Networking World: Network heavy hitters to pool SDN efforts in OpenDaylight project

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Network heavy hitters to pool SDN efforts in OpenDaylight project

WD releases first 12Gbps SAS SSDs | XP migration easy pickings over, say experts

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Network heavy hitters to pool SDN efforts in OpenDaylight project
Software-defined networking, a set of technologies to help networks better adapt to user needs with less manual effort, may at last be getting the common foundation it has needed for interoperability and efficient development. Read More

RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Mellanox Technologies

Join The Mellanox "Generation of Open Ethernet" Initiative
The current landscape of proprietary Ethernet switches limits the foundation of compute and storage clouds and Web 2.0 infrastructures. The "Generation of Open Ethernet" initiative is an alternative approach to traditional closed-code Ethernet switches, which provides customers with full flexibility and freedom to custom-design their data center. Cloud computing and Web 2.0 IT managers must control their data center network to achieve higher levels of utilization and scalability. Mellanox is leading the "Generation of Open Ethernet" to enable this next era of open data centers. Join us!

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RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: HP

An investment worth making
HP BladeSystem pays you back in just over 7 months.* The data center used to be a cost center. Not anymore. HP ProLiant Gen8 server blades solve the problem of costs and complexity with built-in intelligence, integrated efficiencies, and ultrahigh availability— all in a blade that delivers TCO that gets better and better every day. Read IDC's ROI analysis

WD releases first 12Gbps SAS SSDs
WD subsidiary HGST today released the world's first 12Gbps SAS and Fibre Channel SSD line, which sport top speeds of 1,200MB/s. Read More

XP migration easy pickings over, say experts
The easy upgrades to Windows XP have already been done, migration experts said, predicting that a large number of enterprises will still be running the aged OS a year from now. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors

Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization
In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now!

Intel Atom chips poised for power, performance boost with Avoton
After years of incremental improvements, Atom chips are poised for a big jump in performance and power efficiency with a new generation of low-processors that have shipped to server makers for testing. Read More

INSIDER

So you want to be a data scientist?
After months of high unemployment and a still-wobbly economy, any good news from the jobs market is going to get some traction. But even that doesn't seem to fully explain the attention surrounding a suddenly very "in" job title: data scientist. Read More

WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel®

Accelerate Performance with High Performance Computing
In this eGuide, articles from Computerworld and InfoWorld offer case studies, examples and opinions of how HPC can be applied to real-world problems today, and what the future of the technology is likely to hold. Read Now!

HP's first Moonshot server with Atom processors priced at $61,875
Hewlett-Packard's new densely packed low-power Moonshot server has finally come out of the company's labs and is available to customers in the U.S. and Canada starting at $61,875. Read More

Flash storage driving VDI adoption, claims Pure
For years analysts have been predicting that virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be the "next big thing," but the concept is still failing to set the world on fire. Many organisations, while supporting the ideas behind VDI integration, have not yet taken the final leap a primarily due to concerns about cost and performance. Read More

Microsoft tempts XP laggards with $84 upgrade discount
Microsoft today kicked off a new promotion aimed at Windows XP customers, who have just one year to ditch the 12-year-old OS before it's retired from support. Read More

12 LinkedIn mistakes IT pros make
Don't wait until you decide to leave your current job to update your LinkedIn profile. Start today, and avoid these mistakes. Read More

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