Looking down the LAN road, the Terabit Ethernet milestone is now in sight. While 3.2Tbit/s and 6.4Tbit/s speeds were demonstrated in test environments by Siemens/WorldCom and NEC/Nortel respectively starting in 2001, the first set of viable solutions are just now taking shape.
A recent issue of Optics Express included a paper detailing the efforts of researchers [...]
