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- Cisco Data Center Ethernet: Network Architecture for Data Center 3.0 - At-A-Glance
- Cisco Data Center Ethernet is an architecture based on a collection of open-standard Ethernet extensions to improve and expand Ethernet networking and management capabilities in the data center. It helps ensure delivery over lossless fabrics, I/O consolidation onto a unified fabric, and increased bisectional bandwidth with multipathing at Layer 2....
- White papers 2008-03-27
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- IBM bolsters Juniper pact; Reseller deal with Cisco
- IBM took its relationship with Juniper up a notch by announcing and original equipment manufacturer deal. Big Blue also announced deals with Brocade and Cisco. Under the Juniper deal, the latest in a string of IBM-Juniper collaborations, IBM will rebrand and sell Juniper EX and MX switches and routers...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System
- Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him. Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Optimum Ultra: So how fast is it?
- Optimum Online's $99 per month Ultra DOCSIS 3.0 service is one of fastest residential broadband offerings available today. But is it really "Up to" 101Mbps as advertised? As I mentioned in a post last week about broadband service outages, Last Friday, I was...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Emulex to Broadcom's merger overture: No thanks
- Emulex on Monday said its board has rejected Broadcom's unsolicited takeover offer at $9.25 a share. In a statement, Paul Folino, chairman of Emulex's board, said the Broadcom offer was an "opportunistic attempt" to get the company on the cheap. Emulex argued that Broadcom knew that the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- HP answers Cisco with Matrix; Data center visions galore
- Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled its answer to making data centers more modular and more cost effective and the target is pretty clear: Cisco Systems. HP's latest entry into the data center wars is dubbed the BladeSystem Matrix and Matrix Orchestration Environment. These products reside in HP's Adaptive...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Cisco launches bid to capture the data center
- Cisco Systems has just launched what it considers a "critical step" in its Data Center 3.0 strategy, promising an ecosystem of partners which include chipmaker Intel, tech consultancy Accenture, virtualization software provider VMWare, Microsoft, the labs unit of enterprise software firm SAP, storage maker EMC and...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Cisco's expected Unified Computing System splash raises a data center ruckus
- Cisco Systems on Monday is widely expected to launch network servers in a move that will put it in the virtualization business and potentially at odds with players like Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Cisco says it's merely doing what it has always done---investing in "market adjacencies during times that may cause...
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Architecture: The Building Blocks of the Unified Fabric
- Cisco has designed the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches to be the best solution for high bandwidth, low-latency, and access-layer switches for rack deployments. In the context of I/O consolidation, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches is also the basis for a unified network fabric that can help simplify data...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Realize Energy Efficiency with Unified Fabrics - Cisco Whitepaper
- The Cisco Nexus family of products helps transform data center infrastructure from an isolated fabric topology IFT to a unified fabric topology UFT. UFTs use Data Center Ethernet technologies at 10 Gbps, providing wire-speed lossless fabric and enabling server I/O consolidation and Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE. Additionally, UFTs allow...
- White papers 2008-12-02
- Addressing virtualization's achilles heel
- The benefits of virtualization are quite obvious but when you start to really increase the density of virtual machines in order to maximize utilization suddenly it ain't such a simple proposition. The latest CPUs from AMD and Intel are more than up to the task of running 10-20 or more...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Dell strives to make it easier to be green with FlexAddress
- In the scheme of green things, Dell's PowerEdge M-Series blades could be described as emerald. Now, the company is trying to make it easier for data center managers to opt for them, with a new patent-pending tool called Dell FlexAddress. Glenn Keels, director, global relationship marketing...
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Transforming the Data Center with Unified Fabric
- Is Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE really the long-awaited breakthrough that will transparently integrate your network servers and storage, or is it simply the latest industry hype? Get the answers and expert insights from some of the most distinguished networking engineers in the industry on this 60-minute TechWiseTV video broadcast...
- Webcasts 2008-05-29
- Cisco MDS 9000 Family: Total Investment Protection
- Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency networks that improve data center scalability and manageability while controlling IT costs. As discussed in this paper the Cisco MDS 9000 Family provides the leading high-density, high-bandwidth storage networking solution along with Integrated Fabric Applications to support dynamic data...
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Cisco Nexus 5000 and Emulex LP21000
- Data Center managers are challenged to keep pace with continuous growth while managing capital, operational and facilities costs. Organizations have turned to server virtualization as a means of reigning in the costs by consolidating applications on virtual servers. Increases in SAN attachment have gone hand in hand. Fibre Channel over...
- White papers 2008-05-01
- Converging SAN and LAN Infrastructure With Fibre Channel Over Ethernet for Efficient, Cost-Effective Data Centers
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE is an emerging data transport technology that simplifies the network fabric by converging both Storage Area Network SAN and LAN connectivity onto a single 10 Gigabit Ethernet link. As the use of SANs in the data center continues to grow, FCoE can decrease the cost...
- White papers 2008-04-22
- Cisco refreshes green data center act with new Nexus switch
- Cisco is latching onto the green data center consolidation movement with a new line of switches called the Nexus 5000 series. The company also is making it more attractive for its VARs and resellers to create a data center practice through new incentives that will kick in come August. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- The cheapest way to do VoIP is still analog
- The cheapest way to do VoIP is still analogVery interesting!But these are probably more than I need at home. kiddingThanks George for a good topic!WiringThe problem with splitting out to analog is all the wiring punch down that has to be done. Being able to use an IP phone...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Data Center Ethernet: Cisco's Innovation for Data Center Networks
- Cisco has developed standards-based extensions to Ethernet for data center networks to support new capabilities. This paper talks about Cisco's continuing innovations in Ethernet data center networks to provide support for new application demands. The paper also talks about the Cisco Data Center Ethernet architecture enhancements that improve the robustness...
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Cloud computing - in your dreams
- A particularly odd bit of goofiness has hit the infosphere: cloud/utility computing mania. Nick Carr has written a book. IBM has announced, for the umpteenth time, a variation on utility computing, now called cloud computing. Somebody at Sun is claiming they'll get rid of all their data centers by 2015....
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
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