With Internet back-haul switches being asked to handle exponentially more traffic, most service provider and Internet back-haul networks are going to completely skip over the 40 GbE step and go straight to 100 GbE. Broadcom has introduced a new line of switch processors that can be reprogrammed to add new functionality to the switch and support new protocols as they come along.
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Broadcom Enables Programmable 100-GbE Switches
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Backing Up Cloud Apps
When I first heard that Backupify had developed a backup service for cloud applications like Facebook, I must admit I snickered a little at the thought of someone thinking that Facebook data was worth backing up to anyone but Facebook. When they called again and said they could now backup Google apps, they got my attention.
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Tackling The Big-Data Challenge (Part 2)
When discussing big data, it’s important to note that not all data is created on the fly; some data sets grow and expand over time and stay in the organizations for a long time. The first steps to managing big data are to focus on both the technical aspects as well as the business needs.
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FalconStor Offers More Tape Goodies
FalconStor Software’s Virtual Tape Library software upgrade provides more options in deduplication, improves performance, takes up less space by offering the ability to compress metadata, and supports features that make the product more attractive to users in the federal government vertical. Other features include improved scalability and performance with the Symantec Open Storage Technology platform that gives users access to years of data.
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NPA Honors Networking Industry Excellence
The Network Professional Association will honor the achievements of two of their peers at next month’s Interop event in Las Vegas. Professor Tadao Saito, CTO Toyota, is receiving the Best Networking Professional – Career Achievement Award for his lifetime work in a variety of areas related to digital communication and computer networks, and Ravikanth Chaganti is getting the Top of the Mark – Volunteer Award for his efforts in the Bangalore, India IT community.
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802.11ac ‘Gigabit Wi-Fi’: What You Need to Know
Your 802.11n wireless network and devices are about to become passé. Although the official 802.11ac specification won’t be finalized until sometime in 2013, wireless equipment will soon appear on store shelves sporting the faster wireless protocol.
It’s been almost five years since 802.11n wireless routers and devices became available–also well ahead of the specification actually getting ratified. Now, IEEE is finalizing the 802.11ac standard. 802.11ac is also referred to as “gigabit Wi-Fi” and will be capable of significantly faster data transfer speeds than the current 802.11n.
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Should You Worry About Google Drive Privacy?
The wording of the Google Drive terms of service has ruffled some feathers. However, the short answer to the question posed in the title of this article is “no”. Allow me to explain.
Google Drive finally unveiled its long-rumored cloud data storage service, Google Drive. The wording of the terms of services claims that Google reserves the right to “use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute” content uploaded to their services.
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Network the ‘Next Big Thing’ For Virtualization?
The concept of network virtualization seems to be gaining a lot of momentum across an industry that has virtualized most anything to do with IT. Can the same successes be applied to the networking market, transforming how systems communicate and revolutionizing infrastructure by abstracting the physical network from the demands of applications?
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VMware’s Lost Source Code: Not A Panic Situation
VMware lost some of their ESX source code. Queue the sky-is-falling claims. Don’t worry, there’s no need to panic.
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The Role of Storage in IBM’s New PureSystems
In the PureSystems launch, we saw the opening salvo in IBM’s use of expert integrated systems to reduce IT complexity and reduce costs. PureSystems strengthen an already strong bond between the company’s system ‘horse’, which does the CPU pulling, and the storage ‘carriage’, which carries the information payload.
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