Technologies around the Internet and the WAN have been around for some time. However, it wasn’t until very recently that a specific term began circulating which was supposed to emphasize the combination of these technologies. Cloud computing was born out of the idea of a distributed computing...
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New data center environments are being designed and built to support large amounts of users. Furthermore, these infrastructures are created to handle powerful workloads capable of distributing data and information all over the world. In architecting the modern data center platform, administrators...
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HP, Dell and IBM have all turned to public clouds based on OpenStack to remain relevant and position themselves to capitalize on enterprise hybrid strategies. In rolling out their own offerings, they're competing with Amazon and positioning themselves for a hybrid sale in which they sell gear and...
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Brocade (BRCD) has introduced its Fabric Vision technology, a storage area networking (SAN) hardware and software solution that simplifies SAN deployment and management, and provides improved visibility into the storage network.
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Yahoo's ultra-efficient "chicken coop" data center in upstate New York is getting bigger. The Internet company has announced plans to invest an additional $ 168 million in the campus for its hydro-powered, wind-cooled server farm.
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In news from the networking sector, Zayo Group announced a partnership with Internet2 to add substantial new capacity on Zayo’s fiber route from Chicago to Seattle. We've also got news from CenturyLink (CTL), Level 3 (LVLT) and Extreme Networks (EXTR).
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