Open Server Summit: Open Compute Hardware - Facebook Future Directions

Facebook has been able to quantify energy efficiency gains of 38% for new servers conforming to the specs of The Open Compute Project, said Matt Corddry, Director of Hardware Engineering at Facebook, speaking at the Open Server Summit in Santa Clara, California.  Moreover, the new servers deliver a 24% cost savings compared to generic OEM servers. The Open Compute Project, which Facebook launched in April 2011, has resulted in vastly simplified...

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IBM Licenses New ARM for Custom Networking Chips

IBM has licensed a broad range of ARM Cortex processors for use in custom networking and communications applications.  IBM's clients include leading companies that build network routers, switches and the cellular base stations. The ARM Cortex-A15, Cortex-A12, Cortex-A7 and Cortex-M4 processors, as well as the ARM Mali-450 Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), are included in the new license agreement. "IBM is a top provider of custom-built, system-on-a-chip...

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Ericsson's Q3: LTE Rollouts in U.S. Hit Peak as Europe and China Look for Growth

Ericsson reported Q3 2013 sales of SEK 53.0 billion, down -3% YoY, but up 3% YoY for comparable units and adjusted for foreign exchange.  Operating income, including joint ventures was SEK 4.2 (3.1) billion with an operating margin of 8.0% (5.7%). Net income was SEK 3.0 (2.2) billion. "We are currently seeing sales coming under some pressure. In addition to FX, the major drivers for this development are the two large mobile broadband coverage...

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Tail-f Delivers OpenStack Functionality for Multi-Vendor Networks

Tail-f Systems announced its NCS plugin for the Havanna release of OpenStack.  This helps organizations to automatically provision a multi-vendor network in response to OpenStack Cloud Network configuration changes. While current OpenStack plugins are constrained to single-vendors, Tail-f said its NCS plugin allows OpenStack networking to simultaneously utilize the variety of layer 2 networking technologies found in complex real-world data...

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Wind River Enhances its Virtualization Software for NFV

Wind River released a new version of its open source, real-time, multi-core-enabled kernel virtualization software with numerous performance and live migration enhancements. Wind River said its Open Virtualization optimizes open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology to allow the deployment of network services on virtual machines without performance loss. The software delivers near-native hardware performance speeds, whereas standard...

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Ixia's CEO Resigns over Misstated Credentials

Vic Alston has resigned as President and CEO of Ixia and as a member of its board of directors. Ixia said its audit committee discovered that although Alston had attended Stanford University, he had misstated his academic credentials, incorrectly claiming to have received a B.S. and a M.S. in Computer Science, and had misstated his age and early employment history. The board has appointed Errol Ginsberg, Ixia’s chairman of the board, founder...

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