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Videos Interop 2012 - Interview with Brian Monkman of ICSA Labs

10 May 2012

Peter Silva interviews Brian Monkman, ICSA Labs' Technology Programs Manager, about ICSA certification, the importance of 3rd party tests, how ICSA conducts their certification testing along with Breaking News that the BIG-IP Family is now ICSA Certified for IPSec!!

News Barracuda Networks Launches Massive 90TB Backup Appliance

10 May 2012

Barracuda Backup Server 1090 Redefines Purpose-Built-Backup-Appliance Scalability

Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of content security, data protection and application delivery solutions, today announced the new Barracuda Backup Server 1090, one of the largest backup appliances on the market. With model 1090, Barracuda Backup, Barracuda’s number one selling product line, extends its flexible and simplified backup capabilities to protect even larger environments with 90TB of storage and allows customers to manage all their backups on a single platform.

News Brocade Networks Help Leading Web-Hosting Firm Manage Doubling Growth Rates While Meeting Service Level Agreements

09 May 2012

Brocade NetIron CER Series routers and Brocade ServerIron ADX Series application delivery switches help CatN increase service performance and reliability for customers including one of the world’s leading leisure travel groups

In order to keep pace with the UK’s growing “connected” population - which has risen by 234 percent over the past decade – Web-focused companies must also continue to grow while meeting their service level agreements (SLAs). To meet this challenge, one of the UK’s fastest growing Web hosting firms, CatN, a Fubra group company, recently turned to Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) to deliver a load balancing solution that could provide the performance, reliability and scalability it urgently needed.

News Sparebanken Vest Banks on Avaya for Future-Proofed Network Infrastructure Upgrade

08 May 2012

Upgrade supports server virtualisation and migration path and future proofs network investment

Reduces provision and management of services and improves network reliability

Sparebanken Vest, one of Norway’s oldest banks, has chosen Avaya’s Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA) as part of a project to upgrade the bank’s network infrastructure and support its move to a virtualised server environment.

Videos Interop 2012 - F5 in the Interop NOC

08 May 2012

Peter Silva visits with Ken Bocchino of the F5 Professional Services Team to share & show how F5 is providing many of the critical infrastructure components of the largest temporary network in the world.

News Dr Rupert Ogilvie outlines how visualising your data can be the key to successfully managing it

01 May 2012

Dr Rupert Ogilvie outlines how visualising your data can be the key to successfully managing it

Dr Rupert Ogilvie, Optimisation Consultant at Intergence, an IT optimisation consultancy based in Cambridge, has outlined how data visualisation can help manage Big Data that is often too unwieldy to capture, manage, and process within a reasonable amount of time. 

News ShoreTel Reports Financial Results For Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2012

01 May 2012

Completes M5 Cloud IP Telephony Acquisition

ShoreTel®, the leading provider of brilliantly simple premise and cloud-based business phone system and communication solutions with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012, which ended March 31, 2012.

Videos PeakColo, Service Provider, Selects Brocade for Network Scalability

18 Apr 2012

Luke Norris, PeakColo CEO, shares why they chose Brocade for their network: reliability and scalability. "Enterprise scalability is not enough anymore." PeakColo is a leading provider of enterprise-class Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) technology solutions.

News Barracuda Networks Launches Integrated Data Protection and Backup for Virtual and Physical Environments

18 Apr 2012

New Barracuda Backup Services Introduces VMware Support

Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of content security, data protection and application delivery solutions, today announced the new Barracuda Backup Service with VMware host support, allowing customers to quickly and efficiently back up and restore guest virtual machines. The new service also provides deduplicated images of virtual servers that can be transferred offsite for comprehensive disaster recovery protection. This new functionality is available free of charge for existing Barracuda Backup Service customers with an active Energize Update subscription.

News Arthur D. Little and Exane BNP Paribas: Core European telco revenues to decline by 1.8% p.a. until 2015

17 Apr 2012

But big diversification revenues and cost transformation opportunities exist for operators making the right strategic choices in their markets – operators must act now

The move to an all-IP world where everything is connected presents a major threat to telecom operators’ core voice and SMS revenues, but also significant opportunities for these operators to extract value from adjacent markets. This is one of the main findings of Telecom Operators: Let’s Face It, the 11^th edition of the annual report[1] from global management consultancy Arthur D. Little and equity broker Exane BNP Paribas.

Blog So just what is a collaborative conversation? Have you ever had one?

16 Apr 2012

Manish Sablok, Head of Marketing for CNE Europe at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, looks at how ground breaking developments in collaborative technology are enabling 'outcome driven' conversations across the enterprise.

Videos BDO - Customer Testimonial

10 Apr 2012

Accounting services and advisory firm, BDO, needed a phone system that ensured all client calls reliably reached the company's accounting professionals wherever they were -- in the office, working at home, at a client site or on the road. See how ShoreTel fit the bill.

Videos Brandeis University

10 Apr 2012

Brandeis University Upgrades to Gigabit to Address BYOD

News TeleWare Increases Choice of Wide Area Connections

29 Mar 2012

Griffin interconnect extends reach for service assurance

TeleWare, the leading provider of communications solutions for the mobile business, today announced the immediate availability of a direct interconnect between its Hosted Communications platforms and the Griffin network. This new interconnect, extends the reach of the TeleWare hosted voice services with quality of service assurances, providing customers and partners with an additional wide area connection option from an established service provider.

News Murco Petroleum saves time and money with Timico technology

13 Mar 2012

Forecourt retailer benefits from advanced secure payment back-up service ensuring complete connectivity across all UK retail sites

Independent internet service provider Timico has revealed that hundreds of Murco Petroleum service stations are now benefiting from its latest technological advancements. In an announcement made during this week’s Retail Business Technology Expo at Earl’s Court, the Nottinghamshire-based innovator explained that Murco has invested in new IT systems that will eliminate missed sales opportunities caused by the temporary loss of Internet connection, adding to advancements which have already reduced the time its managers and employees spend on admin.

News Masergy’s New Intelligent Internet Management Provides Network-Managed Control of Web Applications and Traffic

13 Mar 2012

Suite of Hosted Services Simplifies Network Security, Optimises Bandwidth
and Reduces Costs for Enterprises on the Masergy Global Network

Masergy today introduced Intelligent Internet Management (IIM), a network-based Internet security and content control solution that provides enterprises on the Masergy global network with detailed application control, proactive Web traffic monitoring and enhanced firewall features.

News Global Law Firm Linklaters Boosts Productivity, Improves Client Satisfaction and Helps Environment with Polycom® RealPresence® Immersive Video

13 Mar 2012

• Polycom RealPresence Immersive solutions implemented in 27 offices in 19 countries including London, New York, Frankfurt and Hong Kong
• Reduces travel costs and eliminates 1,900 tons of CO₂ per year
• Improves employee and client integration and productivity 

Polycom, Inc., the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC), today announced that global law firmLinklaters has deployed new Polycom RealPresence Immersive video collaboration suites (Polycom® RPX™ series) in offices around the world – including London, New York, Hong Kong and Frankfurt – to improve colleague communications, speed decision-making and boost business productivity. Polycom video collaboration has helped Linklaters, with 27 offices in 19 countries, to reduce its travel budgets by tens of thousands of dollars with further reductions expected, while also saving 1,900 tons of CO₂in just 12 months – the equivalent of taking an extra 365 family cars off the road in a year.

News New Cisco Unified Computing System Innovations Help Customers Build Clouds, Deploy Business Applications Faster

08 Mar 2012

Additions to Cisco Unified Computing System portfolio quadruple memory capacity, double switching capacity and simplify management for large-scale UCS deployments

IT organizations today are striving to establish data centers that support virtualization and cloud computing to become more competitive and agile, reduce the cost of physical infrastructure, and support the demands of data growth and Big Data analytics.  Cisco today announced innovations across the CiscoUnified Computing System™ to deliver a third-generation fabric computing platform– which integrates network, compute, virtualization and management– to address these challenges and help customers respond rapidly to changing business needs, scale their data centers, and accelerate transition to virtualization and cloud computing.

News Juniper Networks Qfabric Sets New Standard For Network Scale, Performance And Interoperability In Industry's Largest Independent Test

07 Mar 2012

Network Test and Spirent Communications Validate Juniper Networks QFabric with 1,536 10GE Port Network Fabric Test

Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, today set a new standard for data center network scale, performance and interoperability with record-breaking test results for QFabric, Juniper’s single layer data center architecture and foundation for the new network. QFabricdelivers the high performance required for big data and computationally intensive applications. The independent test, conducted by Network Test with support from Spirent Communications, is the industry’s largest yet at 1,536 10GE ports – a port count that covers a wide range of enterprise and service provider data centers.

News Actelis and 3M Services Deploy New Broadband Ethernet Solutions to Harzwasserwerke GmbH

07 Mar 2012

Actelis Networks®, The Broadband Acceleration Company™, and 3M Services GmbH (3M), part of the 3M Group, today announced at CeBIT 2012 that Harzwasserwerke GmbH (Harzwasserwerke) has selected Actelis’ high-performance Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) solutions (EFM) solutions to replace legacy Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) and outdated E1 technology. Harzwasserwerke is one of the largest suppliers of water in Germany, delivering about 90 billion litres of water annually over a system of more than 500km of pipeline.

News Brocade Unveils “The Effortless Network”

06 Mar 2012

Innovative New Brocade HyperEdge Technology and Campus LAN Switches Deliver Unmatched Automation, Scalability and Affordability

Brocade today announced unprecedented innovation in the campus LAN market with the introduction of the company’s vision for The Effortless Network. This vision is based on the new Brocade^® HyperEdge^TM technology , which is designed to deliver new levels of automation and simplification of the campus LAN lifecycle—with significant cost savings and investment protection. Brocade also introduced two additions to the Brocade ICX^TM switch family to support the company’s advancements in campus LAN technology.

News Sales Directorship for Industry Veteran Brian Myers

05 Mar 2012

TeleWare appoints Brian Myers to head up new high touch sales team

TeleWare today announced the promotion of Brian Myers to the position of Sales Director, heading up its ‘high touch’ team of sales professionals and technical sales specialists. The move consolidates TeleWare’s sales and presales teams as the company looks to continue its recent major successes, particularly in the mobile space.

News NextiraOne is First in France to Gain Cisco’s Highest Certification Level

01 Mar 2012

International communications specialist shows its mastery of technologies and Cisco culture in achieving the new Gold Certified Partner level

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has achieved Cisco’s highest level of accreditation for its three architectures. This is the first time that Cisco has awarded all three certifications to a French partner organisation at the highest level.

Blog Understanding ShoreTel

29 Feb 2012

Adrian Hipkiss, managing director EMEA, ShoreTel writes: I joined ShoreTel as Managing Director, EMEA, this past October, and was invited to meet the board in Sunnyvale, California. Playing it safe, I dressed-up but was surprised to discover a relaxed group of senior executives. A “compliment” about my tie broke the ice and set me thinking about the parallel between Silicon Valley and ShoreTel.

News SMBs find new user experience and more productivity with Alcatel-Lucent solution

28 Feb 2012

16 million SMB users already count on Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and new mobility features further their communications network investment 

Today's successful small and medium-sized businesses recognise the value of technology and collaboration. To attract a new generation of workers, businesses offering seamless business applications and tools with flexibility across devices, are discovering an increase in productivity as a result of employee engagement, and those employees deliver an increase in customer satisfaction that drives new business.

News SGH Martineau Puts Clients at Heart of Communications Infrastructure With ShoreTel

22 Feb 2012

Unified Communications ensures availability, cost savings and flexibility for law firm

ShoreTel^® (Nasdaq: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced that SGH Martineau, a significant UK law firm with offices in Birmingham, London and Brussels, has selected a ShoreTel UC system with ShoreTel Mobility to improve ease of access to fee-earners for clients, without sacrificing security or billable time capture.

News Flexible and remote working to be highlights at UC Expo 2012 ahead of Olympic Games

21 Feb 2012

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to address the issues surrounding flexible and remote working 
UC Expo Stand 604, 6-7th March – Olympia Exhibition Centre, London

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise will demonstrate its award-winning OpenTouch™ suite of multimedia communications platforms at this year's UC Expo. OpenTouch, recognised by Frost and Sullivan as the Most Innovative European Communications Product of 2011, enables any workforce to engage with each other on any device and media from any location at any time. With less than six months to go until the Olympic Games – and as the UK Transport Minister urges businesses to work flexibly during the Olympics – companies need to look at implementing new ways of working. UC Expo this year will offer a chance to see the benefits of OpenTouch and understand exactly how it can assist in seamless flexible working.

Articles HarborOne - Case Study

20 Feb 2012

With $1.8 billion in assets, HarborOne Credit Union is the largest state chartered community credit union in New England and one of the top 100 in the country. The credit union serves the financial needs of consumer and business banking customers through a network of 14 full-service branches, and a mortgage office. Established in 1917 as Brockton Credit Union, HarborOne has grown to its present size with 16 offices across New England. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and regulated by the Massachusetts Division of Banks, HarborOne continues to be a local leader in a competitive banking environment.

News UNET Selects Ciena and Telindus-ISIT for Carrier Ethernet Upgrade

17 Feb 2012

Expansion of Dutch network enables transport-class service provider services; provides reliable communications alternative for local businesses

Ciena^® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, has announced that the Dutch information and communications services provider UNET has selected Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Solutions (CES) for the expansion and upgrade of its metro and access network.

News JDSU Introduces PacketPortal™

17 Feb 2012

Breakthrough Software Platform Enables Service Providers to Profitably Scale to Billions of Connected Devices and Unpredictable Bandwidth Demand

JDSU has introduced PacketPortal™, a Smart Network Application   Platform (SNAP), that allows communications service providers to profitably scale to unprecedented bandwidth demand while providing the highest quality subscriber experience.   PacketPortal uses microprobe technology to cost-effectively gather intelligence anywhere in the network for use with a suite of customer care, marketing and other applications.  These applications give service providers a new way to drive revenue, build strong brands and command subscriber loyalty.

News Scality RING Organic Storage: Rethinking Storage for the Cloud Era

15 Feb 2012

Storage at Scale pioneer demonstrates start-up success, big commercial deals, strong partnerships and widespread industry recognition

Storage at scale pioneer Scality's success in 2011 secured its position as a trailblazer for truly scalable, high performing, yet cost effective object based storage. 2011 was a landmark year for the San Francisco-based storage start-up that has invigorated the cloud storage space with the new concept of organic storage. The year's highlights started with a new multimillion dollar round of funding to fuel global expansion, a great deal of industry recognition, and ended with a raft of new customers and partners less than two years after the company's inception.

News Barracuda Networks Integrates Next Generation Firewall and Cloud Web Security

15 Feb 2012

Unique Solution Provides Maximum Protection Both On- and Off-network, Offloads Intensive Security and Reporting Functions to the Cloud

Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of security, networking and data protection solutions, has announced the integration of the Barracuda NG Firewall and Barracuda Web Security Flex. This integrated offering marks the first solution to combine powerful cloud-based Web filtering technology with next-generation firewall capabilities, providing maximum protection both on- and off-network, while offloading intensive security and reporting functions to the cloud.

Videos Arista Networks 7050 Datasheet

15 Feb 2012

Martin Hull, Sr. Systems Engineer at Arista Networks, introduces the new family of Arista switches, the 7050 Series.

News Private Mobile Network Solves Communications Issues at Remote Sites

14 Feb 2012

South West Water deploys private GSM to solve patchy mobile coverage

Private Mobile Networks Ltd, the UK provider of private GSM network technology, today announced a successful deployment for South West Water.

Articles FCS Financial - Case Study

13 Feb 2012

Integrated customer relationship management solution supports 20% annual business growth with limited staff additions

The Company

FCS Financial is part of the nationwide Farm Credit System located in Jefferson City, MO. that provides lending opportunities and financial services to more than 14,000 farmers and farm-related businesses through 29 branch offices.

Blog Fiber-to-the-……

13 Feb 2012

James Donovan at CommScope writes: Over the past years, one infrastructure media technology in particular has become more and more common in catering to the trends in all types of networks, that of optical fiber. When I say networks, I mean it in widest sense to include Wide Area Networks (WAN), Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN), Local Area Networks (LAN), Cellular and Mobile Networks and Broadband Networks.

News e|net Selects Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Solutions to Advance Ireland’s Network Infrastructure

06 Feb 2012

Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet advanced demarcation platforms to support sophisticated QoS and SLAs

Ciena^® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced that e|net, the private company that manages the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) programme on behalf of the Irish Government, has selected Ciena’s 3916 and 3930 Service Delivery Switches to improve its regional network infrastructure. The advanced demarcation platforms’ low-touch provisioning and embedded service benchmarking capabilities enable a simple deployment model and speedy set-up of new customer connections, allowing e|net to easily expand its Carrier Ethernet network and offer its service provider customers sophisticated Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) capabilities.

News Cisco Propels Switching Portfolio Into Next Frontier of Networking Speed and Simplicity

02 Feb 2012

Cisco Leads Switching Market Innovation with 40 GbE Capabilities for Catalyst Switches and 40/100 GbE Capabilities for Nexus Switches; Enhances Network Virtualization with Simplicity and Scale

According to the Cisco Cloud Index, more than 50 percent of computing workloads in data centers will  be cloud-based by 2014, and global cloud traffic will grow more than 12 times by 2015 to 1.6 zettabytes per year —the equivalent of over four days of business-class video for every person on Earth.  Based on these trends, Cisco announced it has updated its switching portfolio with 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) capabilities, the next speed limits for networking.  These new capabilities provide a holistic architectural approach across campus, data center and service provider environments, and give customers a significant advantage while addressing emerging trends like cloud, video, mobility, and the proliferation of 10GbE.

News ShoreTel Acquires Hosted Unified Communications Pioneer M5 Networks

02 Feb 2012

Acquisition Advances ShoreTel’s Cloud Strategy

ShoreTel Inc., the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire M5 Networks (“M5”), a recognized leader in hosted Unified Communications. As a result of the acquisition, ShoreTel will be uniquely positioned to provide customers a choice between on-premise and hosted UC solutions.

News Ipswitch Network Management Division Achieves 31% Increase In UK Year On Year Revenue

31 Jan 2012

Success underpinned by 60% increase in staff and 20% increase in channel partners

Ipswitch Inc.’s Network Management Division, developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management solutions, today announced an increase of 31% in UK year on year revenue. Buoyed by 60% growth in European staff and a 20% increase in European resellers, Ipswitch Network Management Division’s successful expansion reflects the growing demand for its products and services from its booming customer base.

News Record Number of Exhibitors and Visitors for Data Centre World 2012

31 Jan 2012

Over 140 data centre vendors, resellers and equipment suppliers to showcase solutions between 29th February and 1st March 2012

A record number of exhibitors will attend the fifth annual Data Centre World exhibition and conference, taking place at London Olympia between 29th February and 1st March 2012. 

Videos The Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (DECC) - Case Study

24 Jan 2012

The Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (DECC), a one-million square foot, multipurpose event venue/sports facility in Minnesota, turned to Avaya IP Office to meet its mobility, customer service & cost-management needs.

News ShoreTel Reinforces Commitment to Resellers with Program and Systems Enhancements

18 Jan 2012

Latest investments in reseller tools and resources demonstrate ShoreTel’s channel leadership

ShoreTel Inc., the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced Certification Central, a new learning management training system associated with ShoreTel University; an updated reseller dashboard, a critical partner relationship management tool; and a revitalized store for resellers, for quick and easy access to print-on-demand ShoreTel collateral and other demand creation tools – all available internationally. Mirroring the brilliant simplicity of its Champion Partner Program, ShoreTel strives to provide resellers with easy-to-use tools that support a successful business relationship, while delivering some of the best product and service margins in the industry.

News Wick Hill Appointed As Silver Peak Distributor For The UK And Central Europe

17 Jan 2012

Wick Hill expands channel opportunities with data centre class WAN optimisation

Wick Hill today announced that it has been appointed by Silver Peak Systems as a value added distributor (VAD) in the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and will offer the company’s full range of physical and virtual wide area network (WAN) optimisation appliances. This is a strategic partnership for Wick Hill as the company continues its expansion strategy, targeting areas with high-growth potential for value added resellers (VARs).

News Telstra expands global reach with new Frankfurt PoP

16 Jan 2012

Also provides new low latency route between Europe and Asia

Telstra International, a leading global supplier of managed network and hosting services, today announced an extension to its global network connectivity by opening a new Point-of-Presence (PoP) in Frankfurt and provision of a new low latency telecommunications route from Europe to Asia.

