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Cisco and Microsoft cooperate on products for Windows Server 8
Windows Server 8 looks promising enough that Cisco it is queuing up two new products designed to extend its network controls to Hyper-V virtual environments when Microsoft releases Windows Server 8 sometime next year.
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IEEE and IETF split over data centre network standards
The industry appears deeply fractured over the best approach to data centre networks, with some vendors backing the IETF's TRILL, some backing the IEEE's SPB, others offering proprietary protocols and still others advocating a combination of approaches.
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Ethernet vendor Myricom expands beyond HPC market
Myricom, a pioneer in high performance computing that has shifted its focus to more mainstream networking applications in recent years, has named co-founder Nan Boden as its new president and CEO.
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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.
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Emulex touts do-it-all 10Gig Ethernet card
Storage networking specialist Emulex wants to recast itself as a data centre networking specialist, via a push into converged 10Gig Ethernet. It claimed that its latest 10Gbit/s converged network adapter (CNA) does just about everything a physical or virtual server might need.
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Mellanox woos data centres with 40Gbits/s Infiniband
InfiniBand stalwart Mellanox wants data centres to adopt 40Gbits/s InfiniBand as their primary high-speed converged network fabric.
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Gig card adds encryption and compression
A Gigabit Ethernet card that includes built-in data compression and encryption could be ideal for IP-based storage applications such as remote backup and data replication, its developer Hifn has claimed.
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Rackable prods new server at enterprises
Rackable Systems, best known for providing servers to large Internet companies, is aiming for a bigger slice of the enterprise market with its new C2005 server.
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Computacenter links up with Xsigo
Computacenter has agreed a formal tie-up with Xsigo Systems, a technology leader in I/O virtualisation.
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New Apple server twice as fast as predecessor
Apple has updated its 1U rackmount Xserve; the company claimed the new server is up to twice as fast as its predecessor.
