Teren Bryson of packetqueue.net comments: With all of the recent talk in the networking community about software defined this or that, it can be hard to separate the marketing and spin from the substantial and substantive. Beyond...
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Western Digital Buys Virident To Battle Flash Giants
Howard Marks writing for Network Computing comments: HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital, acquired PCIe flash specialist Virident yesterday in a cash deal for $685 million. The move equips Western Digital/HGST to...
OpenFlow Fabric Controllers Are Light-years Away from Wireless Ones
Ivan Pepelnjak from ipSpace.net comments: When talking about OpenFlow and the whole idea of controller-based networking, people usually say “well, it’s nothing radically new, we’ve been using wireless controllers for years and...
Plexxi DSE: An Informal Analogy
Matt Oswalt from Keeping It Classless writes about NFD6 presenter Plexxi: Sitting in the NFD6 demo with Plexxi and got a great overview of the DSE product they’ve been working on. This service allows them to dynamically build...
AirTight Networks Cloud Management Console
Dale Rapp from DaleWifiSec writes: It’s been a month since I attended Wireless Field Day 5 and one of the most impressive demonstrations during the event was by AirTight Networks. Now that I have played with the AirTight AP...
Network Virtualization vs. Network Virtualization
Jason Edelman writes about NSX and network virtualization: VMware’s NSX officially launched just two weeks ago. Since the launch, the media has focused on the VMware and Cisco relationship and where that may end up in the...
Cisco enters the Storage market by acquiring WHIPTAIL
Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, EMCIE, NCDA, GEEK comments: By acquiring WHIPTAIL, and integrating into the Data Center Business Unity (DCBU) that makes UCS, Cisco can provide Systems, Storage and Networking from a...
What’s up, Big Switch? Talk to us.
Jason Edelman writes: Harry Quakenboss made an interesting comment on a previous post of mine a few days ago. He noted that Big Switch has been pretty quiet in terms of their outbound marketing. He is absolutely right and...
IT’s Not Just About Technology
Paul Stewart writing for The Tech Interview comments: There’s a lot of great blogs and resources that get really deep into specific areas of tech. While it may sound really strange, this site is decidedly not one of them. The...
Official IT Vs. Shadow IT (desperately looking for private clouds)
Enrico Signoretti of Juku comments: This morning I watched a presentation from EMC about new (VNX, ViPR) and future products (Project Nile). The presentation was quite interesting, especially the part about the VNX Lotus F1...