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Broadcom launches adapter chip for Fiber Channel over Ethernet

Broadcom's first processor for FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is now coming on the market in network adapters qualified by EMC, backed by claims it is 80 percent faster than any other FCoE component.
Apple releases patches for Boot Camp, MacBook firmware

Apple on Thursday released several patches for its Boot Camp software as well as firmware updates for its MacBook and 13-inch MacBook Pro.
Engineers demand price drop for 100G ethernet

Though demand for 40G and 100G Ethernet is on the rise, prices need to come down to earth before mainstream adoption can occur, experts at an Ethernet conference said here this week.
Intel buys data centre Ethernet vendor

Intel has acquired the assets of NetEffect, a maker of Ethernet chips and adapters for high-performance computing clusters, for $8 million (£4.5 million).
XenServer taps Chelsio's unified 10G Ethernet

10G Ethernet provides big performance gains for virtualised systems, as long as the network adapter can offload the "heavy lifting" from the host server, said Chelsio Communications as it announced that the latest release 4.1 of Citrix XenServer now includes drivers for its Unified Wire 10G NICs as standard.
Neterion launches 10 Gig adapters for VMs

Neterion has announced a new 10Gbit Ethernet series of adapters that it claimed can enhance the I/O performance of virtual machines.
Adaptec and Isilon produce new storage gear

Adaptec has a new version of its network attached storage, the SnapServer 650 - designed for data-heavy applications such as databases, email and video surveillance.
D-Link offers low-cost PoE upgrade
HP launches entry-level Itanium server
Neterion virtualises Ethernet in hardware

10Gig blade NIC to support virtual I/O for security and resource sharing.

Latest Features

Goodbye BIOS: A simple guide to UEFI

If you have used a PC during the last three decades or so, you should be familiar with the PC?s Basic Input/Output System, or BIOS. The fact that it has been around for so long should also be all the indication you need that it has outlived its usefulness.
How clouds and fibre has remade the data centre

A major transformation is sweeping over data centre switching. Over the next few years the old switching equipment needs to be replaced with faster and more flexible switches.
A guide to Wi-Fi power-save technologies

Saving power on client devices may not always work well, but the industry has come up with plenty of ways to do it.
Virtual servers drive 10G Ethernet

Server virtualisation is demanding 10GB Ethernet adapters that are virtualisation-aware, say developers on both sides.
Is Fibre Channel dead?

The Fibre Channel killers are iSCSI and 10 gig Ethernet.
The reality of virtual servers

Although it may seem like magic, server virtualisation is real, and it's giving admins unprecedented control over enterprise data centres.

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