News F5 Keeps Android Users Connected and Productive with New Secure Access Solutions

16 Jan 2012

F5 adds industry-leading support for Android’s 4.x OS, enhances SSL VPN capabilities to help IT staff manage secure mobile access to data and services

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that itsBIG-IP^® Edge Client^™ is the industry’s first SSL VPN solution that provides comprehensive security and mobile access for all devices running Android 4.x (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich). F5’s free, downloadable client enhances mobile user productivity by providing accelerated client access to corporate resources via a full SSL VPN connection.

News COSMOS & Miracle Consortia Select SGI Technology to Close in on the Big Bang & Exoplanets

16 Jan 2012

Research Collaboration Led by Professor Stephen Hawking and DiRAC Select Next-Generation SGI® UV Shared Memory System

SGI has announced that COSMOS and Miracle Consortia* have selected SGI as its preferred technology partner for their shared-memory node, as part of the STFC funded DiRAC collaboration. This is a continuation of the national service offered by Stephen Hawking's COSMOS Consortium, based at the University of Cambridge. This announcement enlarges and extends a long-standing relationship between SGI and the COSMOS Consortium, and will allow these interdisciplinary organisations to solve some of the most complex computing challenges of our time and find answers to astoundingly big questions.

News NextiraOne is only Company to achieve Cisco UC Master Partner in Austria

13 Jan 2012

Company reaffirms leading role in Unified Communications with extensive certification success

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has announced that it is the only Austrian Cisco partner to have achieved Master Unified Communications certification.

News Node4 receives esteemed Cisco recognition

12 Jan 2012

Node4 has announced that it has achieved the Advanced Unified Computing Technology Specialisation from Cisco in the UK.

News Telstra International Extends Global Ethernet Private Line reach with comprehensive ‘One-Stop-Shop’ Ethernet service option and half circuit launch

11 Jan 2012

Enables customers to buy or build their own ‘one stop shop’ Ethernet service

Telstra International, a leading global supplier of managed network and hosting services, today extended the global reach of its Ethernet Private Line (EPL) offering with the launch of a ‘One-Stop-Shop’ (OSS) Ethernet service option and the release of its Ethernet half circuits.

News 100 Gigabit Ethernet Industry Milestone Achieved; Brocade Delivers 100TH Blade

11 Jan 2012

Renowned International Research Institute, CERN, Advances Particle Physics Research Using Brocade 100 Gigabit Ethernet Solution

From initial customer shipments of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) in June 2011, Brocade established itself as a leading provider of carrier-grade 100 GbE routing solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide. By November 2011 the Company delivered its 100TH two-port blade to the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, one of the world’s largest centers for scientific studies, as a critical component to accelerate its research..

News Talari Networks Brings Dramatic Savings for Enterprise-Grade Branch Office Connectivity

10 Jan 2012

New Appliance Also Includes Software to Maintain Uptime During Internet, Data Center Outages

Talari Networks, Inc. today announced the addition of the Mercury T510 appliance to its family of Adaptive Private Networking (APN) products for WAN Virtualization, offering enterprise-grade connectivity for small branch offices. The company also announced an accompanying software release, APNware 2.3, which introduces system-wide improvements that simultaneously boost WAN reliability and provide accurate accounting on the availability of underlying networks.

News WAN Virtualization Adds Up for Accounting Firm Whiting & Partners, Increasing Bandwidth and Raising Resiliency for VoIP and VDI

10 Jan 2012

Talari Networks, Inc. today announced Whiting & Partners has deployed Talari's WAN Virtualization appliances to ensure high-availability networks for voice and data applications, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Using Talari’s WAN Virtualization technology, the firm of general practice chartered accountants has increased bandwidth by a factor of five, cut the cost per Mbps in half, and made the network more reliable for their real-time and interactive applications.

News Research Confirms ShoreTel Has Lowest Total Cost of Ownership

10 Jan 2012

Comprehensive industry analyst study shows ShoreTel Unified Communications solution has lowest total cost of ownership in the industry

ShoreTel Inc., the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced the results of an Aberdeen Group study on the total cost of ownership (TCO) of unified communications solutions. The survey of 236 different businesses validates that ShoreTel’s unified communications solution is the easiest to use, deploy and manage when compared to other solutions on the market today.

News UK operator Vaioni taps Ciena for Carrier Ethernet Upgrade

09 Jan 2012

Ciena^® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced that Vaioni, the UK’s largest Ethernet aggregator, is deploying a range of Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet solutions as part of its enhanced Ethernet service offerings to enterprises, carriers and cloud providers across the country. Ciena’s Carrier Ethernet Service Delivery (CESD) portfolio has been rolled out across Vaioni’s UK network infrastructure, allowing the operator to significantly extend the reach of its core network connectivity in its home market, deliver a full suite of next generation Ethernet services, and maximise service availability while reducing the cost and complexity of turning up new services.

Videos Cloud Architectures with HDS and Brocade

06 Jan 2012

Brocade and Hitachi Data Systems Join Forces to Automate and Accelerate Cloud Adoption

This ESG video highlights the need for organizations to create and deploy more open and agile IT architectures in order to better respond to the business. It further describes how Brocade and HDS are working together to enable highly flexible, converged solutions by leveraging their open cloud architectures, Virtual Compute Blocks and Converged Data Center Solutions respectively, and avoid vendor lock in.

News Enhancements to Hitachi Data ingestor help organisations reduce costs and simplify cloud adoption

15 Dec 2011

New content sharing, file restore and NAS migration capabilities increase manageability and flexibility for cloud and distributed IT environments

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today introduced enhancements to Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI), a bottomless, backup-free cloud on-ramp and filer, to help organisations simplify and accelerate cloud adoption. Featuring new content sharing, file restore and NAS migration capabilities, the new version of HDI gives seamlessly scalable, backup-free storage solutions to distributed consumers of IT, such as remote offices and branch offices (ROBO) or cloud storage users. Working in conjunction with Hitachi Content Platform (HCP), a virtualised object store with advanced storage and data management capabilities, HDI is deployed as a minimal-footprint or virtual appliance that sends data from the edge to the core infrastructure to easily and cost-effectively help customers move data to the cloud at their own pace.

Videos Aruba Virtual Intranet Access (VIA) Client Video Data Sheet

15 Dec 2011

The VIA client from Aruba provides secure remote network connectivity for Apple iOS, Mac OS X and Windows mobile devices and laptops. A hybrid IPsec/SSL VPN, VIA selects the best network connection and automatically configures mobile device Wi-Fi settings.

News New Borland StarTeam Release from Micro Focus Unifies ALM Environments

15 Dec 2011

Expanded capabilities deliver increased productivity and cross-tool visibility to all software delivery stakeholders

Micro Focus, the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced the launch of Borland StarTeam 12.0.The new suite of change management tools increases and extends interoperability of application lifecycle management (ALM) tools and asset types across software development teams.  This helps to overcome traditional development barriers such as lack of cross-tool visibility and inefficient collaboration.

Articles Making the call on enterprise IP telephony

08 Dec 2011

Complete visibility of performance is essential for IT operations teams tasked with deploying and managing real-time applications such as IP telephony, VoIP and video.

SevOne’s Pete Cruz examines the challenges faced by enterprises when converging voice, data and video onto a single network infrastructure.

IP telephony encompasses a set of technologies enabling voice, data and video over existing IP-based LANS, WANs and the internet. Using voice over IP (VoIP) as the enabling technology to transport phone calls allows firms to eliminate legacy circuit-switched (TDM) systems and lower equipment costs by converging applications onto a single infrastructure, while browser-based interfaces can simplify system management. Software upgrades are also much easier to implement, as are moves, adds and changes (MACs). 

News Cable&Wireless Worldwide and Silver Springs Networks Provide Telecommunications Network to Support Growth in Onshore Wind Development

05 Dec 2011

Cable&Wireless Worldwide and Silver Spring Networks today announced that they have been selected by UK Power Networks as telecommunications partners for its forthcoming Flexible Plug and Play (FPP) Low Carbon Networks project.  The £9.7million project has been awarded funding under Ofgem’s Low Carbon Network Fund and is set to form part of Ofgem’s ongoing commitment to making Britain’s electricity grid smarter.

News HP Bridges Human Information and Extreme Data to Drive Insight, Foresight, Action

29 Nov 2011

New HP Information Optimization solutions power Instant-On Enterprises

HP today extended its Information Optimization portfolio with new solutions that help Instant-On Enterprisesturn information, intuition and ideas into insights to drive better decision making.

News NextiraOne Improves Communications for Lyon Housing Organisation in France

21 Nov 2011

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has implemented a solution for GRANDLYONHABITAT, the public community office of the City of Lyon for the management of over 24,000 homes, to improve the performance of its communications and provide greater collaboration tools.

News BT and Cisco fire the starting pistol for Collaborative Working with LOCOG ahead of London 2012

21 Nov 2011

BT MeetMe WebEx online meetings chosen to drive collaborative working, reduce operational costs and improve staff productivity for LOCOG in the run up to London 2012

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is using BT MeetMe WebEx conferencing and collaboration software to provide staff with access to virtual meeting rooms to aid planning and preparations ahead of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

News Brocade Selected as the Core for World’s Largest Single Site Deployment of 100 GbE in a Research Institute

14 Nov 2011

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Advances Neuroscience and Imaging Analysis with 100 GbE, Improving Efficiency by 50 Percent

Some high-performance research institutes generate millions of digitised images in the course of a year that require complex algorithms and robust computational horsepower to analyse. Their research demands that the computing environment be ultra-responsive and extremely efficient.  

Videos Is Your Network Real-Time Ready?

14 Nov 2011

Avaya Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (Avaya VENA) allows organizations to more easily optimize business applications and service deployments in and between data centers and campuses.

News Joules Clothing Enables Multi-Channel Communications Strategy with ShoreTel

03 Nov 2011

UK clothing giant boosts customer service with UC deployment and experiences 50 percent cost savings

ShoreTel^® (Nasdaq: SHOR), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced that Joules Clothing, a British based fashion designer and online retailer, has deployed a ShoreTel UC system with ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center to reduce costs, enable a multi-channel communications strategy and enhance customer service.

Videos Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson

03 Nov 2011

Juniper Network's "5 in 5" video series features guests from the technology space answering five viewer-submitted questions in five minutes.

News Juniper Networks to Deliver Business-Ready Secure Mobility Solutions with Samsung

31 Oct 2011

Collaboration to create and market secure mobility and device management solutions for select Samsung mobile devices

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, announced it is expanding its partnership with Samsung to deliver comprehensive mobile security, secure connectivity and device management capabilities for enterprise customers of Samsung high-end smart mobile devices, starting with GALAXY Note, GALAXY SII and GALAXY Tab 10.1. Juniper and Samsung will collaborate to deliver significantly enhanced secure mobility solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to protect mobile devices as well as the network resources and applications they access in today’s mobile enterprise environment.

News F5 Introduces High-Performance Platforms to Help Organizations Optimize Application Delivery and Reduce Costs

24 Oct 2011

F5’s new BIG-IP solutions enable customers to accelerate applications, ensure FIPS compliance, and increase the efficiency of dynamic data centers

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced new BIG-IP^® platform offerings. Adding to F5’s broad range of Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solutions, the BIG-IP 11000 platform is specifically designed for high levels of throughput, making it an ideal solution to support application acceleration to improve user experience, and data center-to-data center replication to enhance disaster recovery efforts and overall business continuity.

News Silver Peak teams up with Commtech for WANop distribution

20 Oct 2011

Commtech Distribution, one of Ireland's leading trade only ICT distributors, today announced that it will distribute the entire portfolio of Silver Peak Systems data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation appliances to resellers across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

News Exinda Accelerates UK Market Traction at IP Expo 2011 with Virtual WAN Optimisation Appliance

20 Oct 2011

New Product Enhances Cloud, Enterprise WAN Optimisation, Supports Mobile Road Warriors

Exinda, a global provider of WAN optimisation solutions incorporating Unified Performance Management, today announced a fully featured new virtual appliance, which delivers each of the key benefits delivered by Unified Performance Management with its hardware-based WAN optimisation solutions in a virtualised software load. Enterprises and service providers can use the Exinda virtual appliance to deliver WAN optimisation services to users and customers without having to use a dedicated hardware appliance.

Videos 2011 IT Capabilities & Needs Survey Results

20 Oct 2011

Protiviti's 2011 IT Capabilities and Needs Survey identifies top areas of concern for CIOs and their teams. This video offers a snippet of some of the notable findings of this survey which include virtualization and cloud computing, social media, security and privacy, regulatory change, and data classification and management are among their highest priorities.

Articles 2011 Information Technology Capabilities and Needs Survey

20 Oct 2011

More than 200 respondents, including CIOs, chief technology officers, chief security officers, and IT vice presidents and directors, participated in the study. Respondents answered more than 100 questions in three general categories: Technical Knowledge, Process Capabilities and Organizational Capabilities.

News For Second Year in a Row, Verizon Global Wholesale Wins MEF’s ‘Best Wholesale Ethernet Service’ Award for EMEA

20 Oct 2011

Annual Award Recognises Company’s Comprehensive Product Suite And Most Robust Wholesale Service in Region

For the second consecutive year, the Metro Ethernet Forum has bestowed Verizon Global Wholesale with the 2011 Best Wholesale Ethernet Service award for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The award recognises excellence and leadership in the development, marketing and delivery of carrier Ethernet services in the EMEA region.

News Cisco Network Innovation Enables the Most Scalable Data Center Fabric on the Planet

20 Oct 2011

Cisco scales data center fabrics to more than 12,000 10GbE server ports – double the market’s next-best and at half the cost; Cisco firewall to raise the bar for virtualized security  

As Internet traffic volumes increase at exponential rates (by 2013 it’s predicted that there will be 56 exabytes (about 12.8 billion online movies) crossing the internet per month) the data centers that house and secure applications and data need to scale while remaining highly secure. Today, Cisco® introduced ground-breaking additions to its data center networking portfolio that address these needs and deliver unmatched architectural flexibility and scale for physical, virtual or cloud computing environments.

News Silver Peak extends virtual WANop technology with HP

18 Oct 2011

Silver Peak VXOA on HP Advanced Services zl Modules simplifies and reduces costs when optimising branch WAN connections

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation, today extended its flexible options for deploying ‘WAN optimisation anywhere’ with the availability of Silver Peak VX virtual WAN optimisation appliances on HP 5400zl and 8200zl switches.  Leveraging HP’s recently announced virtualisation support for the 5400zl and 8200zl switches, Silver Peak integration allows enterprises to easily and cost-effectively deploy WAN optimisation in branch offices to ensure fast access to centralised applications, optimised backup of remote data, and the highest quality voice and video services to distributed employees.

News Ipswitch Network Management Division Survey Highlights Importance of Forensic Log Management Witihn a Wider Compliance Initiative

17 Oct 2011

Regulatory Compliance Issues Paramount to Network Administrators

Ipswitch Inc.’s Network Management Division, developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management solutions, today released the results of a survey of some of its 100,000 customers on how necessary forensic event log management capabilities are to network security initiatives. The survey found that almost two thirds (65.4%) of respondents said that log management is very helpful when it comes to maintaining and managing Event Log and Syslog activity in line with increasingly stringent compliance standards.

Articles Data Centre Business Continuity

17 Oct 2011

How is the choice of data centre, and data centre connections, key to supporting mission-critical applications – and what should you look for when choosing? Bob Griffiths, MD of Next Connex explains.

According to research from the Business Continuity Institute, approximately 20% of companies suffer a major disaster or disruption every five years, including damage caused by natural disasters, fires, IT system failures and power cuts. Of these companies, over three-quarters don’t survive the disaster. Such disruptions cost UK firms almost £4bn each year, and studies show that the average business suffers up to 11 virus attacks on a daily basis.

News Portman Travel Leads the Way with ShoreTel Unified Communications

17 Oct 2011

UK travel management company boosts customer service and implements cost avoidance with ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center

ShoreTel®), the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with fully integrated unified communications (UC), today announced that Portman Travel, one of the UK's largest independent business travel companies, has deployed a ShoreTel UC system along with a ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center in order to create a single, integrated communications infrastructure. The ShoreTel solution allows Portman Travel to deploy cost avoidance strategies, increase productivity through significant time savings, support sustainable growth within the company and enable more dynamic, interactive customer service.

Videos American University - Case Study

13 Oct 2011

American University ensuring growth with Fluid Data storage

News ITV announces second deal with Geo Networks for national dedicated fibre network

06 Oct 2011

Five year deal will see Geo deliver ITV’s national ‘Content Superhighway’

ITV today announced a second contract with Geo Networks Limited (“Geo”), a provider of dedicated fibre networks, to deploy a new national fibre optic network initially incorporating eight key sites in London, Manchester and Leeds.

News NextiraOne appoints Aman Khan to lead Data Centre Business in Europe

06 Oct 2011

Increased Focus on Virtualisation, Fabric Computing and Cloud

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has announced the appointment of Aman Khan to lead its Data Centre Business for the NextiraOne Group.  The announcement highlights the growing importance of the data centre market for NextiraOne and supports its strategy to further develop its international Data Centre business, focusing on Virtualisation, Fabric Computing and Cloud solutions. The company continues to build on significant customer wins and its growing relationships with key technology and ecosystem partners.

Blog Need Help Justifying That Infrastructure Upgrade?

06 Oct 2011

James Donovan writes: I often get asked by customers, partners and fellow employees: ‘How do we justify the expense of an infrastructure to the powers that be who control the purse strings?’

News Cisco Helps Businesses Improve Application Performance for Cloud Services, Virtual Desktops and Video with New WAN Optimization Appliances

06 Oct 2011

Cisco Introduces a Set of WAAS WAN Optimization Appliances to Help Organizations Deliver Business Applications with a High-Quality Experience Across Corporate Networks

With the number of Internet-based applications expected to reach 1 million this decade, Cisco is focusing on helping its customers deliver more Web-based software applications and rich media content across networks at scale and with high quality to any user and device. To achieve this goal, the company today introduced the next generation of its Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) appliances - the Cisco family of WAN (wide area network) optimization solutions.

News Exinda Presents Next Generation WAN Optimisation at IP Expo

05 Oct 2011

Discusses latest WAN Optimisation techniques to assist businesses improve network performance in the age of unified communications

Exinda, a global provider of WAN Optimisation solutions incorporating Unified Performance Management, will educate IP Expo 2011 visitors on the network performance challenges associated with running today’s mission critical business applications and how to resolve them. As video, VoIP and other collaborative applications become must-haves, so businesses need to be able to run them without suffering any network performance issues. At IP Expo, Exinda will demonstrate to visitors how to do this through the latest innovations in WAN Optimisation techniques via two key seminars.

News F5 Study Shows 75 Percent of Organizations See IT-as-a-Service Becoming Commonplace

05 Oct 2011

At least 67 percent of enterprises are already implementing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) models

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the results of the F5 Networks 2011 Journey to ITaaS Study. This survey summarizes enterprises’ attitudes about and progress toward implementing IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS)—a business model in which stakeholders select and self-provision IT services on demand. With the static data center model of the past lacking sufficient agility to support today’s myriad user types, complex applications, and increasing demands on IT, enterprises are showing support for the idea of ITaaS as they move toward a dynamic data center model.

News F5 Networks’ New Professional Services Offering Helps Customers Seamlessly Transition to IPv6

05 Oct 2011

Interop New York 2011 attendees experience F5’s IPv6 capabilities first-hand with BIG-IP solutions deployed in Interop Network Operations Center

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced its new IPv6 Solution Services offering. This Professional Services offering will help organizations address their need to establish a presence on the IPv6 Internet as new IPv6-only devices flood the market and the available supply of IPv4 addresses dwindles. F5 has also announced that its BIG-IP^® solutions are deployed in the Network Operations Center (NOC) at Interop New York, happening October 3‒7 at the Javits Convention Center. These solutions will provide key application and IPv6 connectivity in support of Interop vendors and attendees.

News Hungarian National Information Infrastructure Development (NIIF) Institute Selects SGI to Power Advanced Scientific Research

05 Oct 2011

SGI, a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that the National Information Infrastructure Development (NIIF) Institute headquartered in Budapest, Hungary has purchased a combined SGI® Altix® UV 1000 and SGI® Altix® ICE 8400 supercomputing solution that will enable advanced academic and scientific research in Hungary.

News Siemon Launches Category 6 Patch Cords with Reduced Diameter Cable and Ultra-Slim Boot

04 Oct 2011

Siemon, a leading global manufacturer of IT network cabling and infrastructure systems, today announced the next generation of its popular category 6 UTP MC6 patch cord.  Featuring new reduced-diameter cable and low-profile, ultra-slim strain relief boot, the new MC6 cords meet or exceed all category 6 standards.

News Paessler Launches PRTG v9 with Faster, Easier, More Advanced Network Monitoring Features

04 Oct 2011

Award-winning network monitor upgraded with next generation web interface, IPv6 support and new enterprise console

Paessler AG, the innovative network monitoring solutions specialist, today announced the launch of its new PRTG Network Monitor v9. Version 9 offers a number of powerful new features, including new capabilities aimed at making network monitoringeasier, more efficient and more flexible.

