Chuck Robbins to Succeed John Chambers as Cisco CEO

Chuck Robbins will succeed John Chambers as Cisco's Chief Executive Officer effective July 26, 2015, the end of the company's current fiscal year. Robbins was also elected to the Board of Directors of Cisco, effective May 1, 2015. John Chambers will assume the role of Executive Chairman on July 26, 2015, and will continue to serve as the Chairman of Cisco’s Board. Robbins joined Cisco in 1997 and most recently served as Cisco’s senior vice president...

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Ciena to Acquire Cyan for $335 Million

Ciena agreed to acquire Cyan for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $400 million (or approximately $335 million net of cash). Cyan, which is based in Petaluma, California, supplies its carrier-grade BluePlanet SDN/NFV software and Z-series packet-optical platform to carriers and large enterprises. Cyan's Blue Planet provides service orchestration, automation, SDN control, and multi-vendor management capabilities. The company claims over...

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Level 3 Launches SDN-based Adaptive Network via ExpressRoute to Microsoft Azure.

Level 3 Communications introduced SDN-based Adaptive Network Control Solutions via ExpressRoute to Microsoft Azure. The service is designed to help enterprises move applications and workloads from on-premises data centers to the cloud. Adaptive Network Control services include: Enhanced Management - provides visibility into and analytics of key network performance characteristics like latency and packet loss on an end-to-end, site-by-site basis Dynamic...

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Equinix to Offer Direct Access to Office 365 via Equinix Cloud Exchange

Equinix will begin offering private, managed connections to Microsoft Office 365 via Azure ExpressRoute through the Equinix Cloud Exchange. The service bypasses the public Internet, thereby providing lower latency and better security for enterprise customers accessing Office 365. Equinix expects to offer the service in 15 markets worldwide starting in Q3 of this year. Equinix first launched its partnership with Microsoft in April 2014, and today...

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Marvell's Weili Dai - “Smart Me” for Smart Life, Smart Lifestyle

Weili Dai, President and Co-founder of Marvell Semiconductor, highlights the company's 20th anniversary, including its on-going innovations in mobile, memory architecture and software. Marvell supplies a full-range of semiconductors for PC, mobiles, #IoT, consumer, etc.  The next decade will bring many more innovations, says Dai, including a breakthrough called Final Level Cache, which fundamentally changes memory architecture, bring super-computing...

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Verizon's 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report

Now in its 8th year, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report has expanded to include input from over 70 organizations, including top law enforcement agencies, says Bryan Sartin, Director of RISK Team at Verizon Enterprise. Here is a quick summary of findings: 96% of incidents follow only 9 patterns. The top 3 threats are POS attacks, cyber-espionage and crimeware. Upwards of 4 out of 5 intrusions involve the use of stolen or easily-guessable...

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Microsoft Intros Azure Data Lake

Microsoft introduced Azure Data Lake, an enterprise wide repository of every type of data collected in a single place prior to any formal definition of requirements or schema. Highlights: HDFS for the Cloud: The Azure Data Lake is a Hadoop File System compatible with HDFS enabling Microsoft offerings such as Azure HDInsight, Revolution-R Enterprise, industry Hadoop distributions like Hortonworks and Cloudera all to connect to it. Petabyte files,...

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EMC Intros "The Beast" - XtremIO 4.0 for All Flash Arrays

EMC unveiled XtremIO version 4.0, a non-disruptive free software upgrade to XtremIO v3.X all-flash arrays for enabling larger configurations, expanded on-demand capabilities and consolidated workloads. EMC said XtremIO 4.0 will transform data center applications with breakthrough in-memory copy services, enabling entire workflows to be streamlined and automated from the storage through the hypervisor and into the application. XtremIO 4.0 Highlights: Enhanced...

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EMC Advances Data "Protection Everywhere" Strategy

EMC announced major updates to its data protection portfolio, including solutions to provide data protection in the cloud, to the cloud and in the data center. The rollout includes a new purpose-built backup appliance, the Data Domain DD9500, with high-performance specs: 58.7 TB/hour performance, more than 1.5x faster performance than the nearest competitor, ensuring Data Domain can handle even the most demanding data protection requirements. 1,728...

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ARRIS Debuts Service Provider Wi-Fi Platform

ARRIS introduced a new Service Provider Wi-Fi solution for extending residential Wi-Fi services outside the home with a centrally managed, coordinated service. ARRIS's Service Provider Wi-Fi Systems Design and Integration combines key service components— Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA), policy enforcement, web portals, wireless access gateways, radio resource management, access point controllers, and access points—for delivering...

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