Ethernet

Cisco Converged System Sales Still Booming

Cisco Systems is another in a line of IT giants that are reporting sales that are lower than expected and a consequential impact to the bottom line in its ...Full Article

Regional Datacenter Bracing for 40GbE Demand

Datachambers, a datacenter operator that offers co-location and hosting services across North Carolina, has tapped Extreme Networks to be its Ethernet switch provider as part of a build out ...Full Article

Cisco Bakes SDN Into Switch Chips

Cisco Systems is still the dominant supplier of switches and routers in the datacenter, but upstarts like Arista Networks and Juniper Networks have done well selling faster switches in ...Full Article

Arista Flattens Networks for Large Enterprises with Splines

Arista Networks, which boasts serial entrepreneur Andy Bechtolsheim as its chief development officer and chairman, has been selling products for five years against Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Mellanox Technologies, ...Full Article

Cray Buys Gnodal Networking Assets, Hires Key People

British high-end Ethernet switch maker Gnodal went into administration in early October, and Cray has hired the key staff at the company while also picking up a bunch of ...Full Article

Mellanox Weaves Tightly Into OpenStack, Adds Long Haul Switches

Mellanox is making headway selling its networking hardware and software in both public and private clouds, as EnterpriseTech has previously reported. But the company has to make it easier ...Full Article

Juniper Wraps Smarter Fabrics Around Faster Switches

If you have a need for networking speed, Juniper Networks is rolling out a new line of Ethernet switches in its QFX line that offer more bandwidth, more ports, ...Full Article

Mellanox Banks On Storage and Cloud For Future Growth

Clouds, storage arrays, and clustered database servers are turning into very good drivers of business for Mellanox Technologies. These target markets together now account for more sales than its ...Full Article

BP Fires Up 2.2 Petaflops Cluster for Oil Exploration

There is an arms race in the oil and gas industry, and the weapon of choice is a server cluster. Energy industry giant BP has opened the doors on ...Full Article

Mellanox Open Sources Messaging Accelerator for Networks

Intrepid enterprises looking to boost the performance of their data streaming and messaging applications just got a new option now that Mellanox has open sourced its Messaging Accelerator offload ...Full Article