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At the Optical Transport Conference News, a 100G Party
March 21st, 2013 : John RathAt the OFC/NFOEC conference in Anaheim, California this week several vendors have competing 100G technology announcements, fueling the need to drive big data through ultra-fast networks. Read More
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Network News: Mellanox Launches Open Ethernet Initiative
March 7th, 2013 : John RathMellanox Technologies (MLNX) announced the "Generation of Open Ethernet" initiative, an alternative approach to traditional closed-code Ethernet switches. Plus networking sector news from Cisco and ADARA. Read More
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Pertino Raises $20M to Bring Cloud Networking to SMBs
March 7th, 2013 : Jason VergePertino looks to bring SDN-powered wide-area networks to the masses, and has just raised $20 million towards that aim. Read More
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Can IPS Devices and Firewalls Stop DDoS Threats?
February 27th, 2013 : Bill KleymanCloud computing and the growing usage of the Internet has placed even greater demands on a corporate data center. Now, organizations are relying more and more on their IT infrastructure to be the mechanism to drive growth and enable agility. Because of this focus on the data center, concerns around security have continued to grow as well. As a result, the growing scale and frequency of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are taking a toll on these businesses. Read More
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BTI Systems Launches SDN-Enabled Platform
February 26th, 2013 : John RathBTI Systems, a Canadian networking software and systems company unveiled Intelligent Cloud Connect, an open software-rich platform that combines network intelligence and application awareness with significantly expanded capacity and scale. Read More
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Network News: Juniper Targets Mobile Services
February 25th, 2013 : John RathJuniper Networks (JNPR) enables new mobile software and services, Ciena (CIEN) and Telefonica launch 100G network in Brazil, Brocade(BRCD) selected by Redstone. Read More
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Cyan Unveils Compact 100G Optical Technology
February 20th, 2013 : John RathCyan announced the availability of a single‐slot 100G coherent transponder for the Z‐Series family of packet‐optical transport platforms (P‐OTPs). Delivering 100G in a single slot module allows its service provider and enterprise customers to experience the highest networking speeds in a smaller form factor. Read More
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Making the Case for DDoS Protection
February 19th, 2013 : Bill KleymanAside from establishing a solid DDoS attack prevention plan – administrators must know how to budget for solutions and communicate these changes. Many times, the communication process will revolve around non-IT people. Read More
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Deal Roundup: VMware to Acquire Virsto
February 12th, 2013 : John RathVMware (VMW) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire "software-defined storage" player Virsto Software, F5 Networks (FFIV) to buy LineRate in SDN play, Radware acquired performance acceleration specialist Strangeloop Networks. Read More
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