News Micro Focus Announces Revolutionary Approach to IBM Mainframe Application Testing

04 Oct 2011

Micro Focus Test Server innovation provides additional test capacity for mainframe applications

Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today released Micro Focus Test Server^[1]a unique technology that will accelerate testing processes while significantly reducing operating costs. Customers such as the largest listed Portuguese bank, Banco Espirito Santo (BES), are implementing Micro Focus Test Server to enable them to improve software quality by increasing available mainframe test capacity on a Windows platform. Micro Focus Test Server is an IBM z/OS compatible environment where application execution behaves just as it would on the target production mainframe. This makes it possible to perform a broad range of pre-production testing on readily available hardware. Testing capacity can now be easily increased to meet business-critical timeframes without incurring prohibitive costs.

Videos London Olympics - The impact on networks

04 Oct 2011

Mike Ainger, Chief Operating Officer at Geo Networks, talks to us about the impact the Olympics will have on networks.

Videos Oracle OpenWorld 2011: F5 ARX & Oracle ZFS Storage

04 Oct 2011

Peter Silva meets with F5's ARx Solution Engineer Matt Quill for a F5 ARX and Oracle ZFS Storage along with chatting with Oracle's David Wallace.

News Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information Implementing Korea’s First 100G Network with Ciena

04 Oct 2011

Industry-leading coherent 100G technology from Ciena to support delivery of high-bandwidth services and enhance Korean institutions’ access to the global research and education community

Ciena^® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information(KISTI), today announced the deployment of the first 100G network in Korea. KISTI will leverage Ciena’s industry-leading coherent optical technology to expand its network capacity to support enhanced collaboration across the nation on science and technology initiatives for the industrial, academic and corporate sectors.

News Colt and Ciena Partner to Deliver Enterprise Managed Services Across Europe

30 Sep 2011

New services offering features integrated data encryption solutions from Ciena

 Ciena^® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, and Colt, Europe’s leading information delivery platform, today announced a partnership to extend Colt’s portfolio of managed security services. The two companies will enrich the performance, reliability and security of Colt’s managedHigh Speed Services portfolio with sophisticated, integrated wire-speed encryption capabilities from Ciena’s Packet-Optical Transport portfolio, enabling Colt’s enterprise customers to secure and protect their critical business information and intellectual property.

Blog Channeling Mr. Spock – And Sector

30 Sep 2011

Philip Sorrells writes:Oh the wonder of a long weekend!  You may not be a Trekkie but this geek loves to get his Spock on and, over a recent weekend, enjoyed back-to-back to back Star Trek episodes on cable TV.

Articles High & Low: Performance & Latency Matters

28 Sep 2011

How the speed & throughput of next generation networks matters for mission-critical applications, and the influence it has on choice of data centre location

In networking, speed matters. Bandwidth-hungry apps and mission-critical systems demand ever more throughput and capacity. While the trail has been blazed in data-intensive sectors such as stockbroking, commodities trading, and the film and media industries, it’s hard to think of any business area that would not benefit from improved wide-area network performance. 

News Private Mobile Networks supports Macro GSM for connecting between networks

28 Sep 2011

Supporting mobile macro GSM as an interconnect

Private Mobile Networks Ltd, the UK provider of private GSM network technology, today announced support for GSM operator networks as an interconnect between distributed Private Mobile Network sites.  Private Mobile Network traffic can now be distributed between locations over satellite or IP, or break out and pass over a national Macro GSM network.

News IP Infusion Extends Position as the De Facto Standard in Software-based Networking with ZebOS 7.9

27 Sep 2011

Helps OEMs and Service Providers Innovate at Breakneck Speeds; Supports Evolving Data Centre, Mobile Backhaul and Carrier Ethernet Requirements

IP Infusion, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent network software for enhanced Ethernet and IP services, today extended the company’s leadership in software-based networking with the release of ZebOS 7.9 network platform software. The newest technology advancements in ZebOS software help networking OEMs worldwide deliver customised and differentiated solutions to telecom as well as public and private cloud service providers with lower costs and faster time-to-market. Solutions built on IP Infusion’s ZebOS software help customers avoid product commoditisation, improve return on investment and eliminate network bottlenecks.

Videos Arista Networks & Myricom

27 Sep 2011

Jayshree Ullal sits down with Dr. Nan Boden, President and CEO of Myricom.

News Cold War Facility Provides the Security; Brocade Provides the Path to IPv6

27 Sep 2011

Brocade MLX Series Routers deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance and “dual stack” capabilities to help The Bunker make a seamless migration from IPv4 to IPv6

Customers who have hosted their data centre facilities at The Bunker are set to benefit from a major network upgrade to its existing Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) environment. The evolution of The Bunker’s Brocade^® MLX™ Series routers is designed to provide future-proofing for clients during the IPv4 to IPv6 transition, deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance and enable the company to stay ahead of increasingly bandwidth-intense applications, such as high-definition streaming media.

Videos The Bunker Secure Hosting Migrates to IPv6 with Brocade

27 Sep 2011

Ray Welsh of The Bunker talks about how Brocade MLX Series Routers helped the hosting provider make a seamless migration from IPv4 to IPv6 and deliver 10 GbE performance

News Kroll Ontrack develops techniques to recover data from Dell EqualLogic systems

22 Sep 2011

Leading data recovery provider is the first and only company to offer proven recovery capabilities for these systems

Kroll Ontrack, the leading provider of information management, data recovery, and legal products and services, today announced new data recovery capabilities for Dell EqualLogic SAN systems. Using proprietary technology it developed to address Dell EqualLogic system data losses, Kroll Ontrack is now able to recover data from both traditional and virtualised file systems on Dell EqualLogic storage products.

News Nimsoft Announces Comprehensive Monitoring for SAP Environments

22 Sep 2011

Automated Solution Helps Customers Optimise Service Levels across Physical, Virtual and Cloud Infrastructure while Minimising Technology Ownership Costs

Nimsoft today announced Nimsoft Monitor for SAP, an automated solution that enables customers to optimise service levels across physical, virtual and cloud environments while reducing their technology ownership costs.

News F5 Helps Latisys Offer Differentiated Private Cloud and Enhanced Managed Services

22 Sep 2011

Managed services provider relies on F5’s VIPRION Application Delivery Networking solution to ensure its cloud services infrastructure scales rapidly and reliably to meet customer demand

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced thatLatisys is implementing F5^® VIPRION^® Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) as a foundation of its private cloud and managed hosting solutions. Latisys provides IT outsourcing—such as data center colocation services, managed hosting, and cloud solutions—from its secure, high-density, Tier III data centers across the United States. The company is enhancing its high availability enterprise-grade managed services offering, which provides security, backup and recovery, storage, compute resources, and load balancing, to achieve service provider-grade performance levels. Through Latisys cloud services, customers will be able to expand their IT infrastructures dynamically to meet sudden increases in demand for computing resources while benefiting from a highly secure, fully redundant platform.

News Brocade Strengthens Application Delivery Switching Performance and Security for Cloud-Optimised Data Centres

21 Sep 2011

Compact Application Delivery Switch with the Highest Gigabit Ethernet Fibre Density Provides High Scalability, Efficiency and Flexibility

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) expands customer control with the introduction of the Brocade® ServerIron® ADX 1000F compact application delivery switches, which includes the benefits of combined copper and fibre connectivity. This extension to the award-winning Brocade ADX 1000 Series is designed to deliver increased customer choice and flexibility for cloud-focused service providers, financial institutions and governmental agencies while also setting the industry benchmark for application delivery switching performance, scalability and investment protection. The result is up to 50 percent power savings and improved data transmission reliability and security while also dramatically consolidating data centre rack footprint.

Articles GEO Foundation Case Study

19 Sep 2011

Based in Indiana, USA, the Greater Educational Opportunities (GEO) Foundation has worked to improve education since 1998. Specifically, GEO Foundation helped foster support for academy law and now sponsors four academies in the United States that serve more than 1,200 students.

News SIEM from Q1 Labs eases IPv6 migration

19 Sep 2011

Expert recommends that organisations test compatibility across security products and gateways as networks undergo upgrade, or risk breaches

Q1 Labs, the global provider of total security intelligence solutions, has urged organisations to look how Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems as well as IPS and IDS are configured as firms move to IPv6-based networks.

News LSI Announces Support for Continuously Available Systems Clustering on Next-Generation Microsoft Windows Server Platforms

15 Sep 2011

LSI to unveil high-availability direct-attached storage technology on stage at Microsoft BUILD Conference

LSI (NYSE: LSI) today announced it is working with Microsoft on the development of low-cost, Windows-based, high-availability (HA) server clustering solutions for Cloud datacentres and small and medium business (SMB) environments. The solutions will combine Microsoft’s experience in managing clustered server environments through the Windows operating system with LSI’s expertise delivering highly scalable storage and RAID interconnect technology. 

Videos Bill Swanton Previews the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Applications Track

14 Sep 2011

Cloud, software as a service, social, collaboration, mobile, integration and intelligence technologies will have a significant impact on how applications are sourced and managed. The applications track focuses on how these forces will dramatically overhaul the application portfolio and require new skills for application leaders to balance new and legacy investments.

Videos IlliniCloud Video Case Study

12 Sep 2011

Jason Radford, System Administrator for IlliniCloud, a cooperative providing low cost infrastructure for the educational community, gives his view of how not to fear automation. Virtualization and Cloud can translate into high degree of automation and can dramatically increase cost savings.

Videos SpringCM Video Case Study

08 Sep 2011

Schalk Theron, Chief Information Officer for SpringCM, a cloud document management company, provides his view of cloud computing and IT-as-a-Service. ITaaS allows IT to provide a catalog of services for self-provisioning and align the technology with business needs. F5 and VMware are excellent examples of collaboration to provide these strategic points of control.

News RWE Chooses Verizon Managed Network Service Solution to Transform Energy Exchange

07 Sep 2011

RWE IT GmbH, the IT supplier within RWE AG, has joined with Verizon, a global leader in delivering communication, IT security and network solutions, to provide an international network organisation for its customers across the RWE Group. Under a new five year agreement, Verizon will work with RWE IT GmbH to provide a fully managed, end-to-end global communications service, including managed wide area network, local area network, Internet, voice and security solutions.

News Stonesoft and Mycroft Talisen Partner to Provide Secure Access to Restricted Networks

06 Sep 2011

Stonesoft today announced a partnership with Mycroft Talisen, a specialist provider of managed security services, to offer remote access solutions for networks classified as ‘restricted’.

News TeleWare Invests in New Partner Demo Suite at London's Harbour Exchange

06 Sep 2011

Fully equipped demonstration and meeting room opened to help partners close more deals

TeleWare, the leading provider of communications solutions for mobile and distributed workers, has announced that they have opened a new demonstration and meeting room in London’s Telecity Harbour Exchange offices which is fully bookable by any accredited UK partner.

Videos Fabrics 101

05 Sep 2011

The Impact of New IT Technology. As the marketplace moves to Ethernet Fabric, Phil O'Reilly, VP Integrated Marketing, explains what you need to learn.

News French Management School ESSCA entrusts Unified Communications to NextiraOne

01 Sep 2011

NextiraOne to refresh school’s entire unified communications infrastructure

NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, has been chosen by the business school ESSCA in Angers, one of France’s leading higher education colleges, to renew its unified communications infrastructure for its sites at Angers and Boulogne. The architecture is based around a Microsoft Lync server environment and Exchange 2010.

Videos VMworld 2011: Interview with VMware's Sanjay Aiyagari

01 Sep 2011

Peter Silva interviews Sanjay Aiyagari, Senior Partner Architect with VMware. We discuss the growth of VMworld, cloud computing, scalability, and Metro vMotion.

Videos Ethernet Fabric Momentum

31 Aug 2011

Jason Nolet, VP of Data Center and Enterprise Networking for Brocade, talks about the technical and business continuity benefits of deploying ethernet fabrics for cloud architectures in the data center.

News Brocade Advances Ethernet Fabric Innovation to Unleash the Power of Virtualisation

31 Aug 2011

New Brocade VDX Switch Models and Zero-Touch Virtual Machine Discovery, Configuration and Mobility Enhance the Industry’s Only Shipping Ethernet Fabric Portfolio to Increase Business Agility and Simplify Operations

Today at VMworld, Brocade today announced it is delivering more choice, flexibility and automation to customers deploying virtualisation and cloud IT infrastructures. Specifically, the company announced enhancements to the Brocade^® Ethernet fabric portfolio that utilises Brocade VCS™ technology. These enhancements are designed to increase scalability, improve virtual machine (VM) awareness, further simplify management and significantly reduce operational overhead.

News EnterpriseDB Announces Postgres Plus® Cloud Server

26 Aug 2011

First PostgreSQL database-as-a-service Supports Public and Private Clouds including Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus and Bare Metal Deployments with Oracle Compatibility Features

EnterpriseDB, the leading worldwide provider of PostgreSQL and Oracle compatibility products and services, today announced Postgres Plus® Cloud Server, a full-featured, enterprise-class PostgreSQL database-as-a-service (DaaS) for public and private clouds with support for Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus.  In addition, Postgres Plus® Cloud Server can be used outside the cloud as an easy-to-use scale-out database architecture for bare metal deployment in standard data centers.

Videos Three Steps for CIOs to Take Today to Drive the Data Center Forward Into the Future

26 Aug 2011

How do you ensure that your decisions will address your challenges?

Videos Hobsons. Empowering Education Professionals

16 Aug 2011

Hobsons delivers a powerful suite of education-oriented SaaS-based applications to colleges and universities. As such, Hobsons' application delivery infrastructure is mission-critical. The company chose ADN devices from F5 Networks, running the TMOS operating system, BIG-IP version 10, to support its SaaS infrastructure. With this solution, Hobsons is able to reduce its own costs while providing shared services that help its customers do more with less.

News Lebara Mobile becomes first MVNO to own fibre infrastructure with Geo Networks

15 Aug 2011

70km dedicated fibre to link up intra-London data centres

High quality infrastructure will support accelerated growth of Lebara’s global business

Geo Networks Limited (“Geo”), a provider of dedicated  fibre networks, has extended its reach in the mobile space by winning a contract with Lebara Mobile, part of the wider Lebara Group. Lebara has doubled its data usage year-on-year in a fiercely competitive market, recently winning best Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) and Best Customer Service at this year’s Mobile News Awards. And with mobile data traffic set to exceed 14,000 petabytes by 2015[1], it needed a network that would support it through its rapid expansion.

Articles Central & Cecil - Case study

12 Aug 2011

Central & Cecil was founded in 1926 and is committed to providing housing and care for a wide range of people in London, Berkshire, Luton and the Midlands. Its responsibilities include contributing to housing the elderly, the homeless and others with special support needs as well as providing access to personal development, arts and education programmes.

Videos Force10 Ultra-Low Latency Testing for Data Center Clouds

11 Aug 2011

Force10 & Ixia work closely on a number of industry and customer-facing initiatives. Using Ixia's Xcellon-Flex™ family of load modules and the new ImpairNet™module, Force10 was able to fully qualify the latency and throughput performance of S4810 Top of Rack switch, Z9000 the high density 40G switch and the ExaScale chassis switch on both 10G and 40G test ports to fully simulate services coming from East-West and North-South traffic flows.

Videos Bluelock Video Case Study

11 Aug 2011

Bluelock is a managed technology services company and one of the first providers of virtual cloud computing offered through an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model. With Bluelock's IaaS model, clients pay a monthly fee for the IT infrastructure they use, plus a retainer for reserve capacity.

News Siemon Launches Overhead Patching Solution for Data Centres

09 Aug 2011

Global network infrastructure specialist Siemon, has added a new cable-tray mounted rack for overhead patch panels to its line of data centre cable management solutions.  Designed to mount directly to overhead ladder rack or cable tray, Siemon’s cable tray rack delivers 4U of easily installed and accessible 19” rack mount space above cabinets and racks without consuming floor or cabinet space, making it ideal for use within Zone Distribution Areas (ZDAs) or Equipment Distribution Areas (EDAs) in data centres.

News Convergence Group selects Geo Networks’ fibre for its customers

08 Aug 2011

Three-year dark fibre deal will underpin company’s scalable data services

Geo Networks Limited (“Geo”), the leading provider of dedicated fibre networks, has today announced a second deal with Internet Protocol (IP) and network provider, Convergence Group. The Midlands based, service provider serves bandwidth intensive sectors such as technology and broadcast. The deal sees a 36km network carry voice, web and video traffic across London via Geo fibre in the city’s sewer network.

News Advent Optimises Global Access to Data and Applications with Silver Peak

28 Jul 2011

Silver Peak WAN Optimisation Eclipses Industry with Unmatched Scalability, Ease-of-Use, and more than 10x Performance Improvement of Data Transfers over Shared WANs

Providing mission-critical applications to thousands of companies requires high-performance WAN connectivity across distance.  However, the underlying wide area network (WAN) infrastructure spanning the globe is plagued with bandwidth limitations, latency, and packet loss that can impair application use and delivery.  Advent Software Inc., a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, is addressing this by standardising on the Silver Peak Systems data centre class WAN optimisation appliances.

News LSI First to Sample 12Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip, Controller and Expander ICs to Server and External Storage OEMs

25 Jul 2011

Technology demonstrations for OEM customers break the million IOPS performance barrier with a single 8-port RAID-on-Chip IC

LSI Corporation today announced the industry's first sample shipments of 12Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC), controller and expander ICs to server and external storage OEMs, underscoring LSI leadership in the SAS market segment. By providing customers with early samples of 12Gb/s SAS silicon, LSI is delivering a key technology milestone and laying the foundation for the anticipated SCSI Trade Association 12Gb/s SAS Plugfest in mid-2012.  

News LSI Announces Availability of Family of Network Accelerator Cards for Enterprise, Data Centres and Service Providers

22 Jul 2011

Complete platform built on industry-leading silicon with software protocols to provide high performance and deterministic features for networking OEMs

LSI Corporation has announced the availability of a family of network accelerator cards that offload complex, compute-intensive functions, delivering high performance and reducing time to market. The accelerator cards come in a variety of industry form factors and are highly programmable, allowing OEMs to use existing software investments and reducing development costs. 

News Logicalis forms Joint Venture in Indonesia with Metrodata

21 Jul 2011

Logicalis Group, the international IT and Communications solutions integrator, has announced it is establishing a joint venture operation in Indonesia. Heads of terms have been agreed with leading Indonesian ICT Group, P.T. Metrodata Electronics, Tbk based in Jakarta.

News Ciena and Felix Telecom Bring 100 Gigabit Ethernet to Eastern Europe

18 Jul 2011

Romanian National Research and Education Network RoEduNet leverages Ciena’s coherent technology for science and education projects

Ciena^® Corporation, the network specialist, today announced that the Romanian Educational Network (RoEduNet) has chosen Ciena’s high-capacity coherent optical technology for the first live 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network in Eastern Europe. The next-generation infrastructure, deployed together with Ciena’s BizConnect partner Felix Telecom, provides scientists and researchers from Romania the highest network capacity available on the commercial market for science and education projects.

Videos Force10 Networks - Intro/Collective

14 Jul 2011

Jeff Baher Highlights Force10 Networks' Open Cloud Networking at Interop Las Vegas 2011 - Network Automation - Top-of-Rack Solutions - Data Center Core

News Scale Computing Reports 102% Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth in the SME Market for Second Fiscal Quarter 2011 and Exceeds 550 customer installations to Date

14 Jul 2011

Partner growth increases 192% Quarter-Over-Quarter

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, scale-out storage solutions tailored to the virtualization and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today announced record results for its second quarter, ending June 30, 2011 (Q2’11).  Scale Computing’s Q2’11 revenue in the SME market grew102 percent over Q1’10.  In addition, Scale Computing launched a new partner program that resulted in a 192 percent increase in new partners quarter–over–quarter.

News Silver Peak leverages virtualisation to enable ubiquitous WAN optimisation

14 Jul 2011

New Open Architecture revolutionises the delivery, pricing, and packaging of WAN optimisation

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation, today unveiled its Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA), a combination of software and flexible pricing options that enable customers, partners, and service providers to deploy WAN optimisation more conveniently than ever.

Blog Pop Quiz—Wired, Wireless or Both?

01 Jul 2011

Jim Hulsey writes: I took a pop quiz from Cisco. It contained 10 simple questions to help me determine how I should network my office – wired, wireless or both. My quiz result was “both”—wired with a few wireless access points for visitors. While this quiz is helpful and entertaining, those taking the quiz should also be given one more option—the choice of “in-building wireless.”

