Dell is teaming up with Red Hat to drive its effort to be a force in the burgeoning area of network function virtualization (NFV) technology, aimed at helping carriers reduce costs and quickly roll out new services. Co-engineered Dell-Red ...
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VMware has posted a new beta release of Virtual SAN (VSAN) that lets enterprises add more storage capacity and management features. Server virtualisation is still VMware's bread and butter, but the company has this year expanded its ...
F5 Networks has used GITEX to big up its cloud credentials this week, as it seeks to educate customers about the reality of doing business on the cloud. According to Vincent Lavergne, Senior Pre Sales Manager, South EMEA, F5 hopes to ...
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Virtualisation giant VMware's push into the networking space may have strained its relationship with partner Cisco - which specialises in the area - but VMware believes that it will patch things up with the San Jose, California-based firm. ...
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HP and VMware, Inc. announced plans to collaborate to deliver the industry’s first federated network solution, designed to provide customers unified automation of, and visibility into, their physical and virtual data center networks. ...
Networking giant Cisco is to buy scalable solid state memory system provider Whiptail in a deal worth about $415m. According to Cisco, the deal would strengthen its Unified Computing System (UCS) strategy and allow it to better support ...
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Juniper Networks this week will extend its SDN offerings with the release of its controller, roughly six months ahead of schedule. The controller technology obtained from the acquisition of Contrail Systems?is now called JunosV Contrail. ...
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TRAFFIC visibility specialist Gigamon has chosen Jim Balog to be regional sales director for Australia and New Zealand as it ramps up sales and marketing activities to address growing network challenges of telecommunications, enterprise and ...
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Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Instantis,a cloud and on-premise project portfolio management company,to beef up its cloud services portfolio.The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Combining the capabilities ...
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Oracle today announced it has bought network virtualisation specialist Xsigo. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed,but Oracle said it was keen to bring together its own server virtualisation offerings with the smaller ...
VMware today announced its intention to buy Nicira for $1.05bn. VMware already dominates the server virtualisation market, but with this latest buy is looking towards a stronger play in networking, thanks to Nicira’s focus on ...
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The general availability of Windows Server 2012 today will see Microsoft’s strongest push yet to target VMware users. Microsoft describes the new operating system (OS) – an update to the three-year-old Windows Server 2008 OS ...
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Cisco has acquired vCider, a provider of virtual network overlay technology to support its Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy. VCider will become part of the company’s cloud computing division and support Cisco’s role in ...
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VMware has continued its shopping spree by buying big data analytics tool Log Insight in order to expand its cloud and virtualisation portfolio in its battle against Amazon and Rackspace. The move follows the acquisitions of cloud ...
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Brocade today announced support for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Server 2012 server operating system across all product lines, including the company’s Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) and Ethernet fabric solutions. ...
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