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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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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Cisco today announced upgrades to its director-class and multiservice fabric switches The new Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Director delivers six times the bandwidth of its predecessor, while the Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Fabric Switch is ...
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Calling it the biggest news since its creation, VCE today added two low-end models to its line of Vblock pre-configured, cloud-computing systems. VCE also announced it is teaming with SAP AG to add the SAP HANA database to its Vblock ...
Calling it the biggest news since its creation, VCE last week added two low-end models to its line of Vblock pre-configured, cloud-computing systems. VCE also announced that it is teaming with SAP to add the SAP HANA database to its ...
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The VCE partnership involving EMC, its subsidiary VMware and Cisco will not change, even after Cisco last month expanded its partnership with EMC rival NetApp to sell preconfigured cloud architectures. "I feel the partnership is ...
Appearing to further distance itself from VCE coalition partners EMC and VMware, Cisco this week expanded collaboration with storage titan NetApp to deepen integration and market reach. Cisco and NetApp, a storage rival of EMC's, are ...
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Cisco Systems posted a small sales gain of 4 percent and a larger boost in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday. The company's revenue hit$11.7 billion for the quarter ended July 12,up 4 percent from a year earlier.Its net ...
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Computerworld-NetApp and Cisco this week revealed ExpressPod,a new converged infrastructure for small and medium-sized businesses(SMBs)based on its predecessor,FlexPod. ExpressPod follows two previous iterations of the pre-configured ...
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Theresa Caragol,VP, Global Channels, Extreme Networks, has revamped the company's channel approach. CW: You masterminded the channel program at your previous company, Ciena. How different is it to work with a company that already has a ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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For second-quarter 2012, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $136.5m, down 2% on $139.9m last quarter and 48% on $264.8m a year ago. Fiscal ...
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While several of the largest storage vendors, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and NetApp, have entered into agreements with server, software and networking vendors to offer bundled products, purpose-built products are just beginning to emerge. ...
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Dell and VMware announced a partnership this week through which the two companies will sell a bundled system with server, network and storage components in support of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Dell's new vStart for VDI is ...
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Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems announced today that it is selling a prebuilt infrastructure and a pretested reference architecture that combine servers, networks, storage and management components that can be deployed in days. HDS's ...
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