Video: Achieving 400GbE

Many techniques were employed to achieve the remarkable speed of 400 GbE, says John D'Ambrosia, Chairperson of the Ethernet Alliance.  These vectors include moving faster, increasing the number of physical paths, adding wavelengths across single-mode fiber, and boosting the modulation with PAM4. YouTube: https://youtu.be/5QLbDXNGfJk  ...

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IBM and SAP Seek to Integrate Cognitive + Cloud

IBM and SAP are looking to deepen their partnership by developing cognitive extensions enabled with SAP HANA software. Specifically, the companies intend to co-locate resources in Walldorf, Germany and Palo Alto, California with the aim of sparking new solutions. "The future of business strategy and business value will proceed from the foundational elements of this announcement -- cognitive, cloud and the design of consumer-quality experiences...

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AWS Adds Security Inspector Tool

Amazon Web Services released an automated security assessment service that helps customers improve the security and compliance of their applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) by identifying potential security issues, vulnerabilities, or deviations from security standards. Amazon Inspector deploys on-host agents so customers get insight from inside Amazon EC2 instances and other AWS resources that make up an application...

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Intel Restructuring Looks to Data Center and IoT for Growth

Intel will cut up to 12,000 jobs globally - approximately 11% of its workforce - as it aims "to accelerate its evolution from a PC company to one that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices." Intel said it sdata center and Internet of Things (IoT) businesses are the primary growth engines now, with memory and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) accelerating these opportunities. These growth businesses delivered $2.2...

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Transition Networks Debuts 40Gbps QSFP+

Transition Networks introduced its new 40G quad small form factor pluggable (QSFP+) optical transceivers designed for high growth 40G Ethernet networks. The new TN-QSFP-40G-xx transceivers can be installed in any QSFP+ port, allowing for 40GBase-X interfaces to the network through the QSFP+ connector. The transceivers are built for bi-directional serial-optical data communication such as 40G Ethernet. The TN-QSFP-40G-xx series features 4 channels...

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Intel Posts Q1 Revenue of $13.7 Billion, up 7%

Intel reported first-quarter GAAP revenue of$13.7 billion, operating income of $2.6 billion, net income of $2.0 billion and EPS of 42 cents. The company generated approximately $4.0 billion in cash from operations, paid dividends of $1.2 billion, and used $793 million to repurchase 27 million shares of stock. “Our first-quarter results tell the story of Intel’s ongoing strategic transformation, which is progressing well and will accelerate in 2016,”...

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Threat Stack Secures $15.3 Million for Cloud Security

Threat Stack, a start-up based in Boston, announced $15.3 million in Series B funding for its cloud security and compliance management solutions. Threat Stack recently launched its Cloud Security Platform (CSP) in early 2016. The cloud-native platform supports security insight across all environments, cloud security providers and containers. The funding round was led by Scale Venture Partners (Scale), with participation from all existing investors,...

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Delphix Names Chris Cook as CEO

Delphix, a start-up offering a data virtualization software engine that installs as a virtual machine on any supported hypervisor , appointed Chris Cook as president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. Founding CEO Jedidiah Yueh will transition to executive chairman and focus on continued innovation in the Delphix platform, strategy, vision, and key customer and partner relationships. Most recently, Cook served...

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Huawei Marine Carries Unrepeatered 100G for 627km

Huawei Marine has demonstrated a 100G ultra-long unrepeatered system achieving a record transmission distance of up to 627km in a laboratory test in Beijing. The system makes use of Huawei’s advanced 100G technology, Enhanced Raman Amplifier and ROPA (remote optical pump amplifier) technology. Huawei’s 100G transmission combines Combining PDM BPSK modulation, ODSP and third-generation soft decision technology. Ultra-long unrepeatered systems...

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