Data Center Network
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Data Center Network Headlines
2/22/2012
A New Approach to Virtualization Optimizes the Data Center Network
There is currently a push toward fully dynamic data centers. Embarking on this journey comes with some issues, including adopting new technologies, which can be a pain for data center network administrators in a growing company. The headaches are well worth it, according to this Force10 Networks piece. A dynamic data center network creates a certain ease of management and better response than the traditional data center network.
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2/14/2012
Improving Energy Conservation in Your Data Center
You want to go green with your data center energy practices? That's great. Conservation is good. Green is good. But don't think you're doing it just for the benefit of Mother Nature; according to Kate Brew, Product Marketing Manager from Anue Systems, you're doing it for efficiency and good, hard ROI numbers.
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2/8/2012
10 Gigabit Ethernet to Command Half of $28 Billion Market by 2016
As 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches continue to decline in price and increase in popularity, one research firm predicts that by 2016, they'll come to dominate half of what's projected to be a $28 billion market.
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2/2/2012
Ethernet Switch Market to Reach $28 Billion by 2016
According to Datacenter Dynamics, industry analyst firm Dell'Oro Group is reporting that the Ethernet switch market should hit $28 billion by 2016, driven mainly by data center sales.
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2/1/2012
Rate of Virtualization of the Data Center Network Introducing New Challenges
Today's enterprises are starting to recognize the potential in virtualization and cloud-based data center environments. While this trend gains momentum, one expert is wondering if the rate will cause problems. According to this Network World report, the Enterprise Strategy Group's (ESG) recent survey found that enterprise organizations that are currently consolidating (about 63 percent) are eliminating from 25 to 50 percent of their data centers. Much of the consolidation will be into multi-tenant facilities.
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Data Center Network Industry News
2/23/2012 7:09:58 AM
TIO to Launch Cloud Based Wallet for North America's …
2/23/2012 7:07:25 AM
SwissQual Unveils New Mobile Network Benchmarking Platform at MWC 2012; …
2/23/2012 7:03:58 AM
Wizzard Updates Status of FAB Deal
2/23/2012 7:02:23 AM
Jewelry Television Partners with Beads of Courage
2/23/2012 7:02:18 AM
NII Holdings Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-end 2011 Results
Data Center Network Solutions
Welcome to the Data Center Network channel, sponsored by Dell Force10. Here you'll learn all about Dell Force10' innovative data center solutions, including its award-winning data center networking and high performance computing switching and routing products, which data center operators, service providers and enterprises rely on for mission critical operations. The company's data center products deliver unmatched port density and resiliency to help service providers and enterprises to deploy a high-availability, agile and standards-based GbE and 10 GbE network fabric, while reducing power and cooling costs. In addition to its focus on Force10's data center solutions, the Data Center Network channel will feature breaking news, features, case studies, white papers, videos and industry research reports focused on the vibrant and ever-expanding data center solutions market.
Data Center Network White Papers
Distributed Core Architecture Using the Z9000 Core Switching System
As data centers scale to support thousands of servers, IT managers are seeking better ways to network those servers while reducing costs and power consumption. Moreover, in large-scale data center cluster environments inter-node communication bandwidth is increasingly becoming the main bottleneck. For these environments, applications need to exchange information with remote nodes for execution of their local computation. For example, web search engines require parallel communication with every node in the cluster to provide the most relevant results, and web servers may require interaction with hundreds of sub-services running on remote nodes.Read the full white paper
Will Traffic Spikes Overwhelm Your Data Center Network?
One of the most significant data center technologies introduced over the last ten years is virtualization. Both server and storage virtualization are commonly found in today’s data centers, bringing more flexibility, greater efficiency and higher availability to IT computing environments. As we try to leverage server and storage virtualization, we need to look at how we deploy network virtualization judiciously so as to implement an optimized data center. As virtualization technology expands beyond the test and development environments where it started to production environments, IT managers are learning the impact of virtualization on the network. With most virtualized servers supporting between 2 and 10 applications, the network traffic profile is changing. Not only is network traffic increasing, but the potential for very large network traffic spikes has increased as well. With each of these virtualized servers, each rack now hosts between 160 and 400 application instances. IT managers must take this into consideration as they deploy more virtualized servers in their data centers.Read the full white paper
Network Automation with the Dell Force10 Open Automation Framework
It has been said that the shift to a virtual data center will be the most significant IT transformation since the invention of the mainframe. This transformation promises to join virtualized computing and storage layers to a virtualized network stack, while enabling new agile models such as cloud computing. At the same time, it is vital for the success of this technology that the transition to the virtual data center not bring back the proprietary restrictions and limitations that were the hallmark of the mainframe era.Read the full white paper
