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Avaya SME switches to rival Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent products
Avaya has unveiled low-end Ethernet switches for small and midsize enterprises and remote branches that include features usually found in higher-end enterprise-class switches.
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Dell brings 40-Gigabit Ethernet into its PowerEdge blade system
Dell will flesh out its new virtual networking strategy at Interop next month when it shows off a 40-Gigabit Ethernet switch for its PowerEdge M1000e blade system, extends its management software and shows its equipment working with the OpenFlow standard for SDN (software-defined networking).
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'Big Data high-speed railway' pledge from ex-Vertica CEO Chris Lynch
Chris Lynch wants to be Big Data's Big Daddy, with plans to back 20 startups on the East Coast of the US that deal with data sets characterised by "volume, velocity and variety."
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Intel Crystal Forest chipset targets networking gap
Intel has introduced the Crystal Forest chipset, which the company hopes will fill a networking gap as it tries to build an integrated technology stack for data centres.
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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.
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Avaya rolls out ERS 4000 series extensions
Avaya has rolled out extensions to its 4000 series switches and said its year-old virtualised networking architecture is taking hold in campuses and data centres.
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Brocade debuts new VDX switches, network capacity on demand
Brocade has unveiled an infrastructure procurement model designed for cloud computing, along with additions to its new VDX data centre switch line.
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Dell to extend virtualised data centre line
At the Interop trade show this week, Dell will expand its networking, server and storage product lines to help users migrate from legacy data centres to those more heavily reliant on virtualisation.
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Cisco unveils expansion of data centre portfolio
Cisco this week is expanding its data centre product portfolio with a new switch, extensions to existing ones and enhancements to its servers and software.
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Arista Networks drives latency below 500 nanoseconds with data centre switch
Arista Networks this week unveiled a data centre switch boasting sub-500-nanosecond latency for financial market trading applications.
