Category: Networking

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  1. VMworld 2010: Vendors Roll Out New Products

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 1 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking , Storage

    VMworld 2010: Vendors Roll Out New Products There was lots of news coming out of the VMworld 2010 conference Tuesday in San Francisco. General sessions were held and labs continued as vendors showcased their products and announced new solutions. NetApp supports VMware View 4.5. NetApp (NTAP) announced that the integration of its industry-leading unified storage technologies enable VMware View 4.5 customers to achieve enhanced storage efficiency and virtual desktop scalability, while improving desktop performance levels for end users. NetApp has integrated with VMware View 4.5 several critical operations such as backup and recovery, deduplication, desktop cloning, and storage system monitoring directly to desktop and server administrators.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   NTT America   Brocade

  2. Microsoft Apologizes for Cloud Outage

    Explore Article internetnews.com (Aug 25 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking

    Microsoft Apologizes for Cloud Outage Microsoft has emerged recently as perhaps the most vocal proponents of the cloud. It certainly wasn't the first to embrace the new model of computing as a service, and many would argue that it's not the best. But the company is there now, and this week it received a reminder about the basics of always-on service. For more than two hours on Monday, some customers in North America were unable to access many of Microsoft's most popular services, including the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS).

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  3. VSS Gets $20M to Keep an Eye on Corporate Networks

    Explore Article GigaOM (Aug 24 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing , Networking

    VSS Gets $20M to Keep an Eye on Corporate Networks VSS Monitoring, a network traffic monitoring company, has taken $20 million in growth equity from Battery Ventures. The funding was the first for the company — founded in 2003 — and it will be used for R&D and to accelerate the company’s expansion. What’s noteworthy is that until this point, VSS had built network monitoring software and hardware and sold it for five years without taking venture capital.

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  4. Modern data centers require efficiency-oriented changes in networking with eye on simplicity

    Explore Article it-analysis.com (Aug 20 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking

    Modern data centers require efficiency-oriented changes in networking with eye on simplicity As data center planners seek to improve performance and future-proof their investments, the networking leg on the infrastructure stool can no longer stand apart. Advances such as widespread virtualization, increased modularity, converged infrastructure, and cloud computing are all forcing a rethinking of data center design. And so the old rules of networking need to change because specialized, labor-intensive and homogeneous networking systems need to be be brought into the total modern data center architecture. The increasingly essential role of networking in data center transformation (DCT) needs to stop being a speed bump and instead cut complexity while spurring on adaptability ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Fibre Channel   Microsoft   Oracle

  5. Brocade Readying 100G Ethernet for Data Centers

    Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 18 2010) Networking

    Brocade Readying 100G Ethernet for Data Centers Brocade Communications is preparing a 100-Gigabit Ethernet module for its NetIron MLX switch family, breaking the next LAN speed barrier in the flagship hardware line it acquired from Foundry Networks. More News From IDG Latest Networking Stories From the IDG News Service CIO-New IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers The IEEE 802.3ba standard, approved in June, defines specifications for both 40G bps and 100G bps connectivity. Networking vendors have been racing to introduce 100-Gigabit Ethernet, which some organizations with fast-growing performance requirements say they already need. ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   InfoWorld   Hewlett Packard

  6. Colocation Firm Internap Expands Seattle-Area Data Center

    Explore Article Web Host Industry Review (Aug 18 2010) Networking

    Colocation Firm Internap Expands Seattle-Area Data Center Colocation provider Internap Network Services (www.internap.com) announced on Wednesday it has completed its 7,500-square foot expansion of its Seattle-area colocation facility located at 3355 S. 120th Place in Tukwila, Washington in the Sabey Intergate campus.

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  7. Green Data Center Renewable Network in Canada

    Explore Article greenm3.com (Aug 4 2010) Carbon Footprint , Solar , Cloud Computing , Networking

    Green Data Center Renewable Network in Canada The quest for the ever-greener data center has long focused on more energy-efficient hardware and software platforms, both to lower consumption for actual data processing and lessen the resulting heat load. Most of the these initiatives have one thing in common: They target energy use at individual facilities. This has been a problem for supporters of renewable energy in particular, who have faced resistance from those who say such sources are unreliable.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Green ICT

  8. Virtualization: The key to a green data center?

    Explore Article zdnetasia.com (Aug 4 2010) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

    Virtualization: The key to a green data center? "Global electricity prices increased 56 percent between 2002 and 2006," which has generated the desire to create more efficient data centers, said Chris Mandahl, director of domestic sales at Emerson Network Power. However, before rushing to virtualize every server, VMWare's Ed Lenta advised administrators to ensure the move would not disrupt their mission-critical systems. "There is no point going from sprawl to consolidated--from many to few--unless the services we can offer on virtualized infrastructure are as good or better than those offered on sprawled infrastructure," said Lenta.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   Interactive Data Corporation

