Cisco UCS, Nexus 1000 virtual switches power VMworld labs but suffer glitches A year after introducing the Nexus 1000 virtual switch, Cisco is using that switch and its unified computing system servers as a proving point at VMworld in San Francisco. However, the setup performed so poorly in its first two days that many users were left unable to access the labs, they said. A Cisco-based implementation that taps into both EMC and NetApp SANs is powering the show's lab sessions. Qwest upgrading backbone to 100Gbps Qwest has started upgrading its Ethernet backbone to 100Gbps, a project that the company says it will work on all throughout 2010 Ethernet switch market rebounding for Cisco, others The worldwide Ethernet switch market is down 24% in the second quarter but rose 5% between Q1 and Q2 to $3.4 billion, according to Infonetics Research. Cisco, EMC in joint venture? Cisco and EMC won't confirm it of course, but there are numerous rumors and reports that the two are about to launch a jointly-funded joint venture under the code-name "Alpine." The joint venture is said to be a separate company chartered to integrate, sell and install new data center compute, networking, storage and virtualization products to enterprises and service providers. Enterprises Want WAN Optimization to Work Across Companies Back in June we predicted that WAN optimization customers will want to extend their acceleration solutions across company boundaries. We just tested our hypothesis with a survey, and validated that enterprises do indeed want their WAN optimization solution to work with those of their business partners and customers. Military set to lay out $42M to develop advanced network prioritization, security technology BBN, which was bought by defense giant Raytheon today, got almost $11 million to help build self-configuring network technology that would identify traffic, let the network infrastructure prioritize it down to the end user, reallocate bandwidth between users or classes of users, and automatically make quality of service decisions. Life beyond 10G Ethernet The Ethernet Alliance has extended an open invite to those interested in attending its all-day Technology Exploration Forum on 40G and 100G Ethernet taking place in Santa Clara on Sept. 15. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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