Dell Brings Multi-Rate Switching to the Datacenter
Dell rolled out a series of "open networking" switches and platforms for software-defined datacenters this week designed to widened the data pipe to as much as 100-GbE switching speeds. ...Full Article
Freescale Targets SDN With Switching Platform
Software-defined networks are getting a nudge from hardware vendors, including chipmakers. With an eye toward advancing SDN deployments that are expected to ramp up this year, Freescale Semiconductor introduced ...Full Article
Juniper Networks Doubles SRX5800 Firewall Speed
Juniper Networks today unveiled new hardware for its SRX5800 Services Gateway that doubles the device's available Internet Mix (IMIX) firewall throughput to 2 terabits per second (Tbps) and addresses ...Full Article
IoT Drives Asia-Pacific Cybersecurity to $22B by 2020
Spurred by private sector awareness, political turmoil, and cybercrime, Asia-Pacific organizations will spend $22 billion on critical infrastructure technologies by 2020, ABI Research estimates. Spending is expected to increase ...Full Article
Cisco Bolsters SDN Push with Embrane Deal
Cisco Systems launched its software-defined networking protocol called OpFlex last year as a counter to OpenFlow, a move that drew a growing list of partners. Among them is Embrane ...Full Article
Juniper Networks Brings Computing Network Power to Wall St.
Juniper Networks today (April 6) unveiled an application acceleration switch and packet flow accelerator module designed to bring computing performance and customizable logic into the network to accelerate critical ...Full Article
Dell Targets Network Bottleneck with Switch Interface
In an attempt to move software-defined networking off the drawing board and into the datacenter, Dell's networking unit is rolling out a switch interface as a standard API that ...Full Article
HP Acquires Aruba Networks
Hewlett-Packard has announced what is expected to be the first of several networking and cloud acquisitions this year, snapping up wireless networking specialist Aruba Networks Inc. in a bid ...Full Article
OpenStack Collaboration Grows Around Network Virtualization
The virtualization technology that has expanded the capacity of datacenters is gradually shifting to telecommunications and other networks via a growing list of cloud approaches that are enabling software-defined ...Full Article
HP Targets Web-Scale Datacenters With New Switches
As cloud datacenters expand to handle web-scale workloads, network vendors like Hewlett-Packard and Cisco System are placing more emphasis on the plumbing required to handle cloud and big data ...Full Article