  9. Energy Proportional Datacenter Networks

    Explore Article Perspectives (Aug 1 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

    Energy Proportional Datacenter Networks A couple of weeks back Greg Linden sent me an interesting paper called Energy Proportional Datacenter Networks. The principal of energy proportionality was first coined by Luiz Barroso and Urs Hölzle in an excellent paper titled The Case for Energy-Proportional Computing. The core principal behind energy proportionality is that computing equipment should consume power in proportion to their utilization level. For example, a computing component that consumes N watts at full load, should consume X/100*N Watts when running at X% load. This may seem like a obviously important concept but, when the idea was first proposed back in 2007, it ...

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   James Hamilton

  10. Savvis Expanding to Global Financial Hubs

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 27 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking

    Savvis Expanding to Global Financial Hubs Savvis is looking to expand its data center network to emerging global financial centers, including locations in Brazil, Mumbai and Sydney, Australia, the managed hosting and cloud computing specialist said Monday. The strategy is being driven by interest from Savvis’ base of financial services customers, especially Thomson Reuters, which hosts a global low-latency trading network with Savvis. As electronic trading becomes more ubiquitous, Thomson Reuters is interested in offering services in growing financial business hubs across the globe.

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  11. The IT Department Of Tomorrow

    Explore Article Forbes.com (Jul 12 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking , Storage

    The IT Department Of Tomorrow As new technologies emerge that reshape the data center landscape, IT management is faced with the task of delegating responsibilities. In today's IT department, the roles and responsibilities are well-defined and structured. Teams are siloed into very specific verticals. Networking teams handle all aspects of the network. Storage teams handle everything to do with storage; server or systems teams, servers. With the advent of virtualization, converged infrastructures and cloud computing, this traditional model is no longer valid. All of a sudden, you see systems teams touching networking and becoming a lot more familiar with storage. Networking teams are slowly creeping ...

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  12. As network speeds increase optical switching research increases with green and energy efficient benefits

    Explore Article greenm3.com (Jul 8 2010) Networking

    As network speeds increase optical switching research increases with green and energy efficient benefits Initially, I saw MIT's news announcing 100 times faster with less energy consumption, and dismissed the news. An Internet 100 times as fast. A new network design that avoids the need to convert optical signals into electrical ones could boost capacity while reducing power consumption. In today’s Internet, data traveling through optical fibers as beams of light have to be converted to electrical signals for processing. By dispensing with that conversion, a new network design could increase Internet speeds 100-fold.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   MIT

  13. HP Beefs Up Virtual And Physical Security Offerings

    Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 29 2010) Networking

    HP Beefs Up Virtual And Physical Security Offerings HP has strengthened its security portfolio in order to prevent breaches in physical and virtual environments. In an effort to prevent network breaches in both physical and virtual environments, Hewlett-Packard has announced some high-performance security solutions. The offerings include the HP Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) module for the HP A5820 data centre switch, which converges storage and network top-of-rack switches as well as dedicated server and storage network adapters to reduce connectivity complexity at the server edge.

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Hewlett Packard

  14. Cisco Powers Up Energy Management Tools for Utilities, Consumers, Businesses

    Explore Article MarketWatch.com (Jun 29 2010) Monitoring , Networking

    Cisco Powers Up Energy Management Tools for Utilities, Consumers, Businesses Cisco today unveiled new technologies that build on its recently announced Connected Grid portfolio and help consumers and businesses better monitor and manage their energy consumption for cost and carbon savings, including an easy-to-use interface for the home environment. The Cisco(R) Home Energy Management Solution features a Home Energy Controller along with Cisco Energy Management Services that, when provided by utilities to their customers, are designed to help consumers securely and reliably gain insight into, and easier control over, their energy use. Additionally, Cisco announced key updates to its Smart Connected Buildings portfolio, including the new Cisco Network Building Mediator ...

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  15. Red Hat to VMware: So Who’s Cisco’s Pet Now

    Explore Article Linux (Jun 26 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking

    Red Hat to VMware: So Who’s Cisco’s Pet Now Red Hat is seeking to drive a wedge between Cisco and its ally VMware. It has supported Cisco’s server effort since the first UCS boxes started shipping last summer and Cisco wants to be the king of virtualization. So now Red Hat has integrated Cisco’s Virtual Network Link (VN-Link) technology with its kernel-based KVM virtualization. VN-Link is UCS’ way of keeping tabs on the network traffic in and out of virtual machines. It automates the movement of network and storage services so they can follow virtual machines as they move around the datacenter, helping to ensure consistent policy-driven network capabilities ...

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