Data Networking
Riverbed plunks ESXi hypervisor in Steelhead WAN optimizers
Gooses performance with flash, optimizes virty desktops
HP previews OpenFlow virty network controller
Tie those applications to the network with flexible pipes
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A10 seduces app load balancing biz spurned by Cisco
Will networking giant bite back with an acquisition?
Sun men bump bellies in Cisco v Arista freaky trade battle
'You call that a low-latency switch, buddy?'
Arista touts next-gen switch as malleable as a T-1000 Terminator
Plunder me x86, programmable pipeline, and OpenFlow booty
Indian gov ponders restrictions on Chinese networking gear
Lovely and cheap, but possibly communist and traitorous
'Intel made more virty cash than VMware'
VMworld 2012 And that's why Cisco won't fear Nicira, says VMware's top cloud man
Networking industry to collaborate on TERABIT Ethernet
Network traffic projected to increase tenfold by 2015
Opinion
How to be a Puppet master: Make Amazon, VMware dance for YOU
Sysadmin blog Puppet, if you haven't heard of it, is automation software that takes on a role similar to Active Directory's group policy. Puppet can also handle application deployment, image deployment and anything else you can imagine that you would typically manage with scripts.
Cisco hits the roof in Olympics marketing dash
Cisco has thrown open its Olympics hospitality suite, giving partners and customers both a panoramic view of the Olympic Park and an up-close, 3D view of Stephen Fry loitering on a London Underground platform.
News
Make life easier on campus with a simpler LAN
Three layers into one will go
eBay fires up OpenStack cloud with Nicira network virt
Sitting next to a nervous VMware vCloud
Huawei looking into critical router flaw claims
Telecoms kit maker defends its incident response system
Speaking in Tech: VMware is building the Death Star
Podcast The Empire strikes back
Juniper disappointed by skittish service providers
Gets in bed with Riverbed for optimization
Yes, yes, the Olympics are near. But what'll happen to its IT afterwards?
2,200 switches, data-centre-sized halls up for grabs
Australian company claims world’s fastest switch
Traders the target, but 130ns latency has storage industry sniffing around
Cisco predicts 1.3 zettabytes of annual data movements
Cisco has emitted its latest Visual Networking Index, a global study of how much data passes through the world's wires.
Boffins smash 3Gbps speed barrier with 542GHz T-Rays
Japanese geniuses have maintained a 3Gbit/s radio link at 542GHz, opening up more of the electromagnetic spectrum to the voracious appetite of wireless data.
Speaking in Tech: The worst government IT deal of ALL TIME
Podcast It's the eighth episode of our enterprise tech podcast – and it's a special one. The podcast is split up into two parts: in the first part, your hosts interview a journalist investigating the State of West Virginia's absurd purchase of drastically oversized Cisco routers – it's an incredible story you have to hear to believe.
Spotlight
Sysadmin blog Deployment tool jumps onto the cloud train
Storage bods, your time is up
Not just 3D, but Fry-D™
Flatten the structure to stay nimble
Terabit speeds are round the corner
Always just over the horizon
End-to-end services for virtual machines
Expert Clinic Combining fabric infrastructure, operational nous, and service delivery models
Exclusive Our sources don't cry over spilt beans
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