Blueprint: Hyper-Converged is Leading the Data Center Revolution

by Sachin Chheda, Senior Director, Product and Technical Marketing, Nutanix Historically, provisioning and managing infrastructure in a data center has never been straightforward.  There is the need to organize the purchase of the servers; the acquisition of the storage, the choice of the network supplier - and all that before the choice of the software. All that is changing: the notion that there’s a need to acquire an array of different...

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Cisco Expands its Intercloud Ecosystem

Cisco announced major milestones and next steps for its Intercloud initiative -- a globally connected network of clouds -- saying that it now has 65 partners running Intercloud Fabric in over 350 data centers.  The aim of Cisco Intercloud is to reduce complexity out of hybrid clouds. Some Intercloud highlights: Recent enhancements to Cisco Intercloud are focused in the areas of security, control, and expanded hypervisor support, including...

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Nutanix Builds New Capabilities for its Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Nutanix unveiled two new product families for hyperconverged data centers -- Nutanix Acropolis and Nutanix Prism -- both aimed at simplifying and scaling infrastructure while enhancing IT service delivery. Nutanix Acropolis, which builds on the core capabilities of the company’s flagship hyperconverged product, is an open platform for virtualization and application mobility. Nutanix is supporting a choice in application platform, including traditional...

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Dell’Oro: Data Center Switching Growth Driven by Big Clouds

The Ethernet Switch – Data Center market grew strongly in the first quarter 2015 to slightly more than $2.0 billion, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group, thanks to spending from big cloud operators such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. The Quarterly Ethernet Switch – Data Center Report also indicates that Cloud Customers will begin migrating to 25 and 100 GE at the end of 2015. “Strong adoption of 40 GE amongst large...

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IHS: Data Center and Enterprise SDN Markets to See Strong Growth

The software-defined networking (SDN) market (Ethernet switches and controllers) will reach $13 billion in 2019, up from $781 million in 2014, as the availability of branded bare metal switches and use of SDN by enterprises and smaller cloud service providers (CSPs) drive growth, according to a newly published IHS Infonetics' biannual Data Center and Enterprise SDN Hardware and Software report. Some highlights: SDN still spells opportunity for...

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IHS: Microwave Equipment Sales Decline in Q1

The global microwave equipment market totaled $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), a 9 percent sequential decline as operators continued to be cautious with spending, according to the IHS Infonetics Microwave Equipment report. Some Highlights: Microwave equipment revenue has been trending downward for the last few years due to pricing pressure and competition from fiber-based backhaul solutions Backhaul comprised 85 percent of microwave...

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Samsung and Telefónica Collaborate on IoT

Samsung Electronics Iberia and Telefónica I+D have formed a collaborative partnership focused on IoT. The companies are working to integrate Telefónica Thinking Things ecosystem with the advanced capabilities of Samsung’s devices.  Two prototypes are already under development. The first one integrates Telefonica’s Thinking Things Modular solution with the capabilities of Samsung’s devices and sensor technology in order to identify new products...

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