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HP and VMware,Inc. Announced Plans to Collaborate
Sep 25, 2013HP 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. ...
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Cisco Reduced Its Workforce by About 1% to Face The Advent of Software-Defined Networking
Apr 1, 2013Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 1% -- or 734 people - as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching. "We routinely review our business to ...
Tags: Computer Products, Electrical, Electronics
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Infinera Has Introduces FastSMP Multi-Failure Network Protection
Mar 20, 2013Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has introduced FastSMP, a next generation network ...
Tags: Infinera, network systems, digital optical network systems
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Intel Has Invested About $6.5m in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Firm
Feb 17, 2013Semi-conductor giant Intel has invested about $6.5m (£4.1m) in software-defined networking (SDN) firm Big Switch Networks, as it looks to diversify its portfolio away from PCs and servers. The investment by Intel comes in Big ...
Tags: Semi-conductor, Intel, networking
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Microsoft Take Another Step in Its Ambitious Goal of Helping Customers Manage Their IT
Jan 17, 2013With the release of the first service pack for Microsoft System Center 2012, Microsoft is taking another step in its ambitious goal of helping customers manage their on-premises IT and Microsoft Azure cloud services with a single set of IT ...
Tags: Microsoft System, on premises IT, cloud service, IT management
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Brocade Has Announced Its Acquisition of Vyatta for an Undisclosed Amount of Cash
Jan 4, 2013Brocade has announced its acquisition of Vyatta, a privately held maker of open source-based network software, for an undisclosed amount of cash. Vyatta develops an open source network operating system that is relevant for multiple ...
Tags: Brocade, Vyatta, acquisition, network software
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Cisco Systems Posted a Small Sales Gain of 4 Percent and a Larger Boost in Profit
Dec 31, 2012Cisco 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 ...
Tags: Cisco systems, revenue
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OpenStack Has Stirred Community Excitement and Attracted a Vendor Following
Dec 26, 2012Infoworld - OpenStack, the open source "cloud operating system," has stirred community excitement and attracted a vendor following, including Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, and Red Hat. But until now one thing has been lacking: A high-profile ...
Tags: OpenStack, cloud operating system, eBay, Cloud Architect
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There Are a Number of Emerging and Proposed Standard Protocols
Dec 25, 2012There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed at network virtualization via the ...
Tags: standard protocols, data center, Ethernet LANs, server virtualization
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Nicira Is a Start-up Right out of The Silicon Valley Playbook with a $1.26 Billion Ending
Dec 20, 2012Nicira is a start-up right out of the Silicon Valley playbook with a $1.26 billion ending, in just five years. VMware's decision, announced Monday, to buy this network virtualization company will likely be cited as a starring example of ...
Tags: Nicira, Silicon Valley, playbook, VMware
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Extreme Networks Unveiled 100G and 40G Ethernet Modules as Well as SDN Application
Nov 13, 2012Network World-Extreme Networks this week unveiled 100G and 40G Ethernet modules as well as SDN application support for its BlackDiamond X8 core switch. Extreme's 100/40G XL modules are designed to help scale BlackDiamond X8 networks for ...
Tags: Networks, application, cloud data, hardware
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Those Layoffs Happening at Juniper Might Be to Dress The Company up for a Sale
Oct 17, 2012Those layoffs happening at Juniper might be to dress the company up for a sale. That's some of the speculation swirling inside the company,fueled by reports that Juniper's hired an investment banker to manage bids from potential ...
Tags: layoff, EMC, ISI Group, Juniper, joint venture, Kevin Johnson
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Midokura Is Entering The U.S.Market with a Distributed Software
Oct 15, 2012Network World-Midokura,a Japanese startup focused on network virtualization,this week said it is entering the U.S.market with a distributed software defined network product designed for Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS). The companys ...
Tags: Japanese virtualization, network virtualization, IaaS, MidoNet
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Hewlett-Packard Is Readying Three New Software Capabilities
Aug 14, 2012IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is readying three new software capabilities that are designed to help enterprises pool their computing and storage resources across a network. The advances should make it easier for IT departments to ...
Tags: HP, network, virtualization
