AT&T Extends its Switched Ethernet with Network on Demand

AT&T's Switched Ethernet Network on Demand service is now available in more than 100 U.S. cities. The service offers a customer portal that lets business customers order more ports, instantly add or change services, scale bandwidth to meet their changing needs and manage their network in near real time. "Businesses want fast, versatile network service tailored to their needs," said Josh Goodell, vice president, Network on Demand. "The rapid...

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Cisco Offers Threat Grid via Cloud or On-prem Appliance

Cisco announced a number of new network security capabilities and services, including a new AMP Threat Grid in the Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) portfolio: AMP Threat Grid provides dynamic malware analytics and threat intelligence.  These advanced capabilities are provided as a standalone cloud service or via new UCS based on premise appliances.  AMP Threat Grid analytics engines provide security teams with breach detection against...

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Blueprint: Converged Infrastructure in the Age of Cloud

by Scott Geng, CTO of Egenera The past decade has been a time of serious change in the technology industry with the advent of virtualization and cloud computing. Virtualization, by itself, has been a significant agent for change in every IT data center around the world. It’s driven a massive push for server consolidation that has made IT more efficient with their compute resources by dramatically driving up utilization rates and fundamentally...

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Egenera Launches Wholesale, Multi-Cloud Leveraging AWS and Equinix

Egenera launched a wholesale, multi-cloud management platform that enables managed service providers and VARs to offer hybrid cloud services while leveraging the resources of Amazon Web Services and the Equinix Cloud Exchange. Egenera said its Xterity platform enables its resale partners to quickly enter the cloud services market with their own branded service without up-front capital costs or ongoing management costs, and with the margins needed...

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Brocade Fills Out its Campus Switching Portfolio

Brocade introduced a new campus LAN switch boasting the industry's highest 10 GbE port density for any switch in its class.  The Brocade ICX 7250 delivers 50 percent greater stacking density than comparable switches, consolidating up to 576 1 GbE ports into a virtual chassis and single management touchpoint. Brocade also unveiled Switch Port Extender, a new "HyperEdge" Architecture technology to simplify network deployment and ongoing maintenance....

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IIX Secures $20 Million, Acquires IX Reach

IIX, a software-defined interconnection company based in Santa Clara, California, announced $20 million in funding from TriplePoint Capital.  The company’s SDI platform enables programmable interconnection between networks that allow customers to gain more control, improve security, reduce costs associated with IP transit delivery, optimize network performance and extend network reach across the globe. IIX also announced its acquisition of...

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