Avoiding the Nightmare of Network Downtime in the Cloud
When I think about network downtime, many words come to mind. Among them: panic, fear, Armageddon. Perhaps that last one is a bit dramatic, but as IT functions and ...Full Article
Net Vendor Midokura Raises $20.4M
Software network virtualization specialist Midokura announced a $20.4 million funding round this week as uptake of its network virtualization platform gains momentum. The Series B funding round announced Wednesday ...Full Article
Cisco Extends Meraki Cloud to Communications
Cisco Systems moved to scale its enterprise-networking strategy into a subscription model this week via its Meraki cloud-managed communications platform. Along with its entry into the voice communications market, ...Full Article
Bandwidth Demands Drive Next-Gen Net Adoption
Data networks are emerging as a bottleneck as enterprises cope with an explosion of traffic and a growing lack of bandwidth to handle streaming video services and Internet of ...Full Article
Mellanox Readies First 200 Gb/s Silicon Photonics Devices
Mellanox Technologies will announce an “important milestone” on the road to high data rate 200Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet networks during the Optical Fiber Conference this week in Anaheim, Calif. ...Full Article
Cisco Rolls Software-Driven Net Framework
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) rolled out its new network architecture this week designed to make it easier to deploy software-defined platforms, virtualization, analytics and other digital enterprise capabilities. The ...Full Article
100 Million IOPS: Brocade’s New Gen 6 Fibre Channel Switch
Fibre Channel market leader Brocade today announced the G620 Switch, which the company says is the industry’s first Gen 6 fixed port Fibre Channel SAN switch designed to support ...Full Article
Networking Test Bed Wrings Out Industrial IoT
While a global network of connected devices and sensors touted as the Internet of Things (IoT) remains mostly on the drawing board, the industrial sector is rolling up its ...Full Article
Open Source Effort Targets Faster Nets, Storage
Networking is becoming a bottleneck as enterprises store, move and sift through vast quantities of structured and unstructured data from a growing list of sources. In an effort to ...Full Article
Networking Mergers Seen as Datacenters Are Stretched
Video streaming and emerging concepts like the Internet of Things (IoT) are beginning to overwhelm datacenters. For networking providers, that's proving to be a good thing as growing demand ...Full Article
