June 20, 2012 5:00 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Cisco,
data center networks,
Networking,
openflow,
Plexxi,
software-defined networkingWhen Cisco introduced its Open Network Environment at Cisco Live last week, Cisco executives spoke about the importance of northbound APIs, leveraging the...
May 18, 2012 1:41 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
data center networks,
Juniper,
Juniper QFabric,
NetworkingJuniper Networks' QFabric solution can be tricky for tech journalists to cover. When Juniper boasts of QFabric customers, those boasts are very nuanced. Not all QFabric customers are
April 25, 2012 12:16 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
data center fabric,
data center networks,
Juniper,
Juniper QFabric,
Networking,
software-defined networkingEnterprises tend to be conservative with their data center networks, which makes Juniper Networks' efforts to displace legacy architectures with its new data center...
April 24, 2012 9:09 AM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Avaya,
Brocade,
Cisco,
data center networks,
Networking,
openflow,
shortest path bridging,
software-defined networking,
TRILLMany of the bloggers who have analyzed and reported on the news of Insieme, Cisco's latest spin-in, have talked about how the
February 29, 2012 4:59 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Arista Networks,
Cisco,
data center networks,
Extreme Networks,
Juniper,
Juniper QFabric,
Networking,
NexusThe BlackDiamond X8, which Extreme Networks first announced last spring, is now shipping. If you are struggling with density and oversubscription...
May 10, 2011 10:47 AM
Posted by: SusanFogarty
Cisco,
data center networks,
Interop,
Networking,
Routing and switchingInterop 2011 promises to be the most interesting networking conference...
March 31, 2011 12:35 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Catalyst 6500,
Cisco,
cisco nexus 1000v,
cisco switching,
data center networks,
firewalls,
Networking,
NexusFor networking pros who want to segment and secure internal traffic, the Firewall Services Module (FWSM) for the Catalyst 6500 chassis has been a workhorse. But given that it's based on Cisco's old...
February 2, 2011 5:23 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
converged networks,
data center networks,
FCoE,
Gartner,
iSCSI,
NAS,
Networking,
StorageApparently attendees at Gartner's Data Center Summit held in Las Vegas last month weren't too enthusiastic on Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as an avenue toward data center network convergence. In a...
