ADTRAN Bluesocket vWLAN APs Optimized for Cloud-Services and Mobile Offload Applications

ADTRAN, a leading provider of cloud connectivity, virtual mobility and enterprise communications solutions, today announced the expansion of its suite of high-performance Bluesocket® Access Points (APs). These new APs allow vWLAN® to be optimized for more applications across enterprise vertical markets and service providers. The portfolio of APs supports new three spatial stream capable devices… Continue reading ADTRAN Bluesocket vWLAN APs Optimized for Cloud-Services and Mobile Offload Applications

Silver Peak Delivers VXOA 6.0 – improving accelerating data over distance options

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in accelerating data over distance, today announced the availability of its Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) release 6.0. The new software release delivers record performance improvements to all Silver Peak physical and virtual products, and includes new features that enable virtualization, storage and networking professionals to accelerate their business-critical workloads… Continue reading Silver Peak Delivers VXOA 6.0 – improving accelerating data over distance options

Arista Broadens Cloud Networking Solutions for the Data Center

Gartner Data Center Conference 2012 Arista Networks today announced an addition to its 7050 Series, providing customers with another option for migrating data centers to 10GbE driven by growth in big data and virtualization. The Arista 7050T-36 is the newest addition to the industry’s lowest power and most flexible series of purpose built 10GBASE-T switches,… Continue reading Arista Broadens Cloud Networking Solutions for the Data Center

F5 Solutions Combine with VXLAN to Support Software Defined Networking

VMworld Europe 2012 BARCELONA, Spain: F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today at VMworld® 2012 Europe announced support for VXLAN functionality, enabling organizations to seamlessly support software defined networking (SDN) initiatives by combining VMware and F5 solutions. F5® BIG-IP® products can natively take advantage of the benefits of… Continue reading F5 Solutions Combine with VXLAN to Support Software Defined Networking

How to upgrade VMware VDS using vSphere Web Client 5.1

This how-to will go through steps on upgrading virtual Distributed Switch in VMware vSphere 5.1. I wanted to test and enable some of the new features in the new Vmware vSphere 5.1, particularly those related to VDS, such as LACP and Health check so decided to perform an upgrade on vDS in my home virtualization… Continue reading How to upgrade VMware VDS using vSphere Web Client 5.1

Broadcom Unlocks New Advanced Functionality for Windows Server 2012

Unlocks advanced virtualization, networking and storage features Increases server throughput performance up to 77 percent1 Reduces cost, complexity and deployment time through broad support for all current platforms Broadcom Corporation, a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today announced support for advanced functionality in Windows Server 2012, enabling a powerful… Continue reading Broadcom Unlocks New Advanced Functionality for Windows Server 2012

Vyatta to Virtualize Networking for Leading Cloud Provider’s Datacenter

Vyatta, the leader in software-based networking for virtual and cloud environments, today announced its enterprise-class virtual networking and security solution is providing the software for NS Solutions Corporation’s newest cloud service, Advanced Business Space on Network (absonne) datacenter. NS Solutions is a leading IT solution provider in Japan operating a utility computing service called absonne.… Continue reading Vyatta to Virtualize Networking for Leading Cloud Provider’s Datacenter

VMworld Attendees Reject Third-Party Virtual TAP Technology

VMworld US 2012 Virtual blind spots continue to be a major network visibility challenge for security and network engineers. Last week, VMworld® attendees confirmed that network monitoring, even in virtual environments, continues to be a challenge in protecting the security and performance of their networks. A survey conducted by Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA) of more than… Continue reading VMworld Attendees Reject Third-Party Virtual TAP Technology