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...
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...
October 3, 2011 1:28 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
cloud,
IT certification and training,
Juniper,
Junos,
junosphere,
network design,
network lab,
NetworkingJuniper Networks today introduced a new version of its cloud-based network engineering lab, Junosphere. The new version, Junosphere Lab, gives enterprises and services providers cloud-based access...
July 21, 2011 4:48 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
3Com,
Alcatel-Lucent,
Brocade,
Cisco,
Dell,
Force10,
Foundry,
H3C,
HP 3com acquisition,
HP Networking,
Juniper,
mergers & acquisitions,
NetworkingWith Dell buying Force10 Networks, Brocade seeking a buyer and Alcatel-Lucent looking to shed its enterprise business, does anyone want to be in the networking industry anymore?
Which narrative would you like to believe?
- The networking industry is more competitive than ever with...
May 24, 2011 3:31 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Dell'Oro,
Juniper,
Networking,
switchesJuniper Networks' EX switching business nosedived in the first quarter of 2011, so what does it mean? The people who run the numbers aren't forecasting doom and gloom at all. However, they would like to see Juniper get more sales engineers out in the field.
Juniper's switching revenue dropped by...
February 17, 2011 2:07 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Check Point,
Cisco,
firewalls,
Juniper,
Network security,
Networking,
virtualization network,
virtualization securityIn data centers virtualization has created a bit of a network security black hole for engineers. Firewalls have no problem applying and enforcing security policies to server-to-server traffic in a data center, but traffic between virtual machines (VMs) on a virtualized server is another story.
A...
December 1, 2010 6:33 PM
Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Arista Networks,
career,
Cisco,
Cisco certification,
Cisco IOS emulator,
IT certification and training,
Juniper,
Juniper JUNOS emulator,
Networking,
networking careers,
VyattaHave you ever noticed that networking vendors rarely address the subject of emulators built with their router software? To some degree, network engineers seem fine with this. As long as Cisco looks the other way, engineers can continue to use