1. Running Clouds, Chasing Cisco

    Running Clouds, Chasing Cisco
    A small cohort of Silicon Valley luminaries is reinventing the hottest trend in computing--and in the process giving the likes of Cisco, HP and Juniper Networks something to think about. Arista Networks is announcing on Monday its first chassis-based switch, capable of running 10,000 computer servers in a so-called "cloud" data center, the core of the growing business of remote access to high-speed supercomputing via a Web browser. The company says the product, which lists for $140,000, offers five times the performance of existing machines, while consuming one-tenth the power and occupying half the space.
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