Blueprint: Tips for Avoiding a Data Center Blizzard

by Jeff Klaus, General Manager of DCM Solutions, Intel We're in the depth of winter and, yes, the snow can be delightful… until you have to move your car or walk a half block on icy streets. Inside the datacenter, the IT Wonderland might lack snowflakes but everyday activities are even more challenging year round. Instead of snowdrifts and ice, tech teams are faced with mountains of data. So what are the datacenter equivalents of snowplows, shovels,...

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AT&T Repositions as Revenue Stream to Shift

AT&T expects a significant shift in its revenue stream from consumer mobile to business services, TV, broadband and international projects. In its quarterly earnings report, AT&T said its recent acquisitions in Mexico and its pending acquisition of DIRECTV will diversify the company and expand its range. “Over the last year, we’ve made several moves to significantly transform our business for the future” said Randall Stephenson, AT&T...

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Google Fiber Expands to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Raleigh

Google announced plans to bring its fiber access service to 18 cities in the south-eastern U.S. across four new metro areas: Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham. The company said its next steps will be to to work with these cities to create a detailed map for deploying thousands of miles of fiber, using existing infrastructure such as utility poles and underground conduit. Google Fiber is currently live in Kansas City, Provo and Austin....

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Ericsson's Fourth Quarter Sales Decline 2% YoY

Ericsson reported 4Q 2014 sales of SEK 68.0 (67.0) b., a growth of 1% YoY and 18% QoQ, but down 2% YoY when adjusted for currency exchanges. The sales growth YoY was mainly driven by the Middle East, Europe and Asia, offset by sales decline in North America. Operating income in the fourth quarter improved YoY, primarily driven by higher software sales and efficiency enhancements. Some highlights from the company's quarterly report: Mobile broadband...

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F5 Tunes its BIG-IQ for Agile App Delivery and Cisco APIC

The newest version of F5 Networks' BIG-IQ intelligent management framework promises deeper collaboration between the network operations center and DevOps teams by centrally managing application delivery and by employing role-based access control (RBAC). BIG-IQ offers both an innovative UI and RESTful APIs to centrally manage F5 BIG-IP devices and to control F5’s Local Traffic Manager, Advanced Firewall Manager, and Application Security Manager solutions....

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Overture Adds Carrier Ethernet VNF and Service Intelligence

Overture Networks introduced its Ensemble Carrier Ethernet (ECE) Virtual Network Function (VNF) -- the first such hardware-agnostic Carrier Ethernet VNF, delivering the same Carrier Ethernet 2.0 functionality of a physical Ethernet Access Device without being tied to proprietary, purpose built hardware. Overture said its ECE VNF software can run on any Intel-based server. For hardened environments, the Overture 65vSE can host the ECE and multiple...

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Crehan: Multiple Technologies Drive Stronger Server Networking Upgrade Cycle

The availability of multiple new data-center Ethernet speeds will lead to a much stronger server networking upgrade cycle than seen over the past decade, according to a new Server-Class Adapter & LAN-on-Motherboard (LOM) Long-Range Forecast Report from Crehan Research. The firm expects that the impending arrival of 25 gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 50GbE and 100GbE products, in combination with existing 10GbE and 40GbE products, will result in more...

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Dell'Oro: Cloud Data Centers to Comprise Almost 50% of Server Unit Shipments by 2018

Cloud data centers are expected to comprise almost 50 percent of server unit shipments by 2018, according to a new report by Dell'Oro Group. Server unit shipments are expected to continue to grow, albeit at a low single digit CAGR for the 2014-2019 period. “The increase in the number of connected devices as well as the number of workloads processed by data centers will continue to drive demand for physical servers, although virtualization trends...

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Juniper Reports Q4 Revenue of $1.1 Billion, Lower Overhead

Juniper Networks reported Q4 2014 net revenues of $1,102 million, down 14% year-over-year and down 2% sequentially (normalized for Junos Pulse sale: decrease of 11% year-over-year and a sequential increase of 1%). During the quarter, the Company recorded an estimated $850 million non-cash goodwill impairment charge related to its security reporting unit. As a result, the company recorded a GAAP net loss of $769.6 million. Excluding this impairment...

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TM Forum Appoints Peter Sany as CEO

TM Forum has appointed Peter Sany as its new president and CEO, succeeding Bill Ahlstrom, who served as interim president and CEO since November 2013. Sany currently serves on TM Forum’s Board of Directors.  He previously was Chief Information Technology Officer at Swiss Life, Group CIO at Deutsche Telekom, Corporate CIO at pharmaceuticals company Novartis and a senior global executive at IBM. Peter has also served on a number of non-executive...

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Artesyn Intros 2-Slot 40G ATCA Platform

Artesyn Embedded Technologies introduced its Centellis 2100, a two-slot 40G AdvancedTCA (ATCA) system platform designed to support the latest high performance payload blades. The unit offers power and cooling support for up to 400 W per slot and up to 500 W in a single slot configuration.  It is designed for data intensive, central office and enterprise networking applications such as distributed networking functions, IMS/IPTV subsystems,...

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