Articles NetApp helps Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust consolidate its servers and rationalise its infrastructure

30 Jun 2011

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust was formed on 1 April, 2006 after East Kent NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and West Kent NHS and Social Care Trust merged. The trust provides mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, and other specialist services for 1.6 million people across Kent and Medway. It is committed to providing high-quality clinical services, innovation, and partnership working. It is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, covering an area of 1,450 square miles, employing over 3,600 staff, and operating from over 140 buildings across the locality.

News EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS Shatters Performance Test Records

29 Jun 2011

World’s Fastest NAS Platform Delivers High Transactional Access And Linear Scalability for Big Data

EMC Corporation has announced that the Isilon S200 scale-out NAS system is the new industry performance leader based on independent benchmark measurement by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC®). According to the latest SPEC testing data – which measures networked file performance and overall response times – the EMC Isilon S200 scale-out NAS platform achieved record performance results, trumping competitors by more than double their closest results.

News Data Protection and Business Growth Support for HARIBO

27 Jun 2011

HARIBO, one of the UK’s leading confectionery brands has commissioned CVSI to deploy IBM BladeCenter, System Storage technologies and Tivoli software to protect its growing volume of stored data in the UK. 

Videos SGI® ArcFiniti™ Integrated Data Archive Solution

27 Jun 2011

ArcFiniti is the leading archive technology consolidated into an easy-to-deploy, fully integrated solution.

Videos Building a Dynamic Datacenter

23 Jun 2011

Learn how you can build an agile infrastructure and deliver more services with your BIG-IP system

News Data-Shield helps British Airways to validate its critical SAN infrastructure

22 Jun 2011

Independent SAN testing and assessment helps Airline to validate business continuity and improve operational procedures

Data-Shield Ltd, the legacy networking equipment specialist, has successfully completed a SAN Audit and Test project for British Airways helping the airline to certify its business continuity position and improve operational processes across its critical storage infrastructure.

News Academy of Contemporary Music Hits the High Notes with Data Backup Support from Barracuda Networks

21 Jun 2011

Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced that the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) has selected the Barracuda Backup Service to house and store its media, audio and video content, as well as provide disaster recovery functionality for all critical data.

News Brocade Distinguished with Multiple Best of Show Grand Prix Awards at Interop Tokyo 2011

20 Jun 2011

Brocade’s Flagship MLXe Core Router and Brocade VDX Data Center Switches Gain Center Stage

With intense competition and more than 130,000 attendees at Interop Tokyo 2011, Brocade won top distinction for its industry leading Brocade MLXe core router and Brocade VDX Data Center Swtich. The Brocade MLXe Series router was selected from more than 300 highly competitive networking solutions for the Special Prize: Infrastructure Building Products and Grand Prix: ShowNet Product Section. Additionally, the Brocade VDX Ethernet fabric switch also won the Grand Prix: People’s Choice for the show.

Articles Consulting Firm Avoids Significant Infrastructure Costs, Improves Application Availability

20 Jun 2011

With roughly 70 percent of its consultants working from client sites or from home, A.T. Kearney depends heavily on email, instant messaging, VoIP, and other unified communications services. The company needed to ensure that these tools are secure and available to users from any location and on any device.

News Opengear Expands Product Line with 32-Port Next Generation Console Server

17 Jun 2011

Opengear, provider of next generation console server and remote management solutions, announced a new line of 32 port units. The ten new 32 port units give Opengear more than 100 different products available, more than any other console server manufacturer. 

News Nexans’ breakthrough analysis sets benchmark on reach capabilities for 40G/100G Ethernet

16 Jun 2011

Nexans pre-terminated fibre assemblies successfully exceed 600m distance

Nexans’ Data Communications Competence Centre (DCCC) has recently challenged the performance boundaries of Nexans pre-terminated optical fibre assemblies, using a variety of test configurations and platforms. The results demonstrate that Nexans’ OM3 and OM4 cables consistently exceed the IEEE Standard for both 40G and 100G Ethernet by a substantial margin.

Videos AMS-IX talks about Brocade 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology

15 Jun 2011

Henk Steenman, CTO at AMS-IX, discusses how Brocade's 100 GbE technology has helped the Internet Exchange Point (IXP) engineer a peering architecture to ensure that it can stay ahead of Internet growth and cater for the demands of consumers.

News Quantum Acquires Pancetera Software

15 Jun 2011

Combination of Pancetera’s Technology and Quantum DXi^® Disk Backup and Deduplication Appliances Provides More Efficient and Cost-Effective Data Protection

Quantum Corp. has announced that it has acquired Pancetera Software Inc., a privately held company that has significantly reduced the complexity and cost of managing and protecting data in virtual server environments. The $12 million transaction consisted of  $8.4 million in cash and $3.6 million in Quantum common stock (approximately 1.2 million shares), and is expected to be accretive to operating profit by the end of the current fiscal year. The acquisition extends Quantum’s technology leadership by adding key assets for dramatically enhancing data management in virtual environments. Pancetera technology is already compatible with Quantum’s DXi disk backup and deduplication products, and the company plans to further integrate the technology into its longer-term roadmaps for both DXi and its StorNext^® high-performance file sharing and archive offerings.

News Verizon Upgrades Global Communications for Ariston Thermo Group to Help Company Achieve Its Business Goals

14 Jun 2011

Ariston Thermo Group’s ongoing global expansion left it with disparate platforms and technologies that were not aligned with the company’s goals of growth and integration. To resolve that issue Ariston Thermo has chosen an integrated Verizon communications and networking solution that will enable the manufacturing leader to drive more effective collaboration across its extensive operations and implement a range of advanced services.

News TeleWare Launches UK’s First Fully-Converged Business Mobile Network

14 Jun 2011

• Simple SIM change offers single number for mobile and landline
• Powerful business applications inside the network improve flexibility of telephony 
• Integration with on-premise telephony systems allows mobiles to function as an extension 
• TeleWare MVNO provides unique call handling services, including VoIP and Call Recording, while reducing ongoing call charges

TeleWare today announced the launch of TeleWare Mobile, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) that will offer a range of unique, high value services specifically designed for business use.  TeleWare Mobile is the first mobile network to deliver true convergence of fixed and mobile networks with a seamless core for both Fixed and Mobile calls and data.

News DTU accelerates metagenomic research with SGI Altix UV

14 Jun 2011

Solution Expected to Become One of Europe’s Largest Supercomputer Systems

SGI today announced that the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has selected an SGI Altix UV 1000 high performance computing (HPC) system to help researchers mine huge amounts of genomic data from microbes and humans to identify novel genes and proteins that give living organisms their distinct properties.

Articles German TV Broadcaster RTL II Accelerates Content Delivery with Storage Solutions from SGI

08 Jun 2011

RTL II is a German-language private TV company operated by RTL2 Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG which offers a full schedule of programming for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The programmes are delivered via cable networks, DVB-T and satellite. The company, which was founded in 1993 and has about 150 employees, is headquartered in Grünwald near Munich, whilst news programmes are produced in Cologne. The main shareholders in RTL II are the RTL Group, the Bauer Media Group and the Tele München Group; Burda GmbH holds a stake of 1.1 percent.

News AMS-IX and Limelight Networks Field-Test Brocade 100 Gigabit Ethernet Technology to Stay Ahead of Internet Growth

08 Jun 2011

Leading IXP and CDN Companies Significantly Expand Network Capacity to Increase Flexibility and Scalability; Field-Testing Indicates that New Service Will Benefit Peering Landscape

Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), one of the world’s largest Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), and Limelight Networks, the world’s leading content delivery network (CDN) for thousands of entertainment, technology, enterprise and government entities, have field-tested 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology from Brocade with live Internet traffic. The field test with Limelight Networks illustrated how AMS-IX’s 100 GbE-based service will deliver a new dimension to the peering model.

News NextiraOne’s new Unified Building Services Division completes its Comprehensive Data Centre Portfolio

07 Jun 2011

The Communications Experts become The Infrastructure Experts with Turnkey Data Centre Design and Build Solutions

NextiraOne has completed the transformation of its Data Centre business proposition in the UK with the launch of its Unified Building Services division. This brings together all the physical infrastructure aspects needed for the creation of powerful effective Data Centres for NextiraOne’s private and public sector customers in the UK. It represents the final step in NextiraOne’s Data Centre strategy of creating a comprehensive, end-to-end portfolio covering physical infrastructure, network architecture, storage and virtualisation.

News Opengear Teams With Cormant to Increase Security, Visibility, Control and Reporting for Remote Physical Infrastructure

07 Jun 2011

Opengear (www.opengear.com), provider of next generation console server and remote management solutions and Cormant (www.cormant.com), developers of CableSolve a market leading physical layer IT infrastructure management system, today announced integration that gives MSPs, VOIP Service providers and others centralized management, secure access, control and visibility into all physical IT assets behind firewalls.

Videos Infrastructure Management Best Practices

07 Jun 2011

Bob Waldie, CEO of Opengear, discusses new security issues around physical assets such as power and PDU units - can hackers turn off equipment at will? Opengear helps solve these security issues.

News Silver Peak's NX-10K launched to simplify data centre networking for the Cloud & virtualisation

06 Jun 2011

Silver Peak NX-10K simplifies data centre networking and acceleration for cloud computing and virtualisation with multiple 10 Gbps interfaces, small 2U footprint, and support for all applications

Silver Peak Systems today extended its data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation leadership with the release of the new NX-10000 (NX-10K) appliance.  The Silver Peak NX-10K is the industry’s first multi-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) WAN optimisation appliance built for next-generation data centres supporting cloud and virtualisation architectures.  The NX-10K is the latest addition to Silver Peak’s full range of physical and virtual WAN optimisation appliances, all of which provide the most-scalable and cost-effective WAN optimisation for data centre and branch office deployments.  The new Silver Peak NX-10K appliance delivers three-times more capacity and throughput performance than its nearest competitor.

Videos Riverbed Connect Podcast

06 Jun 2011

Bob Gilbert and Naveen Prabhu discuss the advanced QoS capability that was introduced as part of the RiOS 6.5 update to Riverbed's Steelhead appliance family of WAN optimization products

Videos Common Networking Goals

01 Jun 2011

Learn how EMC and Brocade are partnering to achieve common networking goals.

Videos HP Networking and CERN

31 May 2011

Learn how HP's networking solutions are helping CERN innovate new technologies while investigating the universe's greatest mysteries.

News Industry veteran joins Silver Peak to head up EMEA channel partnerships

31 May 2011

Silver Peak, the leader in data centre WAN optimisation, has today announced the appointment of Pierre Langlois as channel director of Europe, Africa and the Middle East (EMEA).

News Force10 Networks Receives 2011 Leadership Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s NGN Magazine

23 May 2011

S4810™ Top-of-Rack Switch Honored for Outstanding Innovation in Network Technology

Force10 Networks, Inc. has announced that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named  the Force10 S-Series™ ultra-low latency S4810™ top-of-rack (ToR) switch as a recipient of the 2011 NGN Leadership Award presented by TMC’s publication, NGN Magazine. 

News Barracuda backup servers now features "private cloud" capabilities for offsite data redundancy

19 May 2011

New Site-to-Site Replication Features Broaden Data Storage Options for Customers Beyond Local and Cloud Backup

Barracuda Networks today launched site-to-site replication capabilities for the Barracuda Backup Service, a market leading solution that allows companies to efficiently back up their data both locally and offsite without the hassle of tapes or other removable media. This enhancement allows customers to deploy a “private cloud” by enabling one Barracuda Backup Server to replicate data to one or more Barracuda Backup Servers housed locally or deployed at other locations for disaster recovery.

News Geo Networks announces partnership with EirGrid to deliver its second Anglo-Irish fibre route

13 May 2011

7 Terabit capacity in conjunction with €600 million EU Interconnector project

Geo Networks (Geo), a provider of high-performance fibre networks, has signed a commercial agreement with Eirgrid, Ireland’s prominent electricity system operator and developer, to provide a second fibre optic subsea cable between the UK and Ireland. This route forms the second half of the diverse fibre connectivity ring between North Wales and Dublin, providing Anglo-Irish businesses with the most secure, reliable and advanced network availability.

News Silver Peak and EMC accelerate private clouds with integrated WAN optimisation and virtual storage

12 May 2011

EMC VPLEX Geo and Silver Peak data centre class WAN optimisation integration can provide up to 20x improvement in WAN capacity while reducing WAN costs by up to 10x

Silver Peak Systems today announced integration of its data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation solutions with the new EMC VPLEX Geo storage federation technology, extending  performance and cost savings for private clouds across geographically distributed data centres.  Working in close collaboration with EMC, the Silver Peak WAN optimisation solution is qualified, optimised, and tightly-integrated with VPLEX Geo to enable the VPLEX features for application mobility, high-availability, and collaboration over lower capacity, less-expensive networks.

News Force10 Uses Intel Expressway Cloud Access 360 for Cloud–Bursting and SaaS Application Deployment

05 May 2011

Intel Corporation will help deliver secure “cloud-in-a-rack” by integrating Intel® Expressway Access 360 for Single Sign On and Account Provisioning into Force10’s Open Automation Framework

Force10 Networks, Inc. announced today that it has entered into an agreement designed to integrate cloud single sign-on (SSO) with Force10 top-of-rack (ToR) switches utilizing cloud access control software from Intel Corporation.

Videos HP - David Scott

04 May 2011

David Scott, senior vice president and general manager, HP Storage, discusses the company's cloud initiatives and how the next-generation FC technologies will optimize private cloud environments.

News Ixia Launches Data Centre Solution for the Enterprise

04 May 2011

Next-Gen Software and Hardware Solutions Offer Data Centre Managers Means to Efficiently Test Enterprise Networks

Ixia today announced simplified and flexible testing solutions that meet the needs of evolving enterprise data centres.  Ixia’s latest IxNetwork^TM v6.00 test application introduces a new, intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), productivity tools and automated test suites.  The next generation software, combined with higher-density and more flexible hardware, overcomes enterprise testing barriers such as steep learning curves, insufficient test reproducibility and poor return on investment (ROI). 

Blog Being Open about Virtualization and Cloud Interoperability

04 May 2011

Byline: Dave Stevens, CTO and Ken Cheng, Vice President of Service Provider Products, Brocade

At Brocade Tech Day last year in New York, we described virtual machines, or VMs, as the “new atomic unit of work” in IT for both service provider and enterprise customers. This concept is based on the fact that VMs allow applications to be encapsulated and detached from the underlying infrastructure and are portable, combinable and manageable as separate entities. For this vision to be fulfilled, we believe that the IT industry needs to agree upon standards and interoperability mechanisms that facilitate the fluid movement of VMs between public and private cloud infrastructures, regardless of the technology or the provider.

Videos Cloudscaling on Arista Networks CloudVision®

03 May 2011

Randy Bias, chief technology officer, Cloudscaling discusses Arista's EOS.

News Juniper Networks Introduces its Universal WAN Solution to Drive the Agility, Performance and Cloud-Connected Requirements of the New Enterprise Network

03 May 2011

New and Enhanced Edge and Branch Routers Complement QFabric’s™ Quantum Leap in Data Center Performance with Pay-As-You-Grow Scalability for the Enterprise

Juniper Networks today introduced its Universal WAN solution, enabling new levels of business agility with a flexible and scalable enterprise and branch routing portfolio optimized to support rapidly growing mobile, video and cloud computing applications. Juniper Networks® Universal WAN complements the quantum leap in data center performance, operating cost and business agility driven by Juniper’s new QFabric architecture with exponential improvements in the WAN, including data center-to-data center connectivity.

Blog Avoiding the rush hour: Application Performance Management is essential to IT Consolidation projects

03 May 2011

Nigel Pink writes: As a result of acquisitions multinational enterprises often have a plethora of different IT systems. Data centre and server consolidation simplifies complex IT infrastructure and reduces IT costs but increases complexity when delivering applications

Videos The Converged Supercore

28 Apr 2011

Juniper Networks defines the New Converged Supercore Architecture that dramatically improves Network Economics for Service and Content Providers

News Force10 unlocks the full potential of the data centre with Open Cloud Networking framework

28 Apr 2011

Maximum choice with uncompromised price/performance underpin new vision for cloud and conventional data centres

Force10 Networks, Inc. has announced its Open Cloud Networking (OCN) framework, a new vision for cloud and conventional data centres that is built on open architectures, open automation and open ecosystems. The OCN framework represents a new way to build, scale and manage data centres, powered by a new family of centralised and distributed core switches, a top of rack (ToR) open cloud switch and automation software that deliver powerful new capabilities for the next generation of data centres.

News Talari Networks Named a "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm

26 Apr 2011

Vendors' Selection Includes Innovation That Makes Enterprise WANs and Access to Cloud-based Services More Secure, Reliable and Efficient

Talari Networks has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the April 5, 2011 report, "Cool Vendors in the Enterprise Communications and Network Services," by Jay Lassman, Steve Blood, Bern Elliot, Mark Fabbi, Geoff Johnson, Robert F. Mason, Neil Rickard and Ted Chamberlin at Gartner, Inc.

News Force10 Networks introduces Open Automation 2.0 as part of Open Cloud Networking initiative

26 Apr 2011

New development community portal and ScriptStore enable open exchange of SmartScripts

Force 10 Networks today announced Open Automation 2.0, a major expansion of its Open Automation Framework – a standards-based approach to network automation that optimises data centre network performance and efficiency and lays the foundation for cloud-based services. Open Automation leverages new “open” elements within the modular Force10 Operating System (FTOS) software that streamline the data centre network fabric’s ability to participate in automated, policy-driven, real-time workload allocation in response to changing application and service demands. Open Automation 2.0 extends these capabilities with the debut of the DevExchange development community and ScriptStoreSM, an open exchange for SmartScripts.

Videos Break out of Cubicle Prison with Cisco's New Borderless Networks Solutions

21 Apr 2011

Today Cisco is introducing new borderless network solutions for customers to help them connect anywhere, with any device, at anytime. Plus, programs for partners help increase revenue.

News Citrix NetScaler SDX brings service delivery networking to the cloud era

21 Apr 2011

Groundbreaking NetScaler SDX platform brings virtualisation “inside the box” to transform service delivery

Citrix Systems has announced NetScaler SDX, a groundbreaking new virtualised networking platform designed from the ground up to serve as the “front door” for virtual data centres and clouds. With the new NetScaler SDX platform, customers can now run numerous virtualised NetScaler instances on a single purpose-built physical appliance with full multi-service, multi-tenant support. This innovative new architecture helps customers move from traditional application delivery to far richer “service delivery” required by the adoption of cloud computing, and growing user demand for new services delivered to a wide range of consumer devices. 

News Juniper Networks Announces New Product Family that Delivers Secure, Unified Network Access and Application Control Solutions

14 Apr 2011

Juniper Networks® MAG Series Junos® Pulse Gateways Converge Secure Mobile, Remote and Local Access for Small Businesses to Large Enterprises

Juniper Networks has announced availability of the Juniper Networks MAG Series Junos Pulse Gateways, built specifically to provide a single point of convergence for managing the secure network connectivity and access challenges of a mobile, always-connected workforce. The MAG Series Junos Pulse Gateways, with the Junos Pulse client, deliver mobile, remote network access with Juniper’s market-leading SSL VPN and local access with Unified Access Control (UAC) technologies all in a modular, purpose-built chassis

News European Businesses Look to the Cloud to Drive Business Agility, Not Just Save Cost

14 Apr 2011

Pan-European research shows that enterprises are putting the cloud at the heart of their IT strategy, with 48 percent seeing it as key to empowering agility and business performance

As organisations strive to compete in today’s economy, with workers demanding instant access to information wherever they are, the cloud is becoming a critical part of modern business strategy. Supporting this trend are the results from a new research project1 from Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) indicating that 48 percent of European businesses are already actively deploying cloud architectures, with more than half of respondents citing business agility as the key driver. Cost-savings, operational or capital, were of secondary concern at 16 and 14 percent, respectively.

Videos The Lowdown on Low Latency

14 Apr 2011

Stephan Rettenberger and Gareth Spence discuss the hot topics in low latency, including the latest regions to develop new routes and some of the key technologies that we can expect to see in 2011

News Geo Networks and Next Connex seal deal to provide diverse fibre connectivity to Europe’s largest Tier 3 data centre, in South Wales

12 Apr 2011

New network set to close latency gap between London to South Wales to under 2 milliseconds

Geo Networks today announced that it has agreed a deal with Next Connex, the specialist data centre VNO, to provide over 780kms of backhaul fibre network from London to Newport, South Wales, via the Midlands and the M4 corridor.

