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Mellanox Introduces LinkX Portfolio
March 10th, 2014
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. today announced its LinkX comprehensive product portfolio of cables and transceivers supporting interconnect speeds of 10, 40 and 56 gigabit per second for both Ethernet and InfiniBand data center networks. As data centers transition to Open ...
Brocade Announces Support for OpenFlow 1.3
March 4th, 2014
Brocade today announced support for OpenFlow 1.3 across its IP portfolio of routing and switching products, extending the company's leadership and evolutionary approach to Software-Defined Networking (SDN). A key component of the company's comprehensive SDN strategy, the expansion of ...
HP And NEC Collaborate On Software-Defined Networks
March 4th, 2014
HP and NEC Corporation today announced they are collaborating on the integration of advanced technology, leveraging open standards, to deliver software-defined networking (SDN) enabled networking solutions to enterprise customers. Since 1995, NEC and HP have been strategic alliance partners, ...
Report Shows Ethernet Switch Market Exceeded $22 Billion in 2013
February 26th, 2014
According to a recent report by Dell’Oro Group, the Layer 2-3 Ethernet Switch market exceeded $22 billion in 2013, with most segments achieving record revenues during the year. “Cloud providers’ insatiable demand for network equipment and strong growth in ...
A3CUBE Introduces Brain Inspired In-Memory Network
February 25th, 2014
A3CUBE Inc. today announced a groundbreaking ‘brain inspired’ data plane encapsulated in a Network Interface Card (NIC) designed to bridge supercomputing benefits to the enterprise by dramatically transforming storage networking to eliminate the I/O performance gap between CPU power ...
MRV Delivers New OptiDriver Solution
February 18th, 2014
MRV Communications, Inc. today announced the addition of a 100Gbps multi-protocol, multi-rate muxponder to its recently introduced OptiDriver optical transport platform. MRV is helping data center operators, content delivery networks and cloud service providers maximize investment in their 10G ...
FCIA Announces Gen 6 Fibre Channel
February 13th, 2014
The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) announced Gen 6 Fibre Channel, representing the industry's fastest industry standard networking protocol that enables storage area networks (SANs) of up to 128GFC and includes a variety of features that further improve network ...
LSI and Supermicro Deliver Hyper-Converged Appliance
February 12th, 2014
LSI Corporation today announced it has collaborated with EMC, Mellanox and Supermicro to offer a high-performance virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) appliance for VMware Horizon View deployments. The appliance combines storage, compute and networking hardware in a single box to ...
Brocade Announces Qualification Program for Solid State Storage System Vendors
February 11th, 2014
Brocade today announced continued innovation and leadership in storage networking to support solid state storage system vendors who have adopted Fibre Channel as the protocol of choice to optimize application performance in enterprise storage area networking (SAN) environments. In addition ...
IBM Announces New Unified Network Controller
February 7th, 2014
IBM introduced a new unified network controller based on OpenDaylight technology designed to get organizations up and running fast on Software Defined Networks (SDN). SDN is an approach to network design and management that moves the control of network switches – which ...