Cray Buys Gnodal Networking Assets, Hires Key People
British high-end Ethernet switch maker Gnodal went into administration in early October, and Cray has hired the key staff at the company while also picking up a bunch of ...Full Article
Mellanox Weaves Tightly Into OpenStack, Adds Long Haul Switches
Mellanox is making headway selling its networking hardware and software in both public and private clouds, as EnterpriseTech has previously reported. But the company has to make it easier ...Full Article
Juniper Wraps Smarter Fabrics Around Faster Switches
If you have a need for networking speed, Juniper Networks is rolling out a new line of Ethernet switches in its QFX line that offer more bandwidth, more ports, ...Full Article
Mellanox Banks On Storage and Cloud For Future Growth
Clouds, storage arrays, and clustered database servers are turning into very good drivers of business for Mellanox Technologies. These target markets together now account for more sales than its ...Full Article
Facebook Tech Director Reveals Open Networking Plan
Facebook is a classic example of an exponentially growing business with extreme scale IT needs that cannot do things in the data center the way traditional large enterprises do. ...Full Article
Brocade Dials Bandwidth Up With Latest Ethernet Switches
With 10 Gb/sec Ethernet finally taking off in the data center, large enterprises now need more bandwidth on uplinks coming off their top-of-rack switches and into the core switches ...Full Article
Dell Certifies QLogic Adapters for Converged Network Switch
Dell has given its stamp of approval for a pair of QLogic adapters to be used in its converged S5000 networking switch, which is a key component of Dell’s ...Full Article
OpenDaylight Lifts the Veil on ‘Hydrogen’ SDN Software Stack
The OpenDaylight consortium is trying to do for software-defined networking what Linux did for operating systems. And that is to provide an open source set of tools for virtualizing ...Full Article
Juniper’s Contrail Virtualizes Networks Without OpenFlow
Like other switch and router suppliers, Juniper Networks has to bring virtualization to the network to make connectivity more malleable and manageable. It's either that or someone else will. ...Full Article
