Cloud Builders Push 25G Ethernet Standard
Unhappy with the cost per gigabit of bandwidth with current Ethernet switches and adapters, two of the cloud computing giants – Google and Microsoft – have teamed up with ...Full Article
VXLAN Is The Future Of Networking In The Cloud
Cloud deployments depend on many network services such as monitoring, VPN services, advanced firewalling and intrusion prevention, load balancing, and traditional security and optimization policies. If we consider a ...Full Article
PCI Express Expert PLX Acquired By Avago
Analog chip developer Avago Technologies continued its foray into the storage market and possible the server market with the acquisition of PLX Technology in a cash deal valued at ...Full Article
Mellanox Cranks InfiniBand Bandwidth Up To 100
InfiniBand network equipment supplier Mellanox Technologies had been hinting that it would be able to get its first 100 Gb/sec products out the door perhaps in late 2014 or ...Full Article
Facebook Unveils Homegrown Ethernet Switch
Social media giant Facebook is one step closer to ousting Cisco Systems as its primary datacenter switching supplier with the launch of a new top-of-rack engineering project inside of ...Full Article
Cisco Sees Cloud Apps Fueling ‘Zettabyte Era’
Brace yourself for the Zettabyte Era. That forecast comes from networking equipment giant Cisco Systems, which has released its latest Visual Networking Index that foresees global Internet Protocol traffic ...Full Article
Ethernet Switching Sales Soften
The Ethernet switch market just took its biggest sequential dive in a long time, thanks to a confluence of economic forces and technology transitions among the major players. The ...Full Article
Cisco CEO Predicts ‘Brutal, Brutal’ IT Consolidation
John Chambers, CEO at Cisco Systems for the past 25 years, has hosted a CiscoLive customer and partner events each year he has steered the company, moving it from ...Full Article
Switching Down, UCS Up in Latest Cisco Quarter
The UCS converged systems business at Cisco Systems is beginning to find its natural level in the market, with slower growth that is nonetheless many times more than that ...Full Article
Juniper Survey Shows Networks In Cloud Transition
The shift to cloud services increasingly requires changes in network infrastructure to support the rollout, a networking industry-sponsored study found. Juniper Networks commissioned the hybrid cloud study earlier this ...Full Article
