Bi-Monthly Computer Networking/IT Industry Updates (11 – 24 Mar, ’14)

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Welcome to another edition of bi-monthly Computer Networking/IT industry updates. In this edition, let’s look at some interesting news, product releases and articles published by the vendors in our industry, over the last two weeks (11 Mar – 24 Mar, 2014).

#1. Cisco & Partners to offer Public Cloud Services: Cisco has announced its intention to spend $1 billion USD to begin to offer (public) cloud services to (corporate) customers. Read more…

#2. Cisco introduces new Nexus 9000 Series & 3000 Series Switches: The new Cisco Nexus 9516 Switches offer 576 wire-speed 40 GB Ethernet ports; Nexus 9504 Switches enables migration from Core-Aggregation-Access to Spine Leaf Architecture; Nexus 3164Q Switches offer 256 10 Gigabit ports, among others. Read more…

#3. Hp introduces Hp MSA 1040 Storage systems for SMBs: This is expected to be available in 1 GbE iSCSI, 8 Gb Fiber Channel and 10 GbE iSCSI configurations, beginning Mar. 31. Read more…

#4. Ruckus Introduces ZoneFlex R700 802.11ac Indoor Access Point: The company claims that this new indoor AP provides an aggregate data rates of up to 1.75 Gbps (5 GHz + 2.4 GHz) using 802.3af PoE standard. Read more…

#5. Amazon Web Services launches ‘City on a Cloud’ Innovation Challenge contest: If you are a Government agency or a developer, and have used AWS platform to create solutions on the cloud that solved interesting challenges faced by your city, you might want to participate in this contest. Read more…

#6. Dell announces the acquisition of StatSoft: StatSoft provides Data Mining, Predictive Analytics & Data Visualization capabilities, and this acquisition is expected to compliment the existing offerings of Dell Software. Read more…

#7. Barracuda Labs launches Threatglass, an online tool for sharing, browsing and analyzing website malware: With this tool, community members can visualize website infections in a graphical representation, view charting and trending data of historical malware volumes, share data with other researchers, submit websites for inspection & analysis, among others. Read more…

#8. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report released for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics: You can see it from the link provided here (via Riverbed).

#9. Digium introduces new D45 IP Phone: According to the company, this phone is Gigabit enabled (with two switch ports) and is tightly integrated with Asterisk (open source IP Telephony software). Read more…

#10. VMware introduces VMware Virtual SAN: This is VMware’s Software Defined Storage product that is built directly into the VMware vSphere kernel, if you choose to buy it. The company says it’s a hardware independent solution. Read more…

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