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John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management.

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Akamai Partners To Deliver Federal Mobile Authentication
April 19th, 2013 : John Rath
Akamai Technologies (AKAM) announced that in collaboration with Daon, a leader in identity authentication technology and services, the two companies will offer Mobile Authentication as a Service (MAaaS) for federal employees. Read More
Network News: Mellanox Launches Cloud Interconnect
April 19th, 2013 : John Rath
Mellanox Launches ConnectX03Pro hardware offload engines to support virtualized overlay networks, Level 3 names Jeff Storey as new CEO, Avaya innovates fabric-enabled networking. Read More
OpenStack Summit: Focus on Hadoop Support, File-Sharing
April 19th, 2013 : John Rath
As the Portland OpenStack Summit draws to a close, Hortonworks, VMware, and NetApp all had announcements. Among the focus areas include support for Apache Hadoop and a potential file-sharing service. Read More
Equinix Powers Low-Latency Video Ad Exchange
April 18th, 2013 : John Rath
Equinix (EQIX) and video advertising platform company Brightroll announced they are bringing to market an ultra-low-latency video advertising real-time bidding (RTB) solution. Plus customer wins from Interxion (INXN), Latisys and Phoenix NAP. Read More
New Intel Architectures Equip Networks for SDN
April 18th, 2013 : John Rath
Intel (INTC) wants to help equip service providers and telcos for the new world of software defined networking (SDN). The company this week rolled out reference architectures to accelerate hardware and software development for SDN and network function virtualization (NFV). Read More
Instart Logic Gets $17M to Optimize Networks for Content
April 17th, 2013 : John Rath
Cloud-based web publishing service provider Instart Logic emerged from stealth Wednesday, with a $17 million Series B funding round. The company offers a cloud-based service for web publishers that is a radical departure from traditional CDN and web optimization offerings. Read More
Xen Project To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
April 17th, 2013 : John Rath
The Linux Foundation and Citrix announced that Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Started ten years ago, the Xen Project open source virtualization platform has led to Citrix XenServer, a powerful cloud platform. Read More
Pivot Data Centres Building Bigger in Alberta
April 17th, 2013 : John Rath
Pivot Data Centres announced the construction of an 80,000 square feet data center in the greater Calgary area. When complete later this year the expansion will have 450 racks, with capacity for over 1,000 total. Read More
Midokura Launches MidoNet Network Virtualization Platform
April 17th, 2013 : John Rath
At the OpenStack Summit this week in Portland, Midokura announced the general availability of MidoNet, a distributed software-defined virtual network solutions specifically designed for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Read More