Videos F5 Supports Arab National Bank's Financial Service Infrastructure

08 Apr 2011

ANB (Arab National Bank), one of the top 10 banks in the Gulf region, has integrated F5's BIG-IP® Application Delivery Controllers into its core banking system to improve customer service and achieve greater transaction and investment efficiencies. ANB enhanced core banking system performance and saved three months of development time using BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager

News Force10 Networks’ Top-of-Rack solutions selected by Avid, a leading digital media editing solution provider

06 Apr 2011

S-Series access switches to integrate with Avid ISIS 5000 shared storage system to provide customised, end-to-end solutions for small to mid-size businesses

Force10 Networks, Inc. has announced that Avid, a recognised leader in digital audio and video editing solutions, has selected top-of-rack (ToR) access switches from Force10 Networks to integrate with its Avid ISIS 5000 shared storage system and provide customised end-to-end media editing solutions for small to mid-size production facilities.  The ultra-low latency, port density and dynamic buffering capabilities of selected S-Series ToR access switches will enable Avid to provide a variety of cost-effective, flexible and real-time shared media storage solutions.

News HP Helps Organizations Reduce Risk, Increase Efficiency of Information Management

05 Apr 2011

Study finds 70 percent of organizations lack holistic approach to managing business-critical information

HP today updated its Information Management portfolio to enable organizations to reduce risk, increase efficiency and simplify the way they manage their business information.

Watch Erik Moller discuss this press release here.

Videos HP Software & Solutions Information Management

05 Apr 2011

Erik Moller discusses results of an HP commissioned global information management study, as well as at HP's new information management products and services

Read the related Press Release here.

News Siemon adds intelligent-ready patch panels to MapIT G2 range

04 Apr 2011

Siemon, a global leader in network cabling solutions has launched new  ‘intelligent-ready’ patch panels and fibre enclosures to extend its popular MapIT G2âIntelligent Infrastructure Management (IIM) solution.

News Platform Computing announces support for MapReduce

30 Mar 2011

Company brings history of enterprise-class distributed computing to “big” data analytics with support for Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model

Platform Computing has announced the company is now bringing enterprise-class distributed computing to business analytics applications that process “big” data using the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model. Based on more than 18 years of industry leadership in workload management for high performance computing (HPC) applications, Platform Computing’s analytics solutions are a natural expansion of the company’s distributed computing experience built on the company’s core technologies, Platform LSF and Platform Symphony.

Articles Helping SMEs find the tools to tackle the 'Budget for Growth'

29 Mar 2011

Although the Coalition’s budget announced a cut in corporation tax and reduced some of the red tape surrounding businesses, the limited nature of these changes shows little room for manoeuvre. Small businesses will need to continue looking for tools and innovations to help them survive and grow. This includes making intelligent decisions, enabling efficiency and investing wisely in IT.  One particular problem SMBs face is the data explosion and an economical way to harness, store and secure the increasing volumes of data and the expectation that ‘everything can be stored’.

Videos Most Power Efficient 10Gb Ethernet Switch

29 Mar 2011

Doug Gourlay and Jeff Hirschman discuss the 7050 switch.

Articles Open Network Automation is Critical to the Virtual Data Center

25 Mar 2011

Mr. Kerravala is a distinguished research fellow at The Yankee Group, leads the Research Council and is chartered with the responsibility of providing thought leadership to the research organization. Comprising senior research leaders, the Research Council provides outreach to clients and the broader Yankee Group community, as well as ensures that the company's research agenda addresses the needs of business leaders. Kerravala drives the strategic thinking of the research organization and helps shape the research direction.

Deleted Most Power Efficient 10Gb Ethernet Switch

22 Mar 2011

Doug Gourlay and Jeff Hirschman discuss the 7050 switch.

Videos In conversation with Deb Dutta and Frost & Sullivan on Simplifying the Data Centre

22 Mar 2011

Brocade's data centre strategy and vision; Brocade One vision and VCS/VDX solutions.

Videos Online Gaming Leader Nexon Wins with EMC Avamar and VMware

17 Mar 2011

Multi-million Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) engage gamers in an immersive, multi-sensory experience. For flawless performance, Nexon, the pioneer of interactive gaming software, partners with EMC. Chris Kang, IT Manager at Nexon, describes how Avamar has helped Nexon meet and manage data growth while providing quick and efficient backup and de-duplication for its growing VMware virtualization environment. 

News CommScope Introduces Its Enhanced Shielded Solution to the SYSTIMAX® GigaSPEED® X10D Solution Portfolio

17 Mar 2011

CommScope, Inc. has introduced its enhanced shielded solution to the SYSTIMAX® GigaSPEED® X10D Solution portfolio.

Articles Child’s Play: Why The Data Centre Should Be As Simple As A-B-C

17 Mar 2011

Nearly every large enterprise is struggling to accommodate growing business demands within their existing budgets and infrastructure. The on-going challenge is clear: how to maintain efficiency while data volumes continue to grow at exponential rates – hitting 35 Zettabytes of digital data by 2020¹. With this in mind, enterprises are looking to migrate to virtualised environments to reduce costs, improve quality-of-service (QoS) and make more efficient use of resources. No longer do businesses want to retain racks upon racks of under-utilised servers in a leviathan data centre, consuming huge resources to power/cool, that requires tens of personnel to manage.

Articles Sysmex America - Case Study

16 Mar 2011

Healthcare Company Achieves 99.999 Percent Availability for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 with F5

Sysmex America develops clinical testing devices for the healthcare industry. To ensure business continuity and seamless communication among customers, partners, and employees, Sysmex must keep email systems highly available. 

News New Era, New Brand: CommScope Unveils New Identity

16 Mar 2011

Solutions At Home, At Work and On the Go for Customers around the World

The company that began as a small provider of cabling to the nascent cable TV market in the 1970s has blossomed into a multi-billion dollar, global infrastructure leader with solutions installed in the world’s best wireless, wireline, enterprise and cable television networks.  Beginning today, its new branding will better reflect the energy, capabilities and leadership that CommScope provides every day in serving its vast array of customers across multiple markets.

News Force10 Networks expands carbon credit programme to include its newly offered top-of-rack switches

15 Mar 2011

Customers purchasing S4810 10/40 GbE top-of-rack switches can offset greenhouse gas emissions by receiving carbon credits based on energy consumption for the life of the product

Force10 Networks today announced the expansion of its carbon credit programme to include those customers purchasing selected models of its S-Series 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) top-of-rack (ToR) access switches.  This programme expansion will enable Force10 customers who buy ExaScale virtualised core switch/routers and now the S4810 top-of-rack switch - the industry’s only core-to-edge 40 GbE solution - to receive carbon credits, which offset greenhouse gas emissions associated with the energy consumption of these solutions.  Carbon credits are provided through TerraPass, a leading third-party provider.

Videos The Buzz From CeBIT 2011

14 Mar 2011

Stephan Rettenberger and Gareth Spence explore some of the hot topics at this year's CeBIT and find the industry has a lot to talk about, including Agile Core Express, 100G and network automation

News StorageCraft ShadowProtect 4.1 enhances backup and system migration solution to support leading virtualisation platforms

11 Mar 2011

Free Upgrade adds HeadStart Restore capability for latest versions of VMWare ESX/ESXi

StorageCraft Technology Corporation has announced the launch of new 4.1 versions of its ShadowProtect® family that introduces deep compatibility with VMWare ESX, ESXi and VirtualBox 4.0.2 and 4.0.4 environments.

News Raritan Introduces Industry’s Most Secure and Comprehensive Solution for Managing Remote Server Racks and Branch Offices

10 Mar 2011

Enables IT maintenance tasks to be performed securely from anywhere; Management appliance meets stringent industry and government security standards, including FIPS 140-2 encryption and Smart Card/CAC authentication

Raritan today introduced significant enhancements and new security features to the Dominion^® KSX II integrated appliance targeted at companies wanting a single, easy-to-use solution to manage all the IT equipment residing in remote locations in a very secure and responsive way.

News SGI announces ArcFiniti integrated data archive solution

10 Mar 2011

Leading SGI Archive Technology Consolidated Into an Easy-to-Deploy, Fully Integrated Solution

SGI today announced the introduction of SGI ArcFiniti data archive solution, a fully integrated disk-based solution that targets the exploding problem of unstructured, file-based data sprawl.

News Small business calls for super-fast broadband roll-out in rural areas

10 Mar 2011

Cloud Industry Forum backs calls to get Britain working

Despite the fact that the Government has just announced that it is moving ahead with the second wave of funding for super-fast broadband across the UK, the Cloud Industry Forum has warned that unless Britain increases its regional broadband coverage with high speed services, then the economic recovery will be impeded.

Videos F5 and IBM: Cloud Computing Reference Architecture

09 Mar 2011

Building a dynamic, agile enterprise cloud can be a daunting task. F5 and IBM have created a reference architecture that will accelerate the design and deployment phases and help ensure a successful enterprise cloud architecture.

Videos Increasing Computing Power in the Data Center

08 Mar 2011

Pradeep Sindhu, founder and CTO of Juniper Networks, discusses how with QFabric, the performance of general purpose computers will improve, enabling data centers to scale.

News CommScope Expands SYSTIMAX® 360 Ultra-High Density Fiber Solution to Maximize Space, Connectivity in Data Centers

07 Mar 2011

With installation and maintenance of structured cabling systems in data center environments rising significantly due to growth in storage area network (SAN) applications and the increased need to maximize floor and shelf space, CommScope has expanded its SYSTIMAX® 360 Ultra-high Density (UHD) Fiber Solution to incorporate multiple LC pass-through panels as well as splicing capabilities.

News SmartJog secures, accelerate and ensure the reliability of its worldwide network with Brocade

04 Mar 2011

The leader in global digital media content delivery has adopted a Brocade network solution to enhance file transfer speeds

Brocade has announced that SmartJog, a leading player in digital content delivery over optical fibre and satellite networks, has deployed the Brocade® NetIron® XMR core routers, as part of a major network upgrade to increase network performance and simplify management.

News Cloud Storage Systems trend setter Scality secures $7 million in Series B round funding

02 Mar 2011

CEO Jerome Lecat unveils strategy to embrace the full potential of the Cloud

Cloud storage system pioneer Scality has announced a successful Series B round of funding led by IdInvest Partners (formerly AGF Private Equity) to secure an additional US $7 million. Scality will complement its San Francisco headquarters with an East Coast sales and services office in New York. Furthermore, Scality continues enhancing its unique distributed object-based storage platform, adding full multi-tenancy for Service Providers who want to offer Virtual Private Clouds, and new tiering algorithm for the Private clouds environments.

Videos CNBC Clip: Kevin Johnson Discusses QFabric

01 Mar 2011

CNBC News clip interviews Juniper CEO, Kevin Johnson, who discusses the introduction of QFabric Data Center technology.

News Huawei Symantec partners with Force10 to enhance world-class networked storage solutions across vertical markets

28 Feb 2011

Huawei Symantec Technologies Co., Ltd. has announced a strategic partnership with Force10 Networks.  Together, Huawei Symantec and Force10 Networks will aim to deliver solutions that will increase reliability and decrease costs for customers.  The partnership will combine Huawei Symantec’s expertise in storage hardware and software with Force10 Networks’ best-in-class Ethernet switches to create high performance solutions aimed at strategic vertical markets.

News Juniper Networks introduces QFabric: The foundation of data centres for the next decade

25 Feb 2011

New Paradigm in Data Center Fabric Provides Breakthrough Scale, Speed, Savings and Simplicity to Power the Cloud Computing Era

Juniper Networkshas unveiled QFabric, the world’s first true data center fabric.  An outcome of “Project Stratus,” Juniper’s multiyear data center network research and development initiative, QFabric delivers quantum leap improvements in data center performance, operating cost and business agility, from the enterprise to the large scale cloud provider. Engineered as a simplified, highly scalable data center network solution, QFabric enables a superior approach to building and securing virtualized data centers that eliminates the tradeoff between quality of experience and economics that plagues today’s legacy networks. 

Videos Inflection Point In the Data Center

24 Feb 2011

Pradeep Sindhu, founder and CTO of Juniper Networks, discusses the inflection points in the data center, and the potential of QFabric.

News Dundee City Council Boosts Availability of On-line Citizen Services with IBM

23 Feb 2011

New mainframe server and storage solution helps deliver 50% more workload with no increase in IT budget

Dundee City Council, working with IBM has upgraded its IBM mainframe server and storage systems in order to deliver greater value to its citizens whilst also meeting reduced cost targets. They have strengthened a cost effective IT architecture which supports key systems such as social services and the Council’s Web portalwww.dundeecity.gov.uk, and has improved the performance it delivers by 50% on the previous infrastructure. The IT team can now respond more quickly to end user needs and new disaster recovery capabilities allow for all systems to be restored at a back up site within 20 minutes of an incident. 

News Connectria selects Scality to launch a public cloud storage service

22 Feb 2011

Scality’s first ‘Storage as a Service’ customer in North America

Scality today announced that Connectria - one of the longest-standing, most experienced, enterprise-class hosting businesses in North America – has selected Scality RING as the core technology of its new Storage as a Service offering.

Videos NextiraOne Unifies Communications for Ricoh Users Across Europe

21 Feb 2011

A video interview of Steven Skakel regarding the associated press release earlier today.

News NextiraOne Unifies Communications for Ricoh Users Across Europe

21 Feb 2011

New communications system to link 18 countries to improve productivity and accelerate Ricoh’s Green agenda

NextiraOne has reached an agreement with Ricoh Europe, a specialist in office solutions, managed document services and production printing, to deliver Unified Communications in up to 18 countries. The new solution will create a collaborative working environment that will help Ricoh to increase employee productivity, provide enhanced customer services and underpin the company’s environmental vision which is to reduce its carbon impacts by 88% by 2050. View the associated video interview here.

Videos RSA2011 - Interview with Jeremiah Grossman

18 Feb 2011

Peter Silva chats with security expert Jeremiah Grossman, Founder & CTO of WhiteHat Security. The interesting discussion touches on WASC, XSS attacks, OWASP and a few other security topics. Fun and informative.

Videos IBM XIV: Reinventing Your Storage Reality

18 Feb 2011

Attractive 5 min. modular flash demo takes you quickly through the "what, why, and how" of IBM XIV Storage and its many benefits

Videos University of Leeds - Case Study

16 Feb 2011

HP TippingPoint security helps the University of Leeds protect and secure its network, dramatically reducing the number of incidents, freeing up bandwidth and improving network visibility.

Videos Ken Duda on ZTP

16 Feb 2011

Kenneth Duda, Vice President of Software Engineering at Arista Networks, discusses Zero Touch Provisioning

News Raritan Introduces expreZo KVM Switch to Help Small- and Medium-Sized Organizations Cost Effectively Manage IT Equipment

16 Feb 2011

expreZo provides powerful boost to server room manageability  

Raritan today introduced expreZo, a compact, easy-to-use KVM switch designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses simplify server management by providing access and control of multiple servers from a single console.

News IBM Introduces New Systems to Bring More Efficiency to Data Centers Run Amok

15 Feb 2011

Continues Ongoing Investments in Innovative Workload-Optimized Systems 

IBM today announced workload-optimized systems to help companies manage a range of more demanding workloads that are placing new stresses on already over-taxed data centers.

News F5 Networks Wins Global Technology Innovator Award at VMware Partner Exchange 2011

14 Feb 2011

Partners from around the world take home top honors for delivering VMware virtualization and cloud solutions to companies of all sizes

F5 Networks has announced that it has been recognized by VMware as a winner of a Global VMware Partner Network Award in the Technology Innovator Partner of the Year category. The award was presented at VMware Partner Exchange 2011, VMware’s annual partner event, this week in Orlando.

Videos Brocade Wins Pinnacle Grand Prize at AFP Conference

11 Feb 2011

Jean Furter, Vice President and Treasurer at Brocade, discusses how Brocade become the Pinnacle Grand Prize Winner at this year's AFP Conference.

Videos IT Transformation and the Business Value It Can Create

11 Feb 2011

Kim Stevenson, VP and General Manager, IT Global Operations and Services at Intel Corporation, shares her thoughts on the importance of IT transformation and the business value it can create.

Articles Storage predictions for 2011

10 Feb 2011

Company storage solutions are a hot topic of discussion for the majority of SME and enterprise organisations. Industry analysts, Forrester report that storage capacity requirements are growing 20% to 40% each year, influenced by escalating regulations and recordkeeping requirements. It seems that 2011 will be no different as an increasing number of companies begin to consider their options, their key concerns gravitate towards the varying importance and challenges that virtualisation, data deduplication and cloud computing will propose. With this in mind, we have explored the key topics and what affect they will have on both markets. 

Videos Laureate Institute for Brain Research Depends on Brocade

03 Feb 2011

The Laureate Institute for Brain Research, a multi-disciplinary organization that correlates clinical content, imaging and genetic data of the human brain, has chosen Brocade® solutions to power its new 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) edge-to-core healthcare networks and high-performance computing (HPC) environment. The decision was based on overall network performance, security and quality of service, as well as savings in capital and operational costs.

News Force10 to power Winter Universiade sports competition's network infrastructure in Turkey

02 Feb 2011

Ethernet switches to help power network infrastructure underpinning the 25th Winter Universiade in Turkey

Force10 Networks, Inc. has announced that its C-Series resilient chassis-based switch and its S-Series top-of-rack (ToR) access switch have been selected for deployment at the 25th Winter Universiade Games in Erzurum, Turkey.  The Winter Universiade runs its Olympic-style sports competition from January 27–February 6, 2011.

News Xiotech introduces hybrid storage to bridge capacity & performance

01 Feb 2011

HDD/SSD Hybrid and Tiering Innovations Enable Continuous Adaptive Data Placement Across Storage Media

Xiotech Corporation today announced the newest member of its groundbreaking ISE technology family, Hybrid ISE.  Hybrid ISE combines both hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state disks (SSD) into a hybrid storage pool that delivers consistent high-performance in the face of random and multi-tenant workloads, thanks to Continuous Adaptive Data Placement.

Articles Converging Storage and Data Networks in the Data Center

31 Jan 2011

In typical large data centers, IT managers deploy different types of networks for data and storage networks. Today’s data networks are mostly based on 1GbE, with 10GbE adoption expected to exponentially increase in 2011 and 40GbE/100GbE coming soon after. Enterprise data centers primarily use fiber channel for storage interconnects due to its reliability, performance and lossless operation.

Videos Data Centre World 2011

28 Jan 2011

This year Data Centre World, the UK’s largest and fastest growing exhibition and conference for data centre managers, professionals, distributors and channel partners will deliver more than ever before with more sessions, more theatres and more exhibitors.

Over the 2 days of the event you will be able to attend 48 sessions and gain knowledge and insights from some of the industry’s key players.

Register here for FREE!

News F5 Accelerates VMware View Deployments with BIG-IP Access Policy Manager on a Virtual Platform

28 Jan 2011

F5’s Access Policy Manager on BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition offers increased flexibility, improved user experience, and lower deployment costs for VMware View

F5 Networks, Inc. has announced a cost effective, scalable solution that streamlines and accelerates VMware View™ virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. F5 is delivering enhanced support for VMware View by making the F5^® BIG-IP^® Access Policy Manager™ (APM™) module licensable on the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM^®) Virtual Edition (VE) product. APM for LTM VE, a high performance access and security solution, offers organizations an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) module for virtual Application Delivery Controllers. APM for LTM VE can be deployed on existing hardware alongside virtual servers that host VMware View desktops, helping organizations control their infrastructure costs.

Videos Execute a Scalable Environment with HP's Converged Infrastructure

27 Jan 2011

Vision Critical, an online market research software company, uses HP technology to create a converged infrastructure with servers, storage, networking and virtualization.

Articles A Report On The Force10 Network’s S-Series S4810

27 Jan 2011

Open Industry Network Performance & Power Test for Private/Public Data Center Cloud Computing Ethernet Fabrics Report: Evaluating 10 GbE Switches

To assist IT business leaders with the design and procurement of their private or public data center cloud fabric, the Lippis Report and Ixia have conducted an open industry evaluation of 10GbE data center switches. In this report, IT architects are provided the first comparative 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch (10GbE) performance information to assist them in purchase decisions and product differentiation

News Force10's 10GbE switch wins industry lowest latency score in independent Lippis/Ixia test

27 Jan 2011

Lippis/Ixia testing concludes Force10’s access switch delivers up to 70 percent lower latency than competitors’ products in data centre network tests

Force10 Networks today announced that its’ S-Series S4810 top-of-rack (ToR) access switch demonstrated as much as 5 percent to 70 percent lower latency than comparable switches in a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) configuration based on a network performance and power test.  The test was conducted by independent analyst and publisher Nick Lippis of The Lippis Report and Ixia, a leader in converged IP network test solutions.

News StorageCraft ShadowProtect Named Finalist for Storage Product of the Year

26 Jan 2011

StorageCraft Technology Corporation today announced StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® is a finalist for the Storage magazine / SearchStorage.com 2010 Products of the Year competition.

