data center

Brocade’s last quarter: Is a sale its best option?

One of the players that might be feeling some pressure from an HP/3Com deal, namely Brocade, says it’s not for sale. The company is a combination of storage networking and the acquisition of Foundry, a high-end Ethernet switch vendor. In its present form, it’s a pretty pure data center play...

HP’s 3Com acquisition: Vendor market activity spurred the move

HP has made a somewhat-surprise move and acquired 3Com, a venerable but now fallen giant in the networking field, and the move is very...

Cisco/EMC joint venture: private & public cloud data center strategy

Cisco, EMC and VMware have formed a joint venture called “Acadia” to promote a new...

Juniper/Dell OEM deal validates rising IT power in the data center

Juniper has announced an OEM deal with Dell that will have the latter re-skinning the MX, EX, and SRX products and offering them as a part of the Dell PowerConnect brand. The deal is a...

Cisco and Oracle look to change data center landscape

Oracle and Cisco may change the landscape in the data center if the companies continue to pursue their current tracks, according to most pundits, and we...

Juniper and IBM Ethernet OEM deal focuses on data center

Juniper and IBM have announced an OEM arrangement that will allow IBM to label and sell Juniper’s Ethernet products designed for the data center. The pact covers selected models in the EX and MX lines and is similar to the deal already signed by IBM with Brocade.

The news is very good...

Juniper/NYSE join forces on data center design

Juniper and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced a joint project to create a new ultra-low-latency data center design that the exchange will deploy in both its NYC metro and London metro data...

VMware virtual infrastructure sparks vendor positioning flurry

The next version of VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure, named vSphere 4.0, was announced with a flurry of high-level endorsements from Cisco, Dell, Intel and EMC.

The...

Cisco’s blade server market entry: Can it work?

Cisco is expected to launch its blade server project “California” today, and there is a lot of disagreement over just what’s coming. Some predict Cisco...

Juniper focuses on preparing for economic upturn

Juniper’s analyst event was a tour de force by any standard, and especially good for a company that has had problems communicating its value proposition in this kind of forum. Juniper related its position...