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HP takes giant step into OpenFlow networking

HP is taking its first leap into OpenFlow-enabled network equipment, supporting the standard on 16 of its Ethernet switch products as it attempts to gain a foothold in a market likely to receive significant attention from competitors.
Cisco adds 40/100G Ethernet to switch range

Cisco this week unveiled significant extensions to both of its major switching lines with the addition of 40/100G Ethernet capabilities.
Epson adds three new printers to WorkForce line

Epson introduced three new wide-format printers to its WorkForce line on Tuesday. The printers include all-in-ones WorkForce WF-7520 and WorkForce WF-7510, along with the single-function inkjet Workforce WF-7010. Each offers small businesses and creative professionals high quality wide-format printing and scanning capabilities.
Nimbus announces E-Class Memory System all-NAND flash storage

Nimbus Data Systems has announced the new E-Class Memory System all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centres that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else.
Cisco Ethernet switches make big leap to 40/100G

Cisco this week unveiled significant extensions to both of its major switching lines with the addition of 40/100G Ethernet capabilities.
IBM and NEC team up to offer OpenFlow networking products

IBM and NEC have partnered to offer OpenFlow-based networking products to joint customers.
Undersea Arctic telecom route could be possible with global warming

"Harnessing Disruption: Global, Mobile, Social, Local," was the theme at the 34rd Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conference last week in Honolulu.
Intel buying Qlogic InfiniBand to aid exaflop HPC programmes

Intel announced yesterday that it had agreed to buy parts of Qlogic's InfiniBand business as the chip maker looks to provide storage and server bandwidth that will allow systems to achieve exaflop computing.
Micron bags UK virtualisation vendor Virtensys

SSD-maker Micron Technology announced it has signed an agreement to purchase Virtensys, a maker of PCIe virtualisation appliance.
Need to get onto Amazon's Cloud? Now you can connect in London

Amazon Web Services has added four locations where enterprises can use its Direct Connect network service to communicate with its cloud, the company said on Tuesday.

Latest Features

British Newspaper Archive: Digitising the nation's memory

Consuming content in digital form has become the norm for many of us. We watch videos on smartphones, we skim the news on tablets, we share photos on social networks and we read books on e-readers. But in a world where digital rules, where does a traditional organisation like The British Library fit in?
Juniper Networks' financial challenges continue

Juniper Networks' challenges are due to timing with new product rollouts and shifts in investments from customers and channel partners.
A first look at Windows 8 - the OS for everything

The first public beta for Windows 8 is expected to be released in February, but we've been testing pre-beta code in our lab. Our overall impression is that Windows 8 represents an aggressive effort by Microsoft to deliver a single OS that runs just about everywhere and takes on all of Microsoft's key rivals.
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.
Home networks given new options at CES

Your IPTV needs an internet connection. But your living room is too far from your router to run an Ethernet cable, so what do you do? Or perhaps you have an office in the basement and need to transmit large files to the desktop down there, but the Wi-Fi keeps cutting out due to interference. Several companies demonstrated at CES various different answers to such dilemmas, but with a common theme: it was that no room in your house should be left unconnected.
Fabric wars: Cisco vs. Brocade vs. Juniper

The past three years have been very noisy on the data center fabric and architecture front. Every quarter seems to bring about a new convergence blueprint from another vendor - and a variety from one or two.
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.
Why is converged I/O in data centres taking so long?

So if converging the I/O infrastructure in data centres is all the rage, what's taking IT shops so long to do it?
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.
Five technology breakthroughs that could change computing forever

We explore advances in how we access the Net, how we power our devices and how we interact with them.

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