Videos BIG-IP APM & Citrix XenApp

25 Jan 2011

Watch how F5 customers can now simply use BIG-IP APM to consolidate access control in a central location, keeping infrastructure administration concerns to a minimum. With BIG-IP solutions, customers enjoy the flexibility and scalability needed to extend Citrix applications to both local and remote users without changing local XenApp deployments or requiring STA to provide secure remote access to applications.

Articles British American Tobacco

24 Jan 2011

British American Tobacco (www.bat.com) is the world’s second largest tobacco group, with 300 different brands sold in more than 180 markets. The company was founded over 100 years ago, but its use of IT is right up to date.

News Kodak partners with Data-Shield to add specialist legacy networking expertise to its service portfolio in Europe

24 Jan 2011

Support for legacy SAN equipment means companies can ‘sweat assets’ further, extend equipment life and avoid unnecessary CAPEX  

Kodak today announced that it is partnering with Data-Shield to add specialist legacy networking expertise and support skills to its service portfolio in Europe.  The agreement is complementary and offers new business generation opportunities for both companies.

Videos RedHat / Dell Partnership

19 Jan 2011

Dell's Tui Leauanae talks about the value of Red Hat and Dell's partnership.

News F5 Announces Two BIG-IP Apps Now Available at the App Store

18 Jan 2011

Free F5 apps deliver secure and optimized corporate network access for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

F5 has announced that its BIG-IP^® Edge Client^™App and BIG-IP Edge Portal^™ App are now available at the App Store. These apps provide iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users with convenient, secure, and accelerated access to corporate materials and ensure IT teams can confidently support both corporate and personal devices.

Videos Customer Video: De Novo Software

18 Jan 2011

De Novo Software has been developing flow cytometer data analysis solutions since 1998. Things began quite innocently, when the President and founder, David Novo, while doing research using flow cytometry, was looking for flow analysis software to use for his own analysis. There wasn’t a product that met his needs at that time. Being the resourceful person that he is, he set out to create his own. When he had completed his data analysis program, other people in his lab liked what they saw, and said that they would use his product if he would add a few new features. This is how FCS Express Version 1 was created.

News CommScope Names New Leader for Wireless Sales in Europe

17 Jan 2011

CommScope has named Phil Sorsky as vice president of Wireless Sales for Europe, effective immediately.

Videos Non-Stop Campus Networking

14 Jan 2011

Jared Valentine, Senior Systems Engineer at Brocade, talks about Campus Networking.

Videos Choosing a deduplication strategy: HP Deduplication Solutions

07 Jan 2011

Explosive data growth is making data deduplication one of the hottest topics around. HP offers a variety of deduplication solutions which suit a range of performance and cost requirements.

Articles Financial Services – The VIPs of Data Centre Networking

07 Jan 2011

Communication and data are the backbone of the global capital markets industry. In today’s Matrix world, financial services transactions happen not between people, but between servers. The extent of these communications enacted virtually - at the network edge - account for more than 99% of all financial services’ exchanges and correspondence. Ensuring that data arrives with minimal, deterministic and “fair” latency, therefore, is vital. Financial institutions, however, are increasingly faced with the challenge of deploying a network which champions “zero latency” and high throughput at the lowest possible total cost of ownership (TCO). 

News CommScope and Cisco Prove 40 Gb/s Ecosystem Ready for Data Center Deployment at Supercomputing 2010

10 Dec 2010

CommScope’s SYSTIMAX LazrSPEED fiber solutions and Cisco’s Catalyst 6500 Series Switch demonstrate interoperability for 10 and 40 Gb/s Ethernet technology

As member organizations participating in the Ethernet Alliance booth, CommScope, Inc. and Cisco Systems, Inc. recently showcased the industry’s first-ever public demonstration of interoperability between 10, 40 and 100 gigabits per second (Gb/s) higher speed Ethernet (HSE) sub-systems at last month’s Supercomputing 2010 in New Orleans, LA. 

News Oracle delivers refresh of SPARC Enterprise Server product line

03 Dec 2010

Demonstrating its commitment to the SPARC platform, Oracle has expanded the SPARC platform by announcing a SPARC Solaris-based Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud T3-1B engineered system and a complete refresh of the SPARC server product line.

News NextiraOne Expands Cisco Data Centre Capabilities Across Europe

02 Dec 2010

Cisco solutions and NextiraOne’s proven international service expertise create powerful data centre offering

NextiraOne today announced an expansion of its relationship with Cisco to accelerate the adoption of virtualised data centre solutions in Europe. Together, Cisco and NextiraOne will focus on delivering advanced communications applications, including Cisco Unified Communications and Cisco Contact Centre hosted in virtualised data centre environments, which bring real value to customers.

Articles Data Center Transformation

29 Nov 2010

Data centers today are undergoing a dramatic shift in terms of the design objectives, technology options and configurations, and functional requirements. The combination of increasing service and availability requirements, continued data growth, and capacity constraints is placing substantial pressure on organizations to adopt new approaches to accommodate current and future business needs.

News Jewelry maker Stuller readies for growth with Converged Infrastructure from HP

25 Nov 2010

Stuller Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of jewelry in North America, has implemented an HP Converged Infrastructure to maximize availability of critical applications for sales, manufacturing and distribution processes, enabling the company to better respond to customer demand. 

News Meeting aggressive growth requirements and accelerating time to market

25 Nov 2010

NBN Co, the company set up by the Federal Government to design, build and operate Australia's wholesale-only, high-speed broadband network, has selected Cisco to lead the implementation of its data centre infrastructure.  The solution will be deployed by Cisco and will be built upon Vblock technology from the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a collaboration of Cisco, EMC and VMware, for its next generation data centre.

News Yunnan Copper picks Juniper for data center upgrade

25 Nov 2010

Yunnan Copper Industry (Group) Co Ltd has migrated data center network to switches, routers and security devices running the Junos® operating system. Deployment of Juniper Networks® EX4200 Ethernet Switches, SRX3600 Service Gateways and M10i Multiservice Edge Routers enables Yunnan Copper to scale its data center operations and provide improved services to its branch offices and subsidiaries.

Videos University of California Irvine

23 Nov 2010

University of California Irvine gets 45% more research done with Dell and Intel HPC cluster

Videos Brocade Reports Record-setting Q4 FY10 Earnings

23 Nov 2010

Brocade announced its Q4 FY10 financial results, an all-time record for the company in terms of revenue, representing an increase of over nine percent quarter-over-quarter. Brocade attributed the record performance to a number of factors including an all-time company high in revenue for its Ethernet business which is composed of products and services.

News StarBev taps IBM

17 Nov 2010

StarBev, one of Central Europe's leading breweries, has awarded IBM a five-year, multi-million euro information Technology (IT) services contract.  

News Fujitsu upgrades Broadcast Management System for Shizuoka Telecasting

17 Nov 2010

Shizuoka Telecasting has upgraded its broadcast management system, which handles all television programming and advertising content, as well as broadcast scheduling, using Fujitsu's cutting-edge platform products. The new system delivers both the high reliability and quality essential in mission-critical systems, and includes early-warning indicators for operational problems, enhancing the system's ability to offer 24x7 stability.

News Juniper Networks introduces the next-generation core router for the new network

17 Nov 2010

Juniper Networks has introduced its next-generation and the industry's fastest core routing platform that delivers breakthrough levels of performance with the new network economics necessary to support service provider business models into the next decade. Juniper Networks® T4000 Core Router, powered by the Junos® operating system, provides the scalability and flexibility required to meet rapidly expanding bandwidth requirements, while extending the unprecedented investment protection of the T Series platform, the most widely deployed core routing platform in the world.

News Boston Limited announces the launch of their next-generation SuperFlex Blade™

16 Nov 2010

Boston Limited, now in its 18th year as a distribution partner for Silicon Valley-based Super Micro Computer, Inc. today has formally announced the launch of their next generation of blade server solutions, the groundbreaking new Boston SuperFlex Blade™

News Boston Limited Launch their latest SmartCluster M Series based on Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

15 Nov 2010

Boston Limited, now in its 18th year as a distribution partner for silicon valley based Super Micro Computer, Inc, today has formally announced the launch of their latest generation of Microsoft HPC Server 2008 R2-based SmartCluster M Series portable blade solutions.

Videos Brocade & EMC

11 Nov 2010

Pat Gelsinger, President and COO, Information & Products at EMC talks about the advantages of adopting Brocades new Strategy One.

News Millennium Stadium and Cisco to transform the fan experience with Europe's first StadiumVision deployment

09 Nov 2010

Cardiff-based stadium is first in Europe to deploy Cisco StadiumVision to deliver new experiences in sports and entertainment.

Videos KVM vs Embedded

05 Nov 2010

This video examines the claims used by Embedded Server Processor manufacturers.

Videos Joel Reich - NetApp

05 Nov 2010

Joel Reich, vice president and general manager of NetApp's SAN/iSAN business unit, talks convergence and more.

News Dutch IT Service Provider deploys Cisco's Unified Computing system

04 Nov 2010

Previder (formerly Introweb BV), a provider of virtual services to the IT specialist, software vendor and Internet service provider (ISP) sectors, has deployed the Cisco Unified Computing System in its data centers. By adopting the Cisco technology, Previder can now offer its partners new and competitive IT solutions such as Web hosting, streaming media servers, DNS and mail servers, faster than ever before while reducing its physical server count by 94 per cent (from 30 racks down to just 2).

Videos IDC Richard Villars on Why Converged IT is Essential for Private Cloud

29 Oct 2010

Watch this short video with Richard Villars, IDC Vice President, Storage Systems & Executive Strategies, reviewing the importance of converged IT to private cloud deployment. Rick outlines how unified and converged infrastructure boosts the effective use of IT assets and makes it easier for organizations to react quickly to major changes as executives are moving to undertake an "operational" transformation of IT.

News Brocade and Partner Ecosystem To Take London by Storm

29 Oct 2010

Dell, EMC, HP, Fujitsu and IBM join Brocade’s CMO and VP product marketing in discussing how to embrace the virtual data centre 

Brocade has announced more information on the Brocade Conference, which will take place on 1-2 December at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington, London.  Join over 1,500 other delegates across EMEA to hear Brocade outline its vision for the virtualised data centre and innovations that will transform the networking landscape.

News Oracle invests in Mellanox

28 Oct 2010

Oracle has made a strategic investment in Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage systems, to further align product vision and maximize partnership efforts.

Videos My introduction to Converged Infrastructure

28 Oct 2010

Learning about HP's strategy around Converged Infrastructure

Videos Iron Mountain's New Enterprise Discovery Suite

26 Oct 2010

Join Iron Mountain experts as they discuss how automating and integrating governance and discovery processes can transform an organization.

News Force10 announces support for Oracle virtualisation solutions based on Open Automation Framework

25 Oct 2010

Oracle-supported software illustrates continued delivery of solutions based on Force10’s Open Automation Framework

Force10 Networks today announced plans to build network automation solutions that support Oracle VM server for x86 virtualisation software and Oracle Linux.  Force10 will help ensure interoperability and complementary virtualisation of network resources as they develop virtualisation solutions based on their Open Automation Framework while utilising the functionality of Oracle VM and Oracle Linux.

News Gartner identifies seven major CEO concerns CIOs should address

22 Oct 2010

With the increased reliance on IT from business leaders, it’s important for CIOs to understand the concerns of CEOs and the implications they may have on IT, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts have outlined the seven major concerns from CEOs that CIOs should address.

Videos Arista Networks at IP Expo

22 Oct 2010

Andy Bechtolsheim, Chairman & Chief Development Officer at Arista Networks, talks to us from IP Expo 2010 in London.

News Brocade Provides First Integrated Converged Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter

22 Oct 2010

IBM BladeCenter Customers Benefit from Unified Switch and Adapter for End-to-End SAN/LAN Connectivity

Brocade today announced that it will be offering the first fully converged embedded 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch module and Converged Network Adapter (CNA) designed specifically for IBM BladeCenter server environments. The new converged switch module and CNA provide IBM BladeCenter customers with increased bandwidth through higher-density 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and 10 GbE port count, investment protection of their existing servers, and reduced hardware costs, along with unmatched flexibility and the scalability to grow.

News Buckeye Telesystem relies On Force10 Networks

21 Oct 2010

Telecommunications provider selects ExaScale E-Series® core switch/router to ensure the scalable delivery of wireless backhaul and next-generation data services.

Blog Event: The Content Crisis- Driving Down Customer Acquisition Costs

21 Oct 2010

Justin Pirie writes: It’s been a little while since I’ve posted on this blog- but I felt it was time to give an events update as there is some really good stuff happening and readers don’t seem to be getting the best of me these days…

Videos Brent Akeson, national credit manager, Adidas, Canada

21 Oct 2010

Brent Akeson, national credit manager, adidas Canada, speaks to SunGard about the need for Transparency, Efficiency and Networks at Toronto City Day 2010.

News New Points of Presence in Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia

20 Oct 2010

Global Crossing has expanded its premier IP-based global network to datacenter facilities in Sofia, Bulgaria; Bucharest, Romania; and Bratislava, Slovakia.  The expansion will enable each data center’s tenants to easily access Global Crossing's network services to support their IP and data networking requirements.

News Training program for building the data center of the future

20 Oct 2010

HP has introduced what is believed to be the first Converged Infrastructure training and certification program to span the entire enterprise landscape -- from networking, storage, servers and software to printing and personal computing.

Articles Force10 Networks Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure

19 Oct 2010

The data center has been, and continues to be, one of the key resources of innovation helping businesses become more agile and efficient while reducing total cost of ownership(TCO) — as well as being the focal point for green IT initiatives.

Videos Force10 Networks at Oracle OpenWorld 2010

19 Oct 2010

Force10 Networks at Oracle OpenWorld 2010. 
Paul Nathan describes Force10's Open Automation Framework

News Fujitsu seals server and storage deal with China Mobile

15 Oct 2010

China Mobile Communications Corporation, the country's largest mobile phone carrier with 550 million subscribers, has purchased over 500 units of Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise UNIX servers and ETERNUS disk storage systems, worth up to US$50 million. This is the largest-ever platform products-related contract for Fujitsu in China.

Articles Oracle’s Optimized Solution for Oracle Database — A Business White Paper

14 Oct 2010

Virtually all IT organizations in both the private and the public sectors use a database system at the core of their operations. These databases are integral to day-to-day operations. If they are not available around the clock it will have a significant detrimental effect on business and in some cases the safety of employees.

News Al-Nahdi Medical Company ‘Switches’ to Brocade’s High-Performance Network Infrastructure to Support Aggressive Expansion Plan

12 Oct 2010

Leading Saudi Arabia Based Pharmacy Chain Seeks to Drive Business Efficiency and Application Performance.

News Cisco and Slumberland Inc. to Showcase Use of Cisco Data Center Solutions for Retail Industry

12 Oct 2010

Live IPTV Broadcast to Highlight Slumberland Inc.'s Deployment of Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco MDS Storage Director and Microsoft Virtualization.

News Force10 Networks Broadens Reseller Agreement With IBM

12 Oct 2010

S-Series™ S60 top-of-rack Gigabit Ethernet access switch now certified on IBM iDataPlex solutions

Force10 Networks today announced that its S-Series™ S60 access switch has been certified to interoperate with IBM's iDataPlex servers and clusters. By certifying the S60 top-of-rack (ToR) GbE switch for integration with iDataPlex technology, IT managers can now leverage Force10’s open network automation functionality to gain greater data center efficiency and agility. IBM plans to provide support for the S60 and the Force10 ExaScale™ virtualized core switch/routers.

Videos Brocade Converged Offerings for IBM BladeCenter

12 Oct 2010

Alex Yost, Vice President and Business Line Executive for IBM System x and BladeCenter, and John Oldham, Brocade Global Sales Executive, discuss the Brocade 8470 Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter and Brocade 1007 Converged Network Adapter (CNA) for IBM BladeCenter -- the first fully converged embedded 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch module and CNA designed specifically for IBM BladeCenter server environments. 

Videos On the eve of the London Symposium

08 Oct 2010

Gareth Spence and Stephan Rettenberger look ahead to this year's London Symposium and explore some of the hot topics that will be discussed, including cloud computing

Videos Ravensbourne Chooses Cisco to Transform New Campus Ahead of London 2012

07 Oct 2010

Chris Thompson, head of enterprise and innovation at Ravensbourne talking about their plans for 2012 and the Cisco Borderless Network.

News New solutions simplify deployment, improve security and accelerate performance of applications

06 Oct 2010

HP has announced new Converged Infrastructure solutions in networking, security and scalable computing that significantly enhance the delivery of application services to business.

News Force10 Introduces High Performance 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet Top-of-Rack Switch

06 Oct 2010

S55 switch offers non-blocking performance, energy efficient design and advanced network automation features for dynamic data center environments

Force10 Networks today announced the extension of its S-Series™ family with the new S55 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) top-of-rack (ToR) access switch. Optimized for data center environments, the new S55 provides a resilient and energy-efficient hardware design that delivers non-blocking, line-rate switching performance as well as support for the Force10 Open Automation Framework to make virtualized data center environments more responsive and manageable.

News IBM to acquire BLADE Network Technologies

05 Oct 2010

Technology to further optimize IBM servers for cloud computing, analytics and other new workloads.

Blog New Campus Grand Opening - IT's Time to Celebrate

01 Oct 2010

Tim Graumann writes: September marks the official grand opening of Brocade’s new Bay Area campus and with it an exciting new chapter in the company’s history. After years of hard, focused work, the new campus recently earned Brocade a place among the most innovative users of business technology. We have a lot of reasons to celebrate.

Videos Emerson Network Power & Knürr

01 Oct 2010

Emerson Network Power capabilities overview featuring power racks & enclosures, backup systems, embedded power, precision cooling, and connectivity technologies for data centers, telecommunications networks, and other applications.

News Siemon products support new IEEE 802.3ba Ethernet standard

30 Sep 2010

The recently ratified IEEE 802.3ba Standard specifies 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet applications for deployment over optical fibre cabling and high speed interconnect assemblies.

Videos Data Center Management & Storage Technologies: SAS Integration, RAID

30 Sep 2010

Data Center management and storage technologies coming to Intel's Romley platform. Integration of SAS via Patsburg and next generation RAID are discussed by Clive D'Souza, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Intel Storage Group.

Videos Treasury Centralisation at Goodrich Corporation

29 Sep 2010

Jeannot Jonas, director of global treasury operations at Goodrich Corporation, explains how AvantGard Treasury helps companies to achieve the goal of having a single system in place that can handle all treasury functions, while offering connectivity with banks, money market portals, cash management portals and foreign exchange portals.

News Optimising global online trading

28 Sep 2010

Capital Fund Management (CFM), a Paris-based global financial investment management company, has deployed a "new network" data center running the Junos® operating system to optimize its global trading infrastructure.

News IT Managers’ Migration Fears are Slowing Adoption of Exchange 2010

27 Sep 2010

New research finds the majority of organisations are planning to migrate to Microsoft Exchange 2010 but uncertainty remains over the need to upgrade existing hardware and software

Mimecast today announced the results of The Exchange Report, an exclusive study examining the IT department’s attitude to Microsoft Exchange and plans for future email strategies. The Exchange Report, sponsored by Mimecast, is based upon a survey of 250 IT decision makers at large UK organisations.  

Articles Point-to-Point vs Structured Cabling

24 Sep 2010

The old adage that history repeats itself is very true. If we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. Many data centers today are victims of historical point-to-point cabling practices.

Videos Avocent Interview from 360ºIT

24 Sep 2010

Ian Paul UK Channel Manager from Avocent speaks at 360ºIT

Videos Force10 Networks Interview @ 360ºIT 2010

24 Sep 2010

Steve Garrison and Michael Augustine from Force10 Networks talk at 360ºIT 2010

News Oracle outlines next major release of Oracle Solaris

23 Sep 2010

Oracle Solaris 11 Express to include advanced technology features and new Partner Program – paving the way for Oracle Solaris 11 in 2011.

News Internet Exchange doubles network capacity

17 Sep 2010

To cope with the surging appetite for bandwidth and today’s 24/7 Internet culture, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), one of the world’s largest Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), has doubled its network capacity by deploying new Brocade MLXe Core Routers as part of a core infrastructure upgrade.

News High density router

17 Sep 2010

The new Brocade MLXe router and IEEE standards-based 100 GbE blade deliver on the four value propositions of the Brocade One™ unified network vision: non-stop networking, investment protection, unmatched simplicity and application optimization. These value propositions align to today’s customer imperatives and help them remain ahead of the innovation curve by providing a clear growth path for next-generation networks.

News Brocade introduces Unified Network Management Platform

17 Sep 2010

The Brocade Network Advisor is a new platform that provides a single, easy-to-use management solution across Brocade Fibre Channel SANs, IP networks, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) networks, wireless networks and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks.

