thirteen-ten nanometer networks – shining a coherent light on network performance
Making a change to the usual SDN acronym, “Siemens Digitalisation Network” is provided by Orange Business Services. Covering 1500 sites, 94 countries and preparing Siemens for “Industry 4.0”, the network is based on SD-WAN providing a flexible and scalable infrastructure. “As a globally operating company with subsidiaries and divