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Arista and VMware Announce Relationship

August 8th, 2014 (0)

Arista Networks, Inc. and VMware, Inc. today announced a strategic relationship to enable customers to accelerate adoption of network virtualization in the software-defined data center (SDDC). This new collaboration agreement builds on the companies' four year relationship in developing innovative, ...

Cumulus Networks Releases Cumulus Linux 2.2

August 5th, 2014 (0)

Cumulus Networks today announced the availability of Cumulus Linux 2.2. This release adds support for a new hardware architecture along with new features for operational efficiency, empowering customers with more choice, ease and flexibility for modern data center solutions. Just ...

Mellanox and ProLabs Collaborate

August 4th, 2014 (0)

Mellanox Technologies and ProLabs jointly announced that ProLabs has been appointed to supply Mellanox’s comprehensive LinkX product portfolio of 10/40/56Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet QSFP+ and SFP+ cables and modules in the EMEA region and the United States. “It’s a very significant strategic ...

Cavium to Acquire Xpliant

July 31st, 2014 (0)

Cavium, Inc. has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Xpliant, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in San Jose, California. Xpliant is a provider of high performance, high density switch silicon targeting a broad range of switching applications for ...

Mark Potter, HP Senior Executive, Joins Solarflare Board of Directors

July 31st, 2014 (0)

Solarflare today announced the appointment of Mark Potter — senior vice president and chief technology officer of HP’s Enterprise Group (EG) — to the firm’s Board of Directors. As a member of Solarflare’s Board of Directors, Potter brings decades ...

SolarWinds NPM 11.0 Released

July 30th, 2014 (0)

SolarWinds today announced its latest release of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM). The company’s flagship and award-winning network performance monitoring solution has added new, enterprise-class deep packet inspection (DPI) and analysis technology to troubleshoot network performance on application latency. Finally, network engineers at any size organization ...

NEC and Meru Networks Collaborate

July 23rd, 2014 (0)

NEC Corporation of America (NEC) and Meru Networks today announced an agreement through which the two companies will work together to create SDN-enabled unified wired and wireless enterprise access networking solutions. The two companies are collaborating on support for ...

Mellanox Expands LinkX Family of Cables

July 21st, 2014 (0)

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. today announced the general availability of Direct Attach Cables (DACs) with colored jackets and colored pull tabs, supporting interconnect speeds of 10, 40 and 56Gb/s for both Ethernet and InfiniBand data center networks. The new colored ...

Brocade Joins 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium

July 16th, 2014 (0)

Brocade has announced that it has joined the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium in support of an industry standard that increases the performance and reduces the cost of data center networks, which run over a 25 or 50 Gigabit per second ...

Fujitsu Develops Technology that Reduces Network Switches in Cluster Supercomputers

July 15th, 2014 (0)

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that it has developed a technology that reduces the number of network switches used in a cluster supercomputer system comprised of several thousand units by 40% while maintaining the same level of network performance.Existing ...