Network Management Strategies for the CIO
Editors' Picks
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Network Innovation Award: Brocade VCS Fabric
Brocade wins the SearchNetworking Network Innovation Award for its VCS data center network fabric technology.30 Nov 2012
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FCoE for converged networking? Not quite, Brocade veep says
Brocade, a storage veteran and data center LAN innovator, has the tools to make end-to-end FCoE work, but that's not what customers want, one VP says.30 Nov 2012
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IBM adds solid-state hard drive maker to arsenal, beefs up PureSystems
IBM's recent acquisition of solid-state hard drive manufacturer TMS will add to its converged infrastructure portfolio. Will others follow suit?20 Aug 2012
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Cisco announces 83 Tbps Nexus 7700 and Dynamic Fabric Automation
The new Nexus 7700 is the most powerful data center switch on the market, and Dynamic Fabric Automation simplifies Nexus-based network fabrics.27 Jun 2013
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Dell Active Fabric: Converged fabric that's easy to deploy and manage
With Active Fabric, Dell delivers a converged fabric for data centers where server and storage admins call the shots.24 Apr 2013
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Gartner’s fabric computing insights
According to Gartner, fabric computing has evolved over the past two years, and is here to stay. Read further for fabric computing implementation insights.13 Jun 2012
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Leaked: Insieme Networks is building massive fabric controller
A source says Cisco spin-in Insieme Networks is building a fabric controller for massive leaf-spine architecture, application-defined networking.19 Feb 2013
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network fabric
Network fabric is an industry term that describes a network topology in which devices pass data to each other through interconnecting switches.12 Mar 2013
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Network Innovation Award: Brocade VCS Fabric
Brocade wins the SearchNetworking Network Innovation Award for its VCS data center network fabric technology.30 Nov 2012
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Data center fabric wars
Check out the August edition of the Network Evolution E-Zine to read about the battle of network fabric vs. software-defined networking (SDN), and learn whether these technologies are competitive o...01 Aug 2012
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Facebook talks about Open Compute's open source switch project
Facebook execs Frank Frankovsky and Najam Ahmad discuss why Open Compute is designing a switch that's open source.28 May 2013
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Data center network fabrics vs. software – defined fabrics
Are data center fabrics and software defined networks competitive or complementary technologies?01 Aug 2012
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2013 networking industry outlook: Network fabrics can't kill spanning tree
Network fabrics won't kill spanning tree in 2013, says 451 Research's Eric Hanselman. Enterprises will look at Ethernet exchanges and MEMS switches.14 Jan 2013
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Cisco refreshes campus switching, including Catalyst 6800 core chassis
Cisco updated its campus switching and enterprise routing products, starting with the Catalyst 6800 campus core chassis and a high-end ISR.25 Jun 2013
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Facebook to release data center switch spec for Open Compute Project
Facebook announced at Interop that its Open Compute Project will expand its scope to include open designs for top-of-rack data center switches.09 May 2013
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The network is key as cloud drives converged infrastructure solutions
The cloud drives true converged infrastructure solutions for network, storage and compute resources, but virtualization and the network make it work.17 Jul 2013
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Nexus 7700 beginning to make me feel old
Advent of new hardware such as Cisco's massive Nexus 7700 reflects natural growth of applications and network demands.06 Aug 2013
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Pros, cons of premises- vs. provider-based network management systems
IT expert David Davis outlines the pros and cons of premises- versus provider-based network management.12 Aug 2013
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New Brocade VDX chassis adds scale to data center fabric
With a new Brocade VDX chassis, enterprises can build larger Layer 2 data center fabrics with the company's TRILL-based Virtual Cluster Switching.13 Sep 2012
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The new virtualization engineer: Breaking down siloes in your skills
As siloes break down in the IT organization, there is demand for a new job role—the virtualization engineer, who manages across converged resources.01 Aug 2013