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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.

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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.

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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.

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Data Center Network Featured Articles


5/16/2012

Data Center Networks Must Adapt to Cloud Computing


Like the skies over Seattle, it seems the technology world is full of clouds. Cloud computing, cloud storage, cloud communications. You can't sit down and read about the world of technology and communications without encountering more clouds than you'd find in a fourth grade science fair. But what impact does the growth of all things cloud have for data center networks?
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5/14/2012

HP 12500 Data Center Network Switch Updates Coming in 2013


There was lots of exciting news that came out of Interop last week, much of it in the data center network space. One company that had a few announcements to make in this space was HP, which answered some burning questions about its line of data center chassis switches and its software-defined networking strategy.
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5/8/2012

Is Ethernet Good for the Data Center Network?


When Ethernet made its debut in the 80s, it could easily have been assumed this technology would soon be outdone by something bigger and better. And, while next generation technologies continue to evolve, Ethernet is still the standard for Local Area Networks (LAN) and is now findings its place of support for the data center network.
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5/7/2012

Make Your Data Center Network Extreme


There is always an art in choosing a company name. Sometimes you want to have a straightforward name, which explains what your company does. Other times, you want a name that sounds powerful, like Force 10 Networks, which conjures up images of a powerful force and a perfect 10. Other times, companies want to harness a pop culture buzzword that also encapsulates its attitude toward the market. That, perhaps, is the origin of the company called Extreme Networks, which has come out with a new series of switches designed to make your data center network, well, extreme.
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5/4/2012

Dell's Force 10 Simplifies the Data Center Network with VNA Expansion


Since Dell acquired Force 10 in July 2011, the tech company has been focusing on its data center network portfolio, and it recently announced hardware and software additions to its Virtual Network Architecture (VNA) offerings.
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