Videos PeopleSoft with F5's BIG-IP Web Acceleration & WAN Optimization

17 Sep 2010

In this side by side demo, you will see PeopleSoft users accessing the Human Capital Management application, both with and without acceleration from F5 Networks. How to accelerate Oracle PeopleSoft for remote users with both WAN and WEB optimization from F5's BIG-IP.

News Teradata-DataFlux Collaboration Helps Companies Better Manage Rising Data Volumes

16 Sep 2010

New initiative combines Teradata enterprise intelligence systems with DataFlux data quality technologies for master data management

DataFlux and Teradata today announced a partnership agreement for the Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) region which will integrate DataFlux data quality technology in Teradata data warehousing and master data management (MDM) environments. The solution is a joint offering that will enable organisations to more effectively manage growing volumes of detailed enterprise data accurately, reliably and consistently.

News Cisco expands data centre portfolio

15 Sep 2010

Cisco has introduced Unified Network Services, which are designed to deliver any network service in any environment and in any form factor, and Unified Fabric and Unified Computing enhancements to deliver increased deployment flexibility, simplicity and cost-effectiveness. Cisco also unveiled new professional services that help partners and customers realize the full value of their Cisco Data Center Business Advantage investments.

News China Mobile Shaanxi selects Juniper Networks for data center network

09 Sep 2010

The Shaanxi provincial arm of China Mobile has upgraded its Internet data center with Juniper's New Network based on the Junos® operating system to ensure the subscriber experience and improve the economics of the rapidly growing network. The deployment of Juniper Networks' routers, switches and security solutions provides China Mobile Shaanxi with a high-performance, low-latency and energy-efficient data center fabric with ample scalability and security to meet the expanding bandwidth and service delivery needs of their subscribers.

News Force10 unplugs the competition in data centre energy consumption; It's switch/routers consume up to 52% less power than largest competitor

08 Sep 2010

Independent testing by The Tolly Group shows the significant advantage Force10 offers over Cisco and Juniper for data centres looking to earn an Energy Star rating or implementing energy-efficiency measures to lower power and cooling costs.

Force10 today announced that its ExaScale E-Series chassis-based core switch/router consumed significantly less power than comparable Cisco and Juniper switches based on independent tests conducted by The Tolly Group and compared to vendor-published data. This demonstrated power savings advantage in both Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 10 GbE line-rate switching configurations enables data centres to lower energy consumption and related costs, and can contribute toward earning the recently announced data centre Energy Star rating.

Videos Customer Video: Fritz Egger

08 Sep 2010

FRITZ EGGER was running 16 separate SAP ERP environments, supporting a total of 2,000 users, on proprietary HP Alpha servers running HP True64 UNIX. The company had for some time wanted to move away from this proprietary hardware and software combination, both to reduce long-term costs and to free itself from reliance on a single vendor. When HP announced that the Alpha range was to be discontinued, FRITZ EGGER decided to actively seek out a new infrastructure for its SAP software.

News TX deploys Juniper Networks end-to-end networking solution

02 Sep 2010

STX Corporation, one of Korea's leading conglomerates, has deployed a complete high-performance networking solution running on the Junos® operating system at a new state-of-the-art office block near key production facilities in Kyungnam region. Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches and SRX Series Services Gateways installed in the STX Institute of Technology enable STX to increase organizational agility and scale operations while maintaining low operational overheads.

News Cisco announces intent to acquire Arch Rock

02 Sep 2010

Cisco has announced its intent to acquire privately held Arch Rock Corporation, a pioneer in Internet Protocol-based wireless network technology for smart-grid applications. Based in San Francisco, Arch Rock will accelerate Cisco's ability to facilitate the utility industry's transition to an open and interoperable smart grid by enabling Cisco to offer a comprehensive and highly secure advanced metering infrastructure solution that is fully IP and open-standards based.

News Mellanox InfiniBand selected by Goethe University of Frankfurt to accelerate vast range of scientific applications

31 Aug 2010

Mellanox® Technologies' industry-leading end-to-end 40Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity products, including ConnectX®-2 (LoM) adapters, IS5030 and IS5035 switches and cables, provide the high-performance server and storage networking for Goethe University’s Hessian high-performance computer (HHLR-GU) “LOEWE-CSC” supercomputer.

Videos Junos Connect: Video 8

31 Aug 2010

Junos Connect is your community-based video source for all things Junos. Highlighting some new features of Junos 10.3.

Videos City of Griffin On Its New Network Architecture

27 Aug 2010

Hear from Jack Poland, Director of IT for City of Griffin, GA on how his new network architecture and VM deployment has helped the city improve responsiveness and provide higher return on network investment.

Articles Data Centre Virtualisation: Context is Crucial

25 Aug 2010

Virtualisation has rapidly become one of the key foundation stones for operations teams as they look to realise greater data centre efficiencies. One of the main reasons for this is that virtualisation allows consolidation. Single physical systems can support multiple platforms at the same time, hence operating expenses are reduced. Owen Cole, Technical Director, F5 Networks writes.

Videos Freewire Broadband on Brocade IP Network

23 Aug 2010

Freewire Broadband is selling and servicing internet connections using Wireless (RF/Wimax) Technology. Freewire sells these connections to small-medium-large businesses using (RF/Wimax), also known as Fixed Wireless. Similar to AM and FM radio service; Fixed Wireless Broadband sends and receives radio signals from towers to antennas to pass data. Many carriers, such as the "Baby Bells" and AT&T have used, and still use, (RF) Microwave Radios as an alternative to burying Fiber Optics to backhaul their traffic over long distances.

News Entel chooses Cisco, NetApp and VMware

16 Aug 2010

Entel's Data Center Ciudad de los Valles will be able to reach unprecedented scalability levels and offer flexible services with simplified integration and efficient use of energy and physical space.

Videos New Network Data Center Security Solution: (Demo)

16 Aug 2010

Today's data center demands an advanced, end-to-end network security solution that can address evolving and multi-faceted security challenges. Juniper Networks new network data center security solution is addressing these challenges by focusing on three areas: making security dynamic and providing application visibility and identity-aware networking. The result is a cloud-ready data center network with security that is both intelligent and elastic.

Videos NextIO

12 Aug 2010

Dell's OEM Technology Evangelist Franklin Flint (@franklinatdell) and Business Development Manger Corbin Moore delivered a cutting edge PCIe chassis from our DCS Lab to NextIO labs for qualification.

Videos College of West Anglia chooses Brocade for campus-wide network

11 Aug 2010

Toby George, head of IT Services at the College of West Anglia (CWA), talks about why it deployed Brocade's high performance IP switch technology. This deployment will upgrade CWA's network, improve reliability and underpin a raft of new IT initiatives campus-wide, including voice over IP (VoIP), campus-wide wireless LAN (WLAN) and HD video production and transmission

Articles Data Centre Consolidation: Relying on Application Delivery Solutions

11 Aug 2010

The UK Government announced in January 2010 that it will cut the number of public data centres it uses from 130 to 10. HP made a move to consolidate its 85 data centres into 6, and Intel over 130 into eight dense data centres. Reader’s Digest, one of the world’s longest established traditional publishers announced as early as 1994 that it was commencing a five year plan to consolidate its 17 data centres, demonstrating that consolidation is not new to the IT agenda.

News Turkcell deploys Andrew’s InSite Connect remote cell site management system

11 Aug 2010

Turkcell can now remotely monitor and control its base station site operations—with the aim of decreasing operating expenses and optimising performance—thanks to its deployment of OneBase InSite® Connect, the site management solution from Andrew Solutions.

News Cisco and Hong Ngoc launch Vietnam's first Connected Hospital

10 Aug 2010

Cisco and Hong Ngoc Hospital, the health care division of Hong Ngoc Ltd., have announced a collaboration that makes Hong Ngoc Hospital the first private hospital in Vietnam to commit to a technologically advanced health care system. With the implementation of Cisco® Unified IP Phones over the foundation of a Cisco Medical-Grade Network, this collaboration allows a range of complex, mission-critical information to flow within the hospital with anytime, anywhere access while maximizing resource use and increasing business agility.

Videos Centre Hospitalier d'Avignon Uses BLADE VMready to Protect Patient Records

10 Aug 2010

Helene Sol, IT Manager at the Centre Hospitalier d'Avignon discusses how they used BLADE Network Technologies as the backbone of their new IT infrastructure.

News AppDirector achieves Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 12.1

10 Aug 2010

Radware says that its intelligent application delivery controller (ADC), AppDirector version 2.11, has achieved Oracle Validated Integration with the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 provides global organisations with a business foundation that reduces costs and increases productivity by leveraging a portfolio of rapid value solutions, integrated business processes and industry-focused solutions. Radware's AppDirector provides availability, scalability, performance and security of traffic management for Oracle E-Business Suite business transactions, providing long-term investment protection and business continuity as well as facilitating incremental growth demanded by businesses today.

Blog Monitoring is not Management

09 Aug 2010

Joe Polastre writes: There's been a lot of discussion recently about the difference between monitoring and management. This week, I received an email with the title "Revolutionizing Energy Management". Interesting, I wonder what management solution this company provides for energy. The content of the email went on to talk about a brand new meter that provides real time power load information. While I'm sure this company's meter is very innovative (names purposely omitted to protect the innocent), it was clear that this company did not understand what the word "management" even means.

Videos CommVault® Simpana® Whiteboard Series: Information Governance

09 Aug 2010

Simon Taylor, Senior Director of Information Access and Management at CommVault, talks about Information Governance, covering unified solutions for application, compliance, and records managers.

Videos F5 Summit: Interview with Andy Oehler

06 Aug 2010

Peter Silva talks with Andy Oehler, Product Manager for F5's Secure Access Solutions, about BIG-IP Edge Gateway and BIG-IP Access Policy Manager. From the F5 Summit in Chicago.

Videos Customer Video: Websense

06 Aug 2010

Websense, a leader in unified web, data and email security solutions, reveals how it achieved significant growth in key markets by working with Dell OEM Solutions. It describes the way Dell OEM Solutions delivered a customised solution on a high-performance Dell server platform and provided technical support for Websense customers worldwide.

Blog Open Systems SnapVault (OSSV) and Deduplication - Fooling Around With 4K Blocks

06 Aug 2010

A little while ago I blogged about how SnapVault and Deduplication work together for efficient D2D backups. SnapVault allows two NetApp systems to back each other up using block-level incremental snapshots and automatic deduplication. But what if you think that SnapVault is so cool you want to use it for all you backups, including DAS data stored directly on servers? In this blog I’ll tell you how you can do this with another type of SnapVault - Open Systems SnapVault, otherwise known as OSSV.

News Imperva Partners with ActiveBase to Provide first-ever Joint Data Activity Monitoring and Data Masking Solution

06 Aug 2010

Imperva announced today it has partnered with ActiveBase, a pioneer in Dynamic Data Masking, to provide the broadest protection for sensitive data available today. Imperva and ActiveBase will jointly sell and implement the full solution.

News Hype cycle shows two generations of EA

05 Aug 2010

Gartner, Inc.'s 2010 Hype Cycle for enterprise architecture (EA) reveals that two generations of EA, one currently focusing on IT-oriented practices and the other rising to focus on integrating and engaging with the business. The Hype Cycle also shows how EA will further evolve and how enterprise architects will utilise and govern EA within the business in the next 10 years.

Videos EMEA Core Technology - If Not, Why Not?

05 Aug 2010

Chris Baker, SVP Core Technology EMEA, outlines how the Oracle Database business is still growing and how database options provide partners with new ways to grow their Oracle business.

News Belgium National Internet eXchange selects Force10 Networks

04 Aug 2010

European Internet exchange deploys ExaScale E-Series switch/routers to power high-speed, congestion-free peering services for broad range of organisations.

Videos Duke University: Managing More with Less Using Unified Storage

04 Aug 2010

Duke University Assistant Director of Infrastructure Systems Eric Johnson and Senior Storage Network Administrator Brian Boyd describe why this top university with over 12,000 students and 30,000 employees turned to EMC to manage its continually growing data.

News Brocade proves that the entire network is your data

03 Aug 2010

Brocade has announced dates for the Brocade Conference series that will take place during November and December in the UK, France, Germany and the UAE. The Brocade Conference will allow delegates to learn more about Brocade One™, the unifying network architecture and strategy that enables customers to simplify the complexity of virtualising their applications. In addition to this, attendees will discover how to harness the power of industry-leading networking technologies and to better understand how to simplify the management and protect their existing technology investments.

Articles Shifting The Mix: A Practical Approach To Making IT More Strategic

03 Aug 2010

Today’s IT budget is spent mostly on “keeping the lights on”. In fact, roughly 70% of the budget is spent on sustaining and running existing capability while only 30% is spent on providing new capabilities to the business. The business, together with IT, needs to find ways to increase the value created by the existing and new investments in IT.

Articles Reducing Costs Through Better Server Utilization

02 Aug 2010

As IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures, maintaining datacenter agility is critical By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs—without sacrificing performance or impacting service levels.

Articles Global CIO: Oracle Reveals Strategy And Customers For White-Hot Exadata

30 Jul 2010

Transcending data warehousing and OLTP, Oracle's Exadata is triggering an industrywide redefinition of the core IT systems that fire the global economy.

Oracle's 22-month-old Exadata Database Machine has leapfrogged the data-warehousing market and become a major player in high-end OLTP environments, and is now being positioned as a core database-consolidation platform due to its unprecedented capacity and throughput.

Videos MDeC deploys an IBM solution consisting of the XIV Storage System

30 Jul 2010

MDeC deploys an IBM solution consisting of the XIV Storage System, the System x: iDataPlex servers and the Animation Cloud services. The solution marries the best of technologies and know how to provide more available and robust services to their customers.

News End-to-end FCoE solution with VMware

29 Jul 2010

As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp and VMware have announced the industry's first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware-virtual environments.

News Cardiff University expands deployment of Brocade

29 Jul 2010

University has spent £5 million on Brocade technology since 2003, deploying Brocade BigIron, FastIron and NetIron platforms to deliver a high-performance campus-wide solution.

Videos Global IT Council

28 Jul 2010

Daryl Plummer and David Cappuccio introduce the benefits you can get from the Global IT Council. View a related webinar: http://is.gd/dDyip

Articles Data Protection and Disaster Recovery within the Cloud

27 Jul 2010

Cloud computing is an increasingly persuasive business model for many organisations, and especially for those with remote offices or for small-to-medium (SMB) businesses that are looking for cost-effective technology offerings. Analyst firms predict significant growth and use of the cloud for data storage; however, SMBs and start-ups are, in fact, more likely to adopt these services into their IT infrastructures than large enterprises.

Videos DoubleTake & Vision Solutions Merger

26 Jul 2010

Nicholaas Vlok, CEO of Vision Solutions speaks about completing the merger agreement with Double-Take Software and how the combination of the two companies expand their global service and products for the disaster recovery for IBM Power Systems, Windows, Linux and Cloud Computing market

News DataCentre Expo’s Visitor Marketing reaches over 1 million internationally

23 Jul 2010

DataCentre Expo’s visitor marketing plan is extremely high-profile, with a ‘global reach’ of over 1 million recipients.

Email broadcasts, off-the-page advertisements, online advertising and press coverage will really take off throughout July and August. The marketing campaign has already produced impressive results with appearances in: IT Mittelstand, eWeek and Network Computing, DV Dialogue, Manage IT and of course TheDataChain.

Articles Quo Vadis, SNMP? Part 1: Introducing SNMP

21 Jul 2010

As business efficiency becomes more and more dependent on connected computer systems, monitoring and ensuring their reliability in performance is absolutely necessary. Because of the huge amount of devices on the market, supplied by various manufacturers, it was imperative to introduce a standard for this kind of monitoring. That is why IETF1 developed Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) towards the end of the 80s. Today, the third generation of SNMP is still the standard for network management – not least because there is no practical alternative. However, the use of this protocol as a basis for extensive network management is not unproblematic – it requires comprehensive know-how and sometimes the ability to improvise.

Articles Quo Vadis, SNMP? Part 2: Putting SNMP into practice

21 Jul 2010

In the first part of this White Paper, we looked at the basic features of SNMP, the history, problems, and future prospects. Alternatives to the established, yet frequently problematic, protocol were also shown. This second part focuses on the technical side – from the use of MIBs to the practical setup of network monitoring. As the developer of an established network monitoring software, Paessler AG has been dealing with SNMP extensively since 1996 and has looked closely into its options – and inadequacies.

News Station Casinos bets on Cisco

20 Jul 2010

Station Casinos Inc., a large casino and resort operator in Las Vegas, has implemented one of the gaming industry's most sophisticated data center infrastructures using the Cisco Unified Computing System. The network-based infrastructure serves as a platform for virtualizing a number of operations and gaming applications, from mobile Internet Protocol phone and safety systems to account-based sports betting.

News Atempo Joins the Active Archive Alliance

20 Jul 2010

Industry Association Dedicated to Education and Awareness of Active Archiving

Atempo today announced that it has joined the Active Archive Alliance, a non-profit storage industry association dedicated to market education on the evolving use of active archives for simplified, online access to all unstructured file data.

Videos Dimension Data Talks Video, Collaboration

20 Jul 2010

Raoul Tecala from Dimension Data discusses the importance of collaboration and how Cisco helps along the way.

News Single architecture fo SEDCO's traffic

16 Jul 2010

The Saudi Economic and Development Holding Company (SEDCO), a leading private wealth management organization, has selected Brocade to develop a high performance IP network for its new facility in Red Sea Mall, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Featuring Brocade FastIron Super X and Brocade FastIron GS Series switches, the network allows SEDCO to converge voice and data traffic over a single architecture while providing the scalability to grow with the company’s demands.

News Daxten signs Vello

16 Jul 2010

Daxten has announced a distribution agreement covering Europe, Middle East, and African (EMEA) markets, with Vello Systems, a leader in next-generation high performance IP+Optical networking systems for carriers and eEnterprise.

Videos NYSE Euronext Standardizes on JBoss Enterprise Middleware

16 Jul 2010

"We've been running mission-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a long time. It was that experience and those results that led us to consider JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and we're satisfied, and not surprised, knowing that Red Hat's middleware solutions are as enterprise-class as its platform solutions."
- Brian Clark, chief software architect, NYSE Euronext

Articles Redstor and Education Bradford

15 Jul 2010

Education Bradford Select RBUSS to Improve Services.

"The online backup service from Redstor has completely transformed how we backup school data so much so that we have no hesitation in recommending it to other authorities"

The Local Education Authority is based on collaboration between Bradford Council and Serco PLC, an international service company which combines commercial know-how with a public service ethos. It improves services by managing people, processes, technology and assets more effectively.

News HP Secures Applications Services Contract with 3M

15 Jul 2010

HP Enterprise Services today announced that 3M, which produces thousands of innovative products for dozens of diverse markets, has signed a multimillion dollar, three-year applications services agreement to help improve productivity, enabling the company to get innovative products into the market more quickly.

Videos Customer Video: Priceline.com

14 Jul 2010

Juniper has been fundamental in helping us build a faster, simpler and more cost-effective data center network infrastructure," said Michael P. Diliberto, CIO, Priceline.com. "We've reduced our network operating costs dramatically by occupying far less rack space and consuming less power than our old gear. It's rare that you find a technology that helps you reduce cost and increase quality and scalability, while simultaneously increasing speed and agility.

Articles Change the Channel Please

14 Jul 2010

Where are we now?

Every so often the technology channel has to adapt to changing economies and technologies. 2009 saw the start of one of these channel changes with the onset of a recession. Despite the initial belief that the technology industry would not be hit by the recession a survey of 270 CIOs by Datamonitor confirmed that 23% of senior executives felt budget cuts stopped them winning business and new technologies seemed more of a nice to have than a necessity, many were happy to "make do" with what they had already paid for.

Articles Old Mutual Mitigates Hardware Spend and Halves Helpdesk Calls with Triometric

13 Jul 2010

Old Mutual is a leading international long-term savings group. Established in 1845 in South Africa, the FTSE 100 Company now serves the growing demands of customers, companies and their advisors in 35 countries.

Videos Customer Video: Old Mutual

13 Jul 2010

Old Mutual Mitigates Hardware Spend and Halves Hyperion Helpdesk Calls with Triometric

News Imperva Introduces File Security Family to Help Mitigate Insider Threats

13 Jul 2010

Expands Data Security Suite Beyond Web Applications and Databases to File Systems

Imperva, the leader in data security, announced today the introduction of a new family of File Security products, the latest addition to the company’s SecureSphere Data Security Suite. Imperva’s File Security products include SecureSphere File Firewall, which prevents unauthorized access to unstructured data residing on file servers, network attached storage (NAS). Additionally, SecureSphere File Activity Monitoring (FAM) allows enterprises to monitor access to sensitive file data, establish audit for compliance and reduce data access rights to a business need-to-know level. With this product expansion, Imperva’s data security suite helps enterprises protect not only web applications and databases but file systems as well.

Videos Brocade and Microsoft Team Up to Deliver Seamless UC Experience

12 Jul 2010

Warren Barkley, senior director of Microsoft's Unified Communications group, talks about how Brocade networking technologies work with Microsoft products to deliver high performance, best-in-class UC solutions to customers.

Articles Is your network monitoring equipment still working for you?

12 Jul 2010

Any IT Manager worth his salt knows a corporate network cannot run efficiently without some degree of network performance management. But with corporate networks becoming progressively more complex and being required to support increasingly sophisticated applications, how many can confidently claim their network monitoring and performance management systems are still up to the job?

Sean O’Donnell, SevOne’s director for EMEA, looks at the impact of developments in enterprise applications on the corporate network and the risks faced by businesses which fail to invest in effective network performance management tools.

Articles Increasing IT Efficiency in a Dynamic Datacenter with a Virtualized Storage Solution

12 Jul 2010

End to End Efficiency Delivered by Microsoft Server Virtualization and Compellent Storage Virtualization

Datacenter efficiency is a large concern for Information Technology (IT) management as demands for services continue to increase while budgets continue to be reduced. Supporting growth and maintaining availability per the service level agreements while mitigating the risks to critical data, systems, applications, and the computing infrastructure in the event of a system outage or a complete disaster presents an ongoing challenge from both a technological and a business perspective. Organizations must consistently find solutions that not only meet application and data requirements for capacity, performance, and availability, but also have proven return on investment and cost reduction capabilities.

Articles Managing the Cloud: An Even Greater Need for IT Cost Transparency

12 Jul 2010

While there is considerable controversy about what technologies and approaches constitute “Cloud Computing,” the overall idea is that customers can buy and use computing on demand. The computing power resides on the Internet – the Internet is often represented as a cloud in architecture diagrams– and people access this computing power as they need it via the Internet.

Videos Customer Testimonial: Credit Market Analysis

12 Jul 2010

Ryan Sclanders, IT Infrastructure Manager for Credit Market Research talks about the challenges of their high volume data requirements and how they came to choosing their provider to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

News Driving green networking

09 Jul 2010

ADVA Optical Networking has been selected to participate in a research project focused on the development of a new generation of photonic components that will reduce power consumption and reduce costs. Named "Colorless and Coolerless Components for Low-Power Optical Networks" (C-3PO), the grant-based project is focused on increasing communications network capacity for the next generation of optical-networking applications.

Videos Drive Encryption Management with Intel® RAID Controllers

09 Jul 2010

Get even more performance and data protection with Intel Premium Features for RAID solutions. When combined with Intel® RAID controllers, you can further enhance storage applications and deliver higher ROI for your server boards and systems

News Isilon chosen by NavTeq to scale out file-based applications

08 Jul 2010

Global Leader in Maps, Traffic and Location Data Deploys Isilon Scale-out Storage to Help Drive Increased Data Availability and Workflow Efficiency

Isilon today announced that NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data, has deployed multiple tiers of Isilon scale-out storage to help support its comprehensive database of digital location content. Working with leading data center solutions provider and Isilon partner Datalink, NAVTEQ has deployed the Isilon IQ X-Series and NL-Series across multiple international data centers to aggregate content, software development and other file-based applications onto a single, shared storage resource, increasing data availability and workflow productivity. Using Isilon scale-out storage, featuring its OneFS® operating system, NAVTEQ can support a wide range of applications simultaneously from a single file system, simplifying management and improving data access, while reducing storage costs and complexity.

Videos Euronics implemented the IBM XIV Storage System

08 Jul 2010

Euronics implemented the IBM XIV Storage System to help them achieve their four goals of reliability, flexibility, performance, and ease of use and to meet the demands of their dealers. They are the largest German buying group in consumer electronics with two thousand dealers in Germany.

News Isilon helps Central and Eastern Europe's largest broadcast over satellite provider meet growing demand

07 Jul 2010

STN gains rock-solid reliability and a huge boost in performance while helping the company reduce number of staff assigned to managing storage by 40%.

Isilon today announced that STN, a leading teleport service provider delivering broadcasts over satellite for Central and Eastern Europe, has successfully implemented an Isilon scale-out Storage platform for its existing environment and to help migrate clients onto its new playout system and meet strong demand for its innovative services.

Blog Storage Optimisation Part 2

06 Jul 2010

The second part of Philip Howard's article on Storage Optimisation.

This is the second of two articles about storage optimisation. In the first I discussed how an optimal solution would be one based around discovering (at a detailed level) all of your SAN infrastructure resources (servers, disks and so on) in real-time to create a consolidated view of the entire environment. Then for the solution to take that awareness, combine it with any specific, unique policy or other restrictions that might be in place, and to apply business intelligence principles to the problem of how you might optimise those resources. As a result of this analysis you would like the software to recommend potential solutions, allowing you to choose which one you prefer and, once that determination has been made, for the software to implement relevant changes (actually prepare the storage for migration and then to perform the data migration) for you automatically.

News Architectural flexibility for virtualisation and The Cloud

02 Jul 2010

Cisco has introduced new technology that supports its Data Center 3.0 strategy to help customers increase the flexibility of their data centers as they become more virtualized and cloud-based. The new technology advances Cisco's underlying unified fabric capabilities that help customers enhance the efficiency of information delivery in physical and virtualized data center environments, and manage public and private cloud resources more effectively.

Videos Andrew Butler highlights Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit 2010

01 Jul 2010

As a Data Center professional you are expected to "do more with less" and be a key enabler towards business growth and manage business change. Find the nuggets of fresh learning and knowledge that will show the business why they should count on you and how you can help the business look beyond the cost discussion to new opportunities for growth.

News Ensuring business continuity in a converged Infrastructure

30 Jun 2010

HP has introduced new high-performance security solutions designed to prevent network breaches in a Converged Infrastructure by delivering comprehensive data protection across both physical and virtual environments.

News Nexans welcomes the selection of GG45 in new ISO data centre standard

29 Jun 2010

Nexans has welcomed the latest data centre standard from the international standards organisation ISO. The standard, ISO/IEC 24764, was published in April and requires copper cabling to support a minimum frequency of at least 500MHz. This effectively limits data centre copper cabling to Class EA (500MHz), Class F (600MHz) or Class FA 1000MHz) cabling and an RJ45 compatible connector interface.

Videos Luxembourg Stock Exchange implemented IBM XIV systems

29 Jun 2010

Luxembourg Stock Exchange implemented two full IBM XIV systems at each of two data centers, with synchronous mirroring for protection against disaster. The solution delivers high performance and availability, with automated load balancing and data protection.

Videos Data Backup Compliance - Wockhardt entrusts Tivoli

28 Jun 2010

In this video Suresh of Wockhardt tells us that after evaluating Tivoli & Veritas they chose Tivoli because it scored higher on some key features. After implementing Tivoli, the manual intervention that was required earlier in the areas like media management and data restoration was greatly reduced resulting in increase of productivity.

Suresh Shenoy, Sr. Vice president-IT, Wockhardt hospitals

Blog Assessing Risk in the Virtual Data Center

28 Jun 2010

Brian Gracely from Cisco writes:

Having lived through both the Internet bubble in 2001 and the Housing/CDO bubble in 2008, we’re all too familiar with what happens when large inter-connected entities start having problems. It can often be like watching dominos fall. Things were really great when the systems appeared to be working according to the plan, but then “the plan” got sidetracked and bad things started happening that weren’t on the radar.

News Converged infrastructure innovations

25 Jun 2010

HP says it has created industry firsts in server, storage, network and power management technologies that enable clients to shift millions of dollars in operational costs to activities that drive business innovation. HP Converged Infrastructure provides a blueprint for clients that want to eliminate sprawl, complexity and excess maintenance costs.

Articles Major U.S. Healthcare Provider ‘Prescribes’ BMC Software To Ensure High-Quality Patient Care

24 Jun 2010

When Novant Health needed to replace its IT service management (ITSM) tools and processes, the North Carolina-based non-profit healthcare system selected BMC Software’s (NASDAQ: BMC) Business Service Management (BSM) platform to ensure the changes supported the hospital system’s No. 1 priority – providing quality patient care.

Videos ADVA Optical Networking and Spread Networks from New York to Chicago

23 Jun 2010

Christine Keck and Brian Quigley discuss ADVA Optical Networking and Spread Networks' announcement of a new ultra low-latency dark fiber network, which provides 13.33ms connectivity between New York and Chicago, and the importance of this network to the finance community

Videos HP BladeSystem Firsts: A Guided Tour

23 Jun 2010

Join HP's Gary Thome on a guided tour of new HP BladeSystem innovations.

News London Grid deploys simplified network

22 Jun 2010

The London Grid for Learning (LGfL), the world's largest fiber network for education purposes, has upgraded its data center network with a high-performance infrastructure from Juniper, including routing, switching and security solutions. The upgraded network enables LGfL to provide bandwidth-rich multimedia teaching and learning services, including videoconferencing with museums and specialist learning centers; content streaming; and online managed learning resources to all 2,600 primary and secondary schools in greater London.

News Q1 Labs Announces QRadar Security Intelligence Operating System (SIOS)

22 Jun 2010

Powering the Network Security Industry’s First Security Intelligence Platform

Q1 Labs today announced QRadar SIOS - the Security Intelligence Operating System - which powers the QRadar family of security intelligence products. QRadar SIOS is the foundation of the industry's first total Security Intelligence Platform, a common framework for collecting, warehousing, filtering, analyzing and reporting on all security intelligence telemetry. This integrated solution will be the platform for risk management, SIEM , log management , and network and application activity monitoring, as well as all new products to be delivered by Q1 Labs and partners.

Videos Intel vPro Technology MSP Case Study - Sabio

21 Jun 2010

Sabio's strategy is to offer enterprise-class service to SMB customers using advanced tools such as Intel vPro technology-based PCs. Intel vPro technology's remote capabilities allow Sabio to reduce PC downtime by 20% and deskside visits by 25%. Antivirus patches can be pushed to PCs that are turned off, reducing technician time spent on patching and speeding critical updates.

News Brocade achieves network simplification

17 Jun 2010

Brocade has introduced unique converged fabric-based innovations designed to radically simplify network architectures. These new innovations will help enable the seamless transition to highly virtualized infrastructures where information and services are available anywhere in the cloud.

Videos Brocade and Microsoft Team Up to Deliver Seamless UC Experience

10 Jun 2010

Warren Barkley, senior director of Microsoft's Unified Communications group, talks about how Brocade networking technologies work with Microsoft products to deliver high performance, best-in-class UC solutions to customers.

News New Datacenter Solutions From Dell Deliver Efficiency And Performance Without Compromise

10 Jun 2010

Customers in the ‘Virtual Era’ demand IT solutions that drive efficiency, rapidly deliver business value and drive innovation without locking organizations into proprietary technology. Harnessing more than 25 years of expertise in meeting customers’ requirements, Dell today unveiled new technology, services, management tools and business ready solutions that preserve choice and help customers reduce the time required to build, manage and maintain an efficient datacenter.

News Bright future for European Cloud Providers

10 Jun 2010

The majority of Europe-headquartered public cloud providers are expecting their business to expand this year. 85% of the organizations surveyed for IDC's European Cloud Provider's Technology Investment Survey indicated that they expected their business to expand. The majority (70%) expected growth through demand from their local markets, with 30% looking at new geographic opportunities.

News Switch built for dynamic, virtualised environments

02 Jun 2010

Force10 Networks has extended its S-Series™ access switch line with the introduction of the S60 top-of-rack (ToR) Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch. As the first switch purpose-built for dynamic virtualized data center environments, the S60 answers challenging application needs and lowers operational costs at the rack edge by leveraging new features and functionality, including ultra-deep buffering and “bare metal” auto-configuration, as well as proven Force10 product attributes, such as low power consumption and non-blocking, line-rate switching.

News Data centre hosting services for Saudi market

28 May 2010

Cisco, VMware and EMC coalition helps to secure strategic data center win to enable STC to introduce Managed IT Services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

News IBM agrees to acquire Sterling Commerce

25 May 2010

IBM and AT& have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Sterling Commerce from AT&T for approximately $1.4 billion in cash.

News Transforming data centre economics and experience

18 May 2010

Juniper Networks has unveiled new software, services, systems and partnerships that will help enterprise IT dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of data center networking while also improving application and business performance.

News IBM opens Development Laboratory

18 May 2010

IBM has opened a new systems software development laboratory in Manchester. With a focus on IBM Power Systems, the engineers in the Lab develop optimisation, security, and virtualisation software to help clients manage emerging workloads designed to reduce data centre costs.

News Beijing Genomics Institute powers one of the world's largest DNA sequencing environments with Isilon IQ

27 Apr 2010

Asia’s Largest Genomics Institute Deploys Isilon Scale-out NAS to Power More than 100 Illumina Sequencers, Speeding Time-to-Discovery while Reducing Capital and Operating Costs

News Hi-tech spending to increase

23 Apr 2010

Marketing spending among high-tech and telecom providers (HTTPs) is picking up in 2010, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that 44 per cent of 2010 HTTP marketing budgets will be flat compared with 2009, 41 per cent will increase and only 15 per cent are likely to decrease. This compares favorably to 2009 when more than half of providers' marketing organisations took cuts in their budgets compared to 2008.

News Native Fibre Channel added to testing solution

23 Apr 2010

Ixia has introduced a new native fibre channel test solution for network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), enterprise data centres, information and storage service providers, and cloud computing services.

Videos CERN Deploys Force10 Networks

20 Apr 2010

CERN deploys Force10 Networks

News DataCentre Expo set for Dusseldorf

16 Apr 2010

Europe’s first fully dedicated, expo led data centre event will take place in Düsseldorf, 16^th – 17^th Sept 2010.

News Gartner says worldwide IT spending to grow 5.3 per cent in 2010

12 Apr 2010

Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.4 trillion in 2010, a 5.3 per cent increase from IT spending of $3.2 trillion in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. The IT industry will continue to show steady growth with IT spending in 2011 projected to surpass $3.5 trillion, a 4.2 per cent increase from 2010.

News WAN optimisation performance taken to ‘new heights’

09 Apr 2010

Advanced operating system enables easy deployment, management & monitoring with increased levels of optimization.

Videos Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010

08 Apr 2010

Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010. For more information, see our events page.

News Additions to Data Center 3.0 portfolio

08 Apr 2010

Cisco has introduced continued innovation and additions to its Data Center 3.0 portfolio, designed to reduce IT infrastructure cost and complexity, provide better support for data center virtualization, and improve business agility to deliver strategic competitive advantages.

News Enterprises under-investing in the protection of corporate secrets

07 Apr 2010

Focus on protecting compliance-related data needs to expand to more valuable intellectual property.

News National University of Singapore migrates WAN to Juniper Networks

07 Apr 2010

Juniper MX and M series routers increase capacity and reliability while enabling IPv6 Inter-networking with other academic institutions.

Blog It's (still) not just about bandwidth

06 Apr 2010

Mark Lewis from Riverbed writes:

It’s interesting to see how much has changed in the WAN (Wide Area Network) optimisation space over the last half a decade or more, yet some things haven’t changed much. Five years ago I recall a white paper had been written on the subject titled, “It’s not just about bandwidth”. At the time bandwidth reduction was a great story and the management reports within Steelhead were great at sharing how much bandwidth had been saved, but although some organisations were able to justify the business case on bandwidth alone many struggled. Saving bandwidth which gives rise to potential cost savings or as in most cases, defers bandwidth upgrades, is only part of the story and for most, a small part of the story. The real deal only happens as we speed up data across the WAN through either optimising the transport layer or better still accelerating the applications.

News Powering network infrastructure

31 Mar 2010

New Indonesian office building deploys Force10 Ethernet switch/router solutions to deliver network services to tenants.

Videos Avocent - MTC Reston

31 Mar 2010

Avocent testimonial video with partner Microsoft Technology Centre in Reston, near Washington DC

Videos Classify & Collect by Iron Mountain

31 Mar 2010

Iron Mountain's Connected Classify & Collect offering simplifies the collection of laptop and desktop data for eDiscovery

News Cisco, GDSYS and Incheon Metropolitan City collaborate in building next-generation green data center

26 Mar 2010

Cisco networking solutions and technology to be used to build ubiquitous service platform.

News Baulderstone slashes IT infrastructure costs

26 Mar 2010

Building and engineering giant cuts WAN bandwidth usage in half and cuts data replication times; expected ROI in 14 months.

News Telenor selects Transmode for Metro Core Networks

25 Mar 2010

Telenor Group, a Norwegian global telecommunications services provider, has signed an agreement for Transmode's WDM equipment to build a new optical DWDM metro core network in Norway. Telenor is deploying Transmode's TM-Series throughout 200 sites in order to meet the increasing demand for capacity from both fixed and mobile broadband traffic.

Blog thedatachain of thought2

24 Mar 2010

"The notion that a single converged data center network makes for fewer switches and ports, resulting in a simpler network consuming less power and cooling, is flawed, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner research shows that a converged data center network requires more switches and ports, is more complex to manage and consumes more power and cooling than two well-designed separate networks."

News Converge all data center traffic to a single technology, not a single network

24 Mar 2010

The notion that a single converged data center network makes for fewer switches and ports, resulting in a simpler network consuming less power and cooling, is flawed, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner research shows that a converged data center network requires more switches and ports, is more complex to manage and consumes more power and cooling than two well-designed separate networks.

News Accelerating service delivery and supporting online patient data

24 Mar 2010

Data centre upgrade enhances performance, scalability and energy efficiency to improve care to the region’s 600,000 patients.

Blog Cisco Unified Computing System and Intel Xeon 5600 achieve record-breaking performances

22 Mar 2010

by Harris Sussman, Cisco Data Center Solutions - Unified Computing System

Opinions vary widely as to the criticality of computing benchmarks, but most people agree they are required, and an important data point. One month ago, I already shared with you the importance of reviewing data for virtualization .
Today, Cisco announced some breakthrough results based on industry standard benchmarks for virtualized environments as well as other key data center applications.

Cisco continues to prove it’s Unified Computing System is not only an architectural game changer, but it’s wide adoption and consistent performance are impressing folks like Boyd Davis, General Manager, Data Center Marketing, Intel who said “It’s quite an achievement for Cisco to have scored so high on so many of the industry benchmarking tests”

News World’s fastest single-chip Ethernet switch

19 Mar 2010

Enables mass deployment of 10Gbps in the data Centre.

News Brocade powers the largest Internet Exchange Point in Italy

17 Mar 2010

Brocade BigIron switches help the Milan Internet Exchange to manage surging Internet traffic volumes, reaching peaks of 54 Gbps.

News HP ProLiant G6 servers with new Intel Xeon processor 5600 series

17 Mar 2010

HP is expanding the ProLiant G6 portfolio with 16 servers based on the new Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series.

News GTS CE selects Ciena to improve service delivery in Romania

15 Mar 2010

GTS Telecom, a Romanian service provider and part of GTS Central Europe (GTS CE), the fast-growing alternative carrier in the Central and Eastern Europe region, is future-proofing its network with Ciena’s CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform family to address rising demand for capacity and new services, including 10 Gbps Ethernet (10 GbE).

Blog thedatachain of thought

11 Mar 2010

The 'soft' launch of thedatachain continues to go well - with several key content partners on board, and more in the pipeline. Our intention is to use video as the primary delivery mechanism - short, sharp, incisive comment from vendors, analysts and end users as we visit the many data centre, virtualisation and cloud events out there. This content is backed up by vendors own video content, plus the site's strong news focus, articles and, over time, a valuable information source on buzz topics.

News CIOs still not implementing optimum data centre management practices

10 Mar 2010

Despite the recession, large European organizations still expect their spending on staff working on datacenter management to grow by 10% over the next year, approximately nine-times the expected growth in IT spending in 2010, according to IDC.

News Budapest Internet Exchange deploys E-Series switch/router to provide scalable performance

09 Mar 2010

The Budapest Internet Exchange (BIX) has selected Force10 Networks’ E-Series switch/routers to provide highly reliable performance and unmatched scalability for its growing customer base of internet service providers (ISPs) and telcos in Hungary and Eastern Europe.

News Brocade expands Channel team

09 Mar 2010

Brocade is expanding its EMEA channel team to better serve the needs of its networking partner community.

News UCS improves business operations

23 Feb 2010

Winterflood Securities, one of the leading liquidity providers in London, has deployed the Cisco Unified Computing System to improve the resilience, agility, scalability and flexibility of its high frequency trading platform.