Mellanox, the networking chip company famous for its Infinband products has agreed to to buy photonics startup Kotura in an all-cash deal. The purchase comes after Kotura started making products for the data center.
Centurylink Internet Network is down. Where are your five nines now? CenturyLink’s nationwide outage affects millions by Stacey Higginbotham 2 HOURS AGO 3 Comments A A SUMMARY: If you’re one of CenturyLink’s 5.8 million broadband subscribers, you’re probably fuming because your service is out. Such nationwide outages are rare, but that doesn’t make it any less painful for customers. tweet this Most cloud outages are caused by human errors, and there is a good chance that CenturyLink's outage is also caused by human errors in the ability to detect the problem, identify the source of the problem, and possibly taking the wrong action to fix the problem. we'll see what the postmortem reveals as the events that caused the outage.
Intel on Thursday named a new CEO and a new president. While both are internal candidates, the new president has experience that should help her face the challenges Intel has in the mobile and data center market.
Facebook confirmed a data center in Altoona, Iowa, the same day Google said it would also expand its data center operations in the state. As Facebook pushes transparency, it's also pushing the notoriously secretive Google.
As the web giants, co-lo providers and cloud companies add millions of square feet of data center space we need to start getting more sophisticated in how we view these rooms full of servers.
Intel has big plans in the networking --plans that will upset the status quo from merchant silicon vendors like Broadcom to box makers like Cisco and Juniper who are dependent on custom ASICs.
Vint Cerf is the father of the internet, so its worth listening to what he thinks the next generation of networking might enable. For him software-defined networking might fix some design flaws.
Many of the hardcore data center folks don't go to GigaOm Structure Data. This latest conference was dominated by Big Data presentations. Chatting with a few of the old timers who have gone to many of the GigaOm conferences, there were three presentations that stood out. Check these out to get a taste of what is presented. Paul Maritz makes a call for leadership for a Data Driven Future. If you want to read the talk go here. EMC’s Paul Maritz: it takes leadership to move companies toward a data-driven future by Eliza Kern
Want to see big data in action? When it comes to planning out data center capacity, data can influence everything from the power usage to planning for disasters.
When it comes to using big data, there are still bottlenecks. Many of these are around the tools that people use to try to make sense of massive amounts of information.
Qualcomm doesn't believe that everything in the internet of things should have to connect to the internet, and is building out a peer-to-peer networking platform called AllJoyn to test its theory.
BTY Systems has raised $10 million in third round funding and launched a new software-defined networking product that will span data centers.
As we muddle our way to a software-defined infrastructure that is capable of handling scale-out web deployments with the click of mouse or the swipe of a finger on a graphical user interface, more and more startups are coming out of the woodwork. Jeda Networks is another one. The Newport Beach, Calif.-based company has raised an undisclosed sum from US Venture Partners and Miramar Venture Partners to build what it dubs the software defined storage network.
People in a data center add costs, but before we can let the machines take over, applciations need ways to communicate with the underlying gear. Plexxi and Boundary have teamed up to make this possible.
Facebook took aim at the hardware business back in April 2011 with the launch of the Open Compute open hardware program, and Wednesday is fired the killing blow at the $55 billion server business.
The threat of software-defined networking has prompted Juniper to revamp its business model -- switching from a hardware-based model to one more familiar in enterprise software. It has also unveiled an SDN strategy that preserves the importance of specialty hardware at the lowest level of the network.
Just announced: Pat Gelsinger, who participated in several major computing shifts at Intel, EMC and now VMware, will be speaking at Structure in San Francisco, June 19-20. We'll talk about VMware's vision of a software-defined data center and its place in the changing IT ecosystem.
Companies spent roughly $1.6 billion buying networking startups in 2012 with one deal being responsible for the lion's share of that total. Yet, even if VMware hadn't purchased Nicira for $1.26 billion, networking deals and software-defined networking deals in particular, were red hot in 2012.
Figuring out how to bring the speed of light to communications on chips, between chips and everywhere has been an overarching goal of semiconductor research. IBM says it is ready to bring a technology that puts optics and electronics on a chip using conventional manufacturing methods.
Plexxi has made a new networking box that it calls a switch, but is radically different from the switches on the market today. The switch contains software plus an optical transceiver that link to other Plexxi boxes to form a fast connection between thousands of servers.
Data centers are the manufacturing floor of the web and cloud computing, so it makes sense that the amount of data center capacity added in the last two years as been measured in millions of square feet. But where it's added is changing.
