Almost every organization with multiple sites has implemented a WAN environment with dedicated symmetric links between the sites. This is either in the form of an MPLS infrastructure or direct symmetric links between sites. To balance the cost of the symmetric link with your WAN budget, you often having to apply QoS (Quality of Service) to your network traffic and having to schedule data transfers in between sites for “quiet periods” so that you don’t run the risk of degrading...
Read MoreDataDirect Networks (DDN) is enabling organizations dealing with web-scale and Big Data challenges to make huge strides towards storing, accessing, searching and managing any amount of data at any scale with the newest release of the company’s distributed object-based storage technology, Web Object Scaler (WOS®) 3.0 and new WOS7000 object storage appliance.
Read MoreWith the industry’s largest Ethernet fabric install base of more than 1,400 customers worldwide and 400,000 Brocade® VDX® switch ports shipped to date, Brocade has announced a number of significant advancements to its VCS® Fabric technology and Brocade VDX switch portfolio, including new VCS fabric capabilities that provide native multitenancy, storage-aware networking and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance for the most demanding data center environments. Brocade has also...
Read MoreThe Brocade® Vyatta® 5600 vRouter is the latest addition to the company’s NFV product portfolio and brings with it an impressive performance boost. As the first virtual router for telco-class networks, the Brocade Vyatta 5600 is up to 40 times faster than competitive virtual routing products. The latest network-centric x86 servers deliver outstanding packet processing capabilities and are increasingly populated with 10 GbE Network Interface Cards (NICs) to accommodate data...
Read MoreFearns Community Sports College has deployed Xirrus Access Points (APs) to deliver a school-wide Wi-Fi network for its 600 pupils and 85 staff. The new Wi-Fi network is based on Xirrus' XR-520 Wireless APs, and has enabled the Lancashire college to provide flexible learning for its students, with pupils able to access documents and learning resources at any time and any place across the college campus.
Read MoreSabio interviews reveal organisations still struggling to find the right balance between ensuring effective compliance and delivering a positive customer experience.
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