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The cloud's the limit for new Arista, Brocade and HP switches
Cloud scaling will be all the switching rage at this week?s Interop. Three major vendors last week took their platforms deeper into and then beyond the data center, outdueling each other on server access density and software programmability, two key attributes needed for the virtualized goldmine called the cloud. And in so doing, they have raised the bar and perhaps set the stage for one of the more anticipated announcements in SDN switching from Cisco spin-in Insieme.
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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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OASIS: MQTT to be the protocol for the Internet of Things
Setting the foundation for what may be a multitrillion-dollar marketplace, OASIS (the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has declared MQTT (the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) as its messaging protocol of choice for the emerging Internet of Things.
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Open Data Centre Alliance: Virtual machines inching to portability
While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are seeking, according to a study released by the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA).
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Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop
Merging the worlds of big data and cloud computing, Red Hat, Hortonworks and Hadoop integrator Mirantis are jointly building a software program, called Savanna, that will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service.
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Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution
Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition of this distribution for those who sign up for an early adopter program.
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OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug
HP, NetApp, and an array of cloud startups roll out new cloud offerings built around OpenStack Grizzly
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Red Hat JBoss Data Grid now spans data centres
Red Hat has revised its JBoss Data Grid software package, which now offers the ability to replicate copies of data across different data centres, and also comes with a number of other new features that can limit downtime.
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HP to announce Project Moonshot hyperscale servers next week
Hewlett-Packard next week will unveil a class of hyperscale servers as part of Project Moonshot, the company's attempt to build densely packed low-power servers that can scale performance quickly.
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Atul Jha likes to stay up-to-date on the latest and greatest in the tech world; after all, that's part of his job as a consultant and technology evangelist for CSS Corp., which is co-headquartered in Silicon Valley and India.
