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  • Next-generation server virtualisation

    Virtualisation has swept the enterprise and its success has driven new innovation in hardware, software and security practices, as IT organisations demand greater performance, manageability and security from their virtualised infrastructure.

  • High-speed Ethernet planning guide

    Standards-based 40- and 100-gigabit Ethernet switches and routers are starting to show up in enterprise networks, following ratification of the IEEE 802.3ba specification in mid-2010.

  • The tyranny of terrible tech support

    I stumbled across this nonsense while setting up a new toy, er, product here in the Gibbs Universal Industries Secret Underground Bunker.

  • Brocade applies storage knowledge to flat networking

    It's no secret that Fibre Channel storage vendor Brocade has long coveted a piece of the next-generation data centre network. The company made that clear with its 2008 acquisition of Ethernet switch vendor Foundry Networks.

  • Juniper lays out flat network roadmap

    From its position in the switching trenches, Juniper Networks has planned not one, but two ways to flatten legacy three-tier data centre networks.

  • IEEE to standardise virtual data centre switching

    Cisco, HP and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new IEEE Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers.

  • Rivals offer switch alternatives to Cisco

    Cisco have dominated the enterprise switching market for years. Can other vendors muscle in with better value products, or will Cisco's market clout hold off all-comers?

  • Cisco and HP gear up for battle in data centre

    Cisco's foray into the server market has been talked about for some months now. What has not been so widely discussed is HP's attack on Cisco's territory with a new range of ProCurve switches - it all adds up to a tasty battle.

  • Cisco ready to take on data centres

    Cisco has dominated the newtorking market but it's now casting envious eyes on the data centre in a bid to become a dominant player there, treading on the toes of some of its partners in the process. How will the company shape up in this new arena?

  • Cisco's router launch goes social

    Its new ASR1000 arrives with a video game and its own Facebook group.





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