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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Juniper takes more shots at Cisco in the data center

Juniper's New Network Gains Traction | Why Data Centers Must Fundamentally Change -- Part 2.1

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Juniper takes more shots at Cisco in the data center
Juniper's data center announcement this week is another shot across the bow at Cisco, with direct hits on Cisco's Nexus switches and indirect jabs at the company's legacy in data center networking. But it's also yet another place setter for Juniper's upcoming Stratus launch, which was unveiled in early 2009 but is still another eight to 12 months away. Read More


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Juniper's New Network Gains Traction
Yesterday, Juniper Networks made a series of announcements. The company is introducing technologies to flatten and secure the data center network and change the economic model. Juniper will offer multiple new homegrown and third-party applications built on top of Junos (aka the Junos Space initiative). Juniper is also changing its support model for enterprise customers and offering its support in... Read More

Why Data Centers Must Fundamentally Change -- Part 2.1
I started writing this section, and when John Peach from the UK commented to me, "Doug, this isn't a blog, it is a dissertation" I felt I needed to shorten it a bit to make it more consumer-friendly. Well, I didn't want to shorten it too much, in case I lose something important, so it got much easier to break it up into chapters- a relatively easy way out. Read More


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Nexus 5000 Only Supports 16 EtherChannels
An interesting, and most likely uncritical, factoid popped up this week while our operations team was configuring a set of Nexus 5000 switches for 10GbE connections to blade servers in our DC. Read More

Future-Net Debrief
This week I attended and presented at the Future-Net conference in Boston. This conference isn't one of the biggest conferences but this intimate event provides some great presentations and the opportunity to meet and share ideas with a lot of great people. I attended this conference last year and provided a review of what I saw. I wanted to share with you some of what I learned this year and discuss... Read More


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