Sales of 10 gigabit per second (Gbps) Ethernet Switches are expected to reach $ 13 billion by 2016 and will constitute nearly half of a total $ 28 billion Ethernet Switch market by then, a forecast from the research firm Dell’Oro Group states. And even as data center operators upgrade from 1 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Switches to 10GbE in order to handle exponentially larger volumes of network data traffic, sales of even faster 40GbE and 100GbE switches will also be picking up as well.
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Forecast: 10GbE To Be The Top-Selling Ethernet Switch By 2016
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Enterasys Addresses Wired-Wireless Pain
Network equipment vendor Enterasys is tackling the growing problem of managing wired and wireless devices with the latest addition to its suite of fabric network management technology, the OneFabric Edge Architecture. The combined wired-wireless management fabric relieves a number of network management headaches, especially in situations where the wired network is often managed by one vendor and the wireless network by another, says the company.
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Research Finds Outstanding Issues Could Derail Win 8 Migration
Migration to Windows 8 won’t be a shoo-in, with a number of issues remaining to be addressed before Microsoft can expect the majority of its users to migrate to the new version of the operating system. A new survey from Information Week Analytics, “Research: Windows 8″, finds that the migration strategy appears to be predicated upon people migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 8, when it has already been clear that a significant minority of existing users are still running Windows XP – which demonstrates the sort of problem that Microsoft is facing. The new OS is scheduled to come out in beta in February and for final shipment in the second half of the year.
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Intel Makes Exascale-Bet on InfinBand-Based Supercomputing
Intel, which played a key role in the creation of the InfiniBand high-speed networking standard a decade ago, has come full circle and bought the IB assets of Qlogic, one of the two remaining companies still actively pushing this technology. While $ 125 million is chump change for a company that netted $ 3.4 billion in profits last quarter, Intel says the acquisition will enhance its networking portfolio and provide scalable high-performance computing (HPC) fabric technology as well as support the company’s vision of innovating on fabric architectures to achieve ExaFLOP/s performance by 2018. At a hundred times faster than today’s fastest supercomputers, it’s an aggressive move, seeking to accelerate performance to a quintillion computer operations per second.
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Sourcefire Uses Big Data Analytics To Stop Malware
Cyber security vendor Sourcefire’s latest product uses big data analytics methods to search data to discover patterns in malware attacks and intervene to stop them. The release of FireAMP comes the same week that Cisco Systems released its 4Q11 Global Threat Report that details how pervasive the malware threat is to networks. Cisco reports that in the fourth quarter, enterprise users experienced an average of 339 web malware encounters per month and for all of 2011, the average was 362 per month. Cisco also reports that 20,141 unique web malware hosts were encountered per month in 2011, up from 14,217 in 2010.
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Alas Poor Virtensys, I Knew Virtual I/O Horatio
I must admit I was one of those folks that were intrigued by the idea of I/O virtualization. I led sessions at conferences exploring the various ways one could connect their servers and peripherals to each other. The very idea that I could share expensive resources like RAID controllers and network connections from a shared pool seemed like a path to the flexibility I always wanted. Apparently most of you disagreed as at least one I/O virtualization pioneer, Virtensys, bit the dust this week.
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Will Ultrabooks Slow the Tablet Revolution?
A new report from analyst firm Juniper Research forecasts that shipments of ultrabooks will grow three times the rate of tablets over the next five years. The initial reception and anticipation of the cadre of ultrabooks announced at CES is impressive, but if we look closer at the stats the tablet really isn’t in any danger of being relegated to irrelevance by the new class of laptops any time soon.
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Rise Of HTML5 Brings With It Security Risks
HTML5 is the new “it” protocol on the Internet. Among other things, it is an alternative to Adobe’s Flash for displaying content through a Web browser. No less an industry authority than the late Steve Jobs declared in 2010 that browsers on Apple devices such as the iPad would support HTML5 and not Flash. But as HTML5 gains wider adoption some of its security flaws are beginning to get noticed, including the WebSocket specification that renders Web pages more quickly than does Flash.
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IBM And NEC Leverage OpenFlow For High-Performance Networking
IBM and NEC are collaborating on high-performance OpenFlow deployments. OpenFlow, developed at Stanford University, has enjoyed acceptance in university networks because an OpenFlow network can run alongside the campus production network without impacting it. In 2011, OpenFlow broke out of its education niche into the mainstream with announcements from Big Switch, Fulcrum and NEC. IBM’s and NEC’s announcement is a proof point that OpenFlow has a role in enterprise IT and can be used in high-performance applications.
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F5 Networks ‘Fixes’ Data Center Security
Arguing that multiple point appliances intended to secure a network only add to complexity without providing the intended protection, F5 Networks is introducing what it calls a Data Center Firewall to combine multiple security solutions into one appliance. The appliance, called BIG-IP model 11050 and carrying a starting price of $ 129,995, delivers such security features as dynamic threat defense, DDoS protection, protocol security, SSL termination and a network firewall.
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