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Force10 Introduces High Performance 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet Top-of-Rack Switch

October 07, 2010 09:32 AM
Force10 Networks, Inc., a global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business, today announced the extension of its S-Series??? family with the new S55 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) top-of-rack (ToR) access switch. Optimized for data center environments, the new S55 provides a resilient and energy-efficient hardware design that delivers non-blocking, line-rate switching performance as well as support for the Force10 Open Automation Framework to make virtualized data center environments more responsive and manageable.

AccelOps "All In One" Infrastructure Monitoring

September 23, 2010 09:40 AM
Targeted at service providers and large enterprises, AccelOps 2.1 SP (Service Provider) edition is a data center and cloud service monitoring solution that delivers operational intelligence and automation to enable service providers and large enterprises to meet service-level-agreement (SLA) commitments, reduce costs and capitalize on service opportunities. Starting at $60,000 and available as a virtual appliance or SaaS, it consists of the SIEM (Security Information Event Management) SP Module, the Performance Availability Monitoring SP Module (Performance, Availability and Business Service Management), or offers both as an "all-in-one" platform.

Brocade Announces Unified Management Software

September 15, 2010 10:00 AM
Brocade has announced Network Advisor, new software that provides a single management console across the company's product lines, including SAN switches, Ethernet switches and WLANs. Network Advisor also supports Fibre Channel, FCoE, IP and MPLS. The offering unites the company's previously separate management products, Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) and IronView Network Manager (INM), which came from the 2008 acquisition of Foundry Networks. In addition to managing its own products, Network Advisor will interoperate with management tools from vendors such as VMware, IBM and EMC. The company says the new software will be available in November 2010.

Ether2 Launches 'The Q.' To Resolve Network Bandwidth Bottlenecks

September 14, 2010 09:40 AM
Today Ether2 launched "The Q." at Fall Demo 2010. The Q. is a breakthrough network technology that eliminates bottlenecks by applying broadcasting economies to broadband communications. Like original TV and radio, The Q. enables an unlimited number of users to share the network without incurring additional overhead.

Apace Packages Private Media Cloud In An Appliance For Global IP And Mobile Access

September 10, 2010 11:57 AM
Apace Systems Corporation, a leading media workflow and storage solution provider for media content creation, distribution and archive, announces immediate availability of its uTube in the Box, its advanced collaborative media access platform for interactive global access, search/query, and two-way collaborative communication via video accessible over private and public IP networks.

The Deal On FCoE

September 09, 2010 11:00 AM
In the 500 or so years it feels like I've been working with computers of one sort or another, I've noticed that shiny new technologies follow similar trajectories. With FCoE, we've reached what Gartner calls the "Peak of Inflated Expectations," and what I call the "ATM Can Fix Everything" moment, named after the timely combination of IBM introducing desktop ATM cards and a Visa commercial in the mid 1990s. As we head towards the "Trough of Disillusionment" we need to take a good hard look at where FCoE is a good fit and where it could be overkill or resume dressing.

Aruba Networks Completes Acquisition Of Azalea Networks

September 03, 2010 09:30 AM
Aruba Networks, Inc., a global leader in distributed enterprise network solutions, today announced it has completed its acquisition of privately-held Azalea Networks, a leading supplier of outdoor mesh networks. The acquisition includes an operations center in Beijing which will complement Aruba's existing R&D centers in Bangalore and Silicon Valley.

Sorrento Networks' GigaMux 3200 Platform Now Includes Tunable XFPs

August 16, 2010 09:54 AM
Sorrento Networks announced today the availability of its new Tunable XFP, a new feature in its GigaMux 3200 platform for all of its 10G services. An XFP is the 10G laser signal on Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) platforms. A traditional XFP has a discrete channel assigned to it as it is manufactured. Up until now, if a WDM network had only one specific channel available, the network operator had to purchase a discrete XFP for that channel. Today, using Sorrento's world-class management system, a network operator can select channels in real-time and incorporate those changes immediately. This new feature will dramatically decrease installations times, while decreasing network downtime for channel modifications.

Know Your Product's Security Capabilities

August 16, 2010 09:00 AM
To build-out enterprises we utilize technologies in all forms. From the routers that shape the network to interrupters that understand the software powering our web servers, third parties have a hand in how secure our enterprise is. It is important when selecting third party technologies that security be kept in mind but we don't always get much of a choice. If we need a desktop operating system, we are pretty limited. If we need a widget for our website, however, we have more options. No matter the technology, ask the questions that matter to you around security. While you may not get all the answers you want, you will at least understand the risk better and be able to make better solutions in the long run.

Request For Information: Data Center Networking

July 26, 2010 02:00 PM
In the coming months, I am going to be spending a lot of time getting up close and personal with networking vendors' data center product sets. Jim Metzler and I are working on a data center networking RFI that Network Computing will publish, along with the vendor responses, in October. Jim and I are also going to present the results at the Interop NY show in October. I am looking forward to developing the RFI and reviewing the responses. In the last two years, there have been a ton of changes in the data center networking space driven by virtualization, data and storage networking consolidation, improvements in hardware efficiency, and new protocols to support increase demand. Typically, data centers are isolated enough from the campus LAN have unique demands that using a different vendor than your campus LAN makes sense. We want to get your input as well on what you think is important.

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