Juniper Survey Shows Networks In Cloud Transition
The shift to cloud services increasingly requires changes in network infrastructure to support the rollout, a networking industry-sponsored study found. Juniper Networks commissioned the hybrid cloud study earlier this ...Full Article
Blue Cross Blue Shield Streamlines Networking, Virtualization
You want your healthcare insurance provider to run a lean and mean IT shop, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama is always looking at new technologies to make ...Full Article
Supermicro Taps Pluribus For MicroBlade Network OS
Whitebox server maker Supermicro is teaming up with hybrid server-switch maker and networking upstart Pluribus Networks to run the latter company's Netvisor network operating system on the integrated switches ...Full Article
Dell Advances Open Networks With Big Switch Deal
Dell is joining forces with software-defined networking specialist Big Switch Networks to advance its open networking initiative that aims to shake up the traditional networking switch model. Dell has ...Full Article
Juniper Revenue Jumps As Cloud Building Ramps
Juniper Networks reported 10 percent year-on-year revenue growth of $1.17 billion in the first quarter, led by strong business in the federal and financial services market. Net income rose ...Full Article
Cisco Counters OpenFlow SDN With OpFlex, Updates Nexus Switches
Cisco Systems has taken a different approach to software-defined networking, by baking some of its features into its Nexus switching hardware to combat OpenFlow and more generic switches with ...Full Article
Google Lifts Veil On “Andromeda” Virtual Networking
The biggest public cloud providers have adjacent businesses that actually fund the development of the infrastructure that starts out in their own operations and eventually makes its way into ...Full Article
Extreme Networks Rolls Out High-End Switch, SDN Framework
Upstart Extreme Networks rolled out a new software-defined network architecture and a high-end switch during this week's Interop conference in Las Vegas. San Jose-based Extreme Networks claimed its BlackDiamond ...Full Article
Arista Champions New 100GbE Optical Spec, Files To Go Public
Frustrated by the limitations of the current crop of transceivers that have been approved by the IEEE and adopted by the industry, Arista Networks is teaming up with Intel ...Full Article
Dell Z9500 Switch Pushes 40GbE Density Up, Costs Down
The increasing adoption of 10 Gb/sec Ethernet between servers and out to storage arrays is driving the need for more bandwidth higher up in the aggregation layer of the ...Full Article