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Cisco nemesis Huawei to demo 96-port 100G Ethernet switch at Interop

Huawei, Cisco's toughest competitor in networking, will debut its entry into enterprise data center switching at this week's Interop 2012 conference in Las Vegas.
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.
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).
Lightweight Gigabit Ethernet cables offered for car networking

Ethernet has gained speed many times, and now it may be about to lose weight.
'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."
Rushes boosts network capacity with Brocade Ethernet fabric

Post-production and visual effects company Rushes is using Brocade's VCS Fabric technology and VDX 6720 Data Center Switches to boost network capacity, in order to meet increasing bandwidth demand from high-definition CGI content and real-time digital workflows.
Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6450 to challenge Cisco and HP

Alcatel-Lucent are set tp unveil a new Ethernet switch - the OmniSwitch 6450 - for enterprise campus networks that is designed to extend voice, data and video convergence to the wiring closet and access tier.
Amazon hails era of 'utility supercomputing'

Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services is heralding the era of utility supercomputing, whereby massive computational resources and storage requirements can be accessed on demand.
Dell PowerEdge 12G server takes aim at new HP Proliant Gen8

Dell took shots at rival HP and made a further effort to reposition itself beyond its roots as a PC manufacturer with the release of its 12th generation blade, rack and tower PowerEdge servers along with native 10 Gigabit Ethernet support across its servers, storage and networking products.
Carrier Ethernet 2 standardisation aims for global connectivity

The Metro Ethernet Forum has updated its Carrier Ethernet specification, hoping to standardise the use of Ethernet for global multicarrier services.

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?
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?
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.
How HP can win in the data centre

HP and Cisco are currently embroiled in a war of words, market share and revenue in Ethernet switching overall, but can HP really put up much of a fight in the data centre?
Cisco Cius: A hands on preview

Toss all preconceptions of the Cisco Cius out the door. This is not just another Android tablet. Instead, Cisco has taken great pains to position the Cius as a very different type of tablet. This is one device whose primary purpose lies less in competing head-to-head with the tablet masses, and more at changing how the enterprise does business.
A simple guide to Windows Home Server 2011

Microsoft's original Windows Home Server was both crude and groundbreaking. When it debuted, it had limited hardware support, no 64-bit version and weak built-in capabilities beyond file and app storage. On the other hand, it offered robust backup, reasonable security and drive extender, a feature that simplified the tasks of adding and pooling hard drives.
How Fibre Channel over Ethernet went from fee to free

With demand for FCoE more sluggish than vendors had hoped, 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch and adapter makers are making it available for free.
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.
Apple Mac mini is a small business server

Apple's cigar box desktop, better known as the Mac mini, has always been something of an oddball. Like the rest of Cupertino's hardware lineup, the mini is sleek, shiny, and stylish. But this miniature, monitor-less desktop has a much higher geek quotient than Apple's more polished consumer offerings like the MacBook, iMac, or iPhone. There's a tinkerer's quality to the Mac mini, a device that's never seemed to have a clearly defined niche.

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Featured White Papers

IT management optimised for the virtual data centre

This white paper introduces the EMC Ionix portfolio and architecture in market and industry context.
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10 Gigabit Ethernet Virtual Data Centre Architectures

There are plenty of advantages in consolidation within a datacentre - particularly when it offers an opportunity to work with 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
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Comparing Cluster Interconnects

This document presents a comparative analysis of the performance of LS-DYNA, a finite element analysis application, using two interconnect and fabric technologies: Gigabit Ethernet and Cisco® InfiniBand.
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Oracle RAC over InfiniBand

With Oracle support of IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB), Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) customers can now take advantage of greatly improved performance and scalability while using a scalable number of inexpensive high-performance servers.
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Comparing Cluster Interconnects: LS-DYNA Performance Benchmarks over Gigabit Ethernet and Cisco InfiniBand

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