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Big Switch Brings Hyperscale SDN To Enterprises
Big Switch Networks, a networking startup that was spun out of the Stanford University labs that created the OpenFlow protocol that underpins a lot of software-defined networking stacks, is ...Full Article
Integrated Systems Rankings Led by VCE, Cisco, Oracle
An emerging enterprise category of integrated systems that combine servers, storage and network infrastructure is led by the converged infrastructure alliance VCE, according to the latest in a series ...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
Simplivity Not Selling Itself To HP – Or Anyone Else
Rumors have been going around this week that Simplivity, one of the converged systems upstarts that is heavily funded and trying to take on the incumbents in enterprise datacenters, ...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
The Rise Of Server Upstarts
The battle between the tier one incumbent server makers and Cisco Systems and the custom server makers continued in the first quarter of the year, and the upstarts are ...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
Enterprises Embrace Converged Systems
The box counters at IDC are still working on a method to dice and slice how the market for converged systems is shaping up. Last year, as it was ...Full Article
Cisco Counters OpenFlow SDN With OpFlex, Updates Nexus Switches
Cisco Systems has taken a different approach to software-defined networking, by baking some of its features into its Nexus switching hardware to combat OpenFlow and more generic switches with ...Full Article
Five Years On, UCS Makes Cisco A Systems Player
Five years ago, when Cisco Systems launched its "California" Unified Computing System and entered the server business, that launch was not purposefully timed to come out into the gaping ...Full Article
