networking

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

Facebook’s ‘Building Blocks’ Mantra Includes Intel

Facebook executives touted the advantages of its datacenter "building blocks" approach during the Open Compute Project (OCP) summit as a way to achieve flexibility and faster scaling. Meanwhile, it ...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

Cisco Expands Container Infrastructure Effort

Cisco Systems is taking an infrastructure approach to container-based application deployment via an open source project designed to define operational specifications for networking, storage and computing. Project Contiv unveiled ...Full Article

How to Optimize Your Toolset to Tackle Today’s Network Issues

While SDN and IoT will undoubtedly alter the networking landscape, they shouldn’t distract from other business and tech trends that impact enterprise networks right now.Full Article

Ciena Upgrades 5430 Platform for High-Speed OTN

The global, growing hunger for faster networks to power high bandwidth, on-demand networks and service providers is spurring sales of OTN switching technologies, a hunger Ciena hopes to feed ...Full Article

Docker Targets Production With New Tools, Services

As it moves to become a de facto standard for application container formats, Docker released a batch of management tools, support services and a new on-premise registry for container ...Full Article

Dell Moves to Push SDN to the Cloud

Dell said this week it is partnering with up-and-coming software-defined networking specialist Pluribus Networks to accelerate SDN adoption in the cloud. The partners said Thursday (June 11) they would ...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

Intel Datacenter Biz Profits From Hyperscale, HPC Build Outs

In most cases, saying the datacenter is hot is a bad thing, but not so when talking about the financial results of chip maker Intel. The company just reported ...Full Article