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Cisco serves up flexible data centre options

Cisco is spreading its data-centre technology to help customers grow and control hybrid, multi-cloud or hyper-converged edge environments.

Cisco adds July geolocation tech, targets mobile enterprise apps

Cisco cloud-based DNA Spaces includes Cisco’s Connected Mobile Experience and enterprise geolocation tech purchased from July Systems.

Industrial IoT, fog computing consortia wed to bolster industry influence

Merged group, including Cisco, Juniper and Microsoft, looks to accelerate the adoption of all things edge computing, fog and Industrial IoT.

Cisco bets $660M on silicon-photonics firm Luxtera

Cisco is buying Luxtera for $660 million and will build its silicon photonics into future enterprise data-centre, webscale, and service-provider networking gear.

Juniper CTO talks cloud, high-speed networking

Juniper CTO Bikash Koley looks at disaggregation, cloud computing and intent-based networking as he looks toward 2019.

AWS offers hybrid cloud with on-prem hardware, VMware help

AWS has taken square aim at the data centre by tying in VMware technology and rolling out two new services and on-premise hardware.

What will be hot for Cisco in 2019?

Software, SD-WAN, security, high-speed data-centre networking and more software fill up the Cisco hot plate for 2019.

IBM reinforces enterprise multi-cloud growth with automation tools, ServiceNow expansion

IBM wants to make it easier for customers to move to multi-cloud environments by adding automation tools and extending its relationship with ServiceNow.

Cisco marries wireless, wired worlds with new Catalyst 9000 switches

Cisco is making it possible to run, manage, automate and secure wired and wireless networks all on top of a single operating system.

Cisco ups the ante for 400G Ethernet with big-bandwidth data centre switches

Cisco has 400G Ethernet switches that fall into two camps: The Nexus 9000 family aimed at large enterprise networks and the 3400-S class for hyper-scale users.

Arista joins Juniper, Cisco in 400G Ethernet race

Arista’s 7060X4 Series switches feature 32 400G Ethernet ports and are based on Broadcom Tomahawk silicon.

IBM wants to manage cloud services across multiple vendors

IBM’s new Multi-cloud Manager will manage workloads on Big Blue clouds but also on Amazon, Red Hat and Microsoft infrastructure.

Juniper Networks CEO talks network, security and multi-cloud

Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim is shepherding a number of key transitions for the company, spanning network, security and multi-cloud.

Cisco Webex outage: collaboration service finding a lumpy recovery

Some Cisco Webex users are still having some problems with the collaboration system over a week after the service went dark.

Cisco teams up with SAP to ease cloud, container integration and management

Cisco has teamed with SAP to make it easier for customers to manage high-volumes of data from multi-cloud and distributed data centre resources.

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