Microsoft has announced universities on the Janet network will be able to connect directly into its Azure cloud data centre in Dublin, thanks to a peering project. Janet is a private network used by UK universities. At its heart it provides its own network connections, rather than relying on the public Internet, so Janet users can enjoy better speed and security.
Despite all the hype around software-defined networking (SDN), it won’t really provide any cost savings, according to Juniper Networks. There has been much debate over the potential for SDN, especially surrounding cost savings. As SDN puts a virtualised layer across networking infrastructure, giving control over switches and routers to IT in a single console, it should bring greater efficiency.
Cyan announces that GlobalConnect will deploy 400G network across Denmark using its Blue Planet software-defined networking solution. Also, news from Juniper, Yahoo Japan, EdgeCast and TeliaSonera.
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.
Juniper Networks has announced that Yahoo Japan has deployed QFX3000-M QFabric System at its new environmentally friendly "Shirakawa Data Center." Shirakawa datacenter is a large-scale IT data center that covers the Tokyo metropolitan area and East Japan.
NEC Corp. unveiled its SDN Application Center, which includes SDN solutions built upon customers' chief network concerns. NEC will provide APIs to help organizations proactively and automatically manage, secure and optimize their networks through their SDN solutions.
The folks at Open Compute Project are on a roll, driving open source ideas into servers, data centers, racks, etc. And now their latest move is networking. With that in mind, we are today announcing a new project within OCP that will focus on developing a specification and a reference box for an open, OS-agnostic top-of-rack switch.
The Week in Review: Open Compute tackles networking, major expansion for Twitter, Equinix opens new Ashburn data center, Iron Mountain expands its ambitions in the data bunker market..
May 10, 2013 -- Data center operator Equinix announced on Friday it is now expanding the AWS Direct Connect service to its Seattle data centers, SE2 and SE3.Keep on reading: Equinix Expands AWS Direct Connect Availability to Seattle Data Centers
Cologix focused on connectivity in launching at the Dallas INFOMART, and the company has followed that model as it has expanded, primarily through acquisitions, assembling a footprint in key network hubs in Minneapolis, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
Since Facebook kicked off the Open Compute Project by donating its overall data center design, the OCP Foundation has been chipping away at open sourcing designs for all of the critical components that go into the data center. Next up: network switches. In a keynote speech at Interop , Facebook VP of hardware design and supply chain Frank Frankovsky reviewed two years of progress at expanding ...
In a move that will accelerate the shakeup in the networking sector, the Open Compute Project said this week that it will expand its "open source hardware" initiative to include network switches.
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.
Green tech expert Kate Craig-Wood takes issue with a suggestions that wireless networks use too much energy
The creators of Ushahidi, a crisis mapping platform, have developed hardware that keeps wireless communication going in the midst of chaos. The people behind Ushahidi, a software platform for communicating information during a crisis, have now developed what they are dubbing a “backup generator for the Internet”—a device that can connect with any network in the world, provide eight hours of wireless connectivity battery life, and can be programmed for new applications, such as remote sensing.
We’re very excited to be returning to Europe for our second series of WHIR Networking Events across the pond. We hope you will join us in Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London later this month. Frankfurt – Thursday May 23 – Cafe Hauptwache Amsterdam – Tuesday May 28 – Westerliefde London – Thursday May 30 – Concrete [...]Keep on reading: WHIR Networking Events in Europe this month
May 3, 2013 -- CenturyLink announced on Tuesday that it has extended its fiber network into metro Jacksonville, Florida, to connect to two independent, third-party data centers.Keep on reading: CenturyLink Extends Fiber Network to Jacksonville, Florida
wITH enhancements to density, scale and speed, Arista says the 7500E is its fastest and most scalable Ethernet switch ever, and will enable cloud networks to scale to over 100,000 servers and and millions of virtual machines.
On May 1, 2013 by Jeffrey Burt eWEEK USA 2013. Ziff Davis Enterprise Inc. All Rights Reserved. 0 Hewlett-Packard has expanded its product offerings that will make up its new data centre network fabric and bolster the company’s software-defined networking (SDN) efforts. The products announced 30 April include new data centre switches that offer greater automation and scalability, enhanced virtualisation performance and a less complex networking architecture, technologies that more tightly integrate virtualised networking with physical infrastructures, and software that automates application and service delivery in SDNs and traditional network devices and configures and the applications.
April 29, 2013 -- NTT Communications announced on Monday that its subsidiary NTT Communications Russia will offer a range of data center services via IXcellerate's Moscow One carrier-neutral facility in Moscow.Keep on reading: NTT Communications Offers Colocation Services in Moscow
On the international front, Q9 Networks Expands in Calgary, Colt extends its network infrastructure to Cork, and Interxion London adds BT Cloud connectivity.
Digital Realty wants to fix that problem. The company will build dark fiber infrastructure to connect its key Internet gateways and data center buildings, making it easier and cheaper for customers to connect with the carriers and clouds of their choice.
April 25, 2013 -- Canadian data center operator Q9 Networks announced on Thursday it has opened its newest phase at its largest suburban Calgary data center as part of its ongoing data center expansion strategy. Keep on reading: Q9 Networks Completes Third Expansion at Calgary Data Center
