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Brocade unleashes a data centre barrage
Brocade this week extended its data centre networking portfolio with hardware and software enhancements designed to better integrate and align physical and virtual resources.
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Big-data science requires SDN, says research network chief
Software-defined networking in universities today is like the early Internet decades ago, and big-data researchers in genomics and other fields already need it for their next set of discoveries, according to the head of Internet2.
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Intel lays foundations for SDN gear that could shake up networking
If software-defined networking ultimately changes the landscape of networking, Intel could be one of the biggest beneficiaries -- and might be one of the reasons the change occurs.
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Alcatel-Lucent, Telefónica trial 100, 200 and 400G bps links on live network
Alcatel-Lucent and Telefónica in Spain have successfully completed a trial that sent a mixture of 100Gbps, 200Gbps and 400Gbps data links over a single fiber pair.
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Driven by 10G, Ethernet switches buck economic headwinds
The Ethernet switch market eked out modest growth in 2012 against the backdrop of an uncertain global economy, underscored by weakness in Europe and lower public sector spending.
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Intel tweaks Hadoop for Xeon processors
Intel has released its own Hadoop distribution in a move intended to accelerate adoption of the Big Data platform while ensuring more of those workloads run on Intel's own Xeon processors.
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Intel releases Hadoop software tuned for its own chips
Intel has released its own Hadoop distribution in a move intended to accelerate adoption of the big data platform while ensuring more of those workloads run on Intel's own Xeon processors.
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Redstone improves cloud offering with new Ethernet data centre network
Managed services provider Redstone has updated its main UK data centres with a new network architecture with the aim of improving its service to cloud customers.
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Dell extends data centre networking portfolio
Dell this week extended its data centre networking portfolio with a new top-of-rack switch and plans to extend OpenFlow support for software-defined networking across its product line.
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New specifications to ease delivery of carrier Ethernet services
Service providers will be able to launch Ethernet services more quickly and make them work across other carriers more easily with a new set of standards for carrier Ethernet equipment, backers of the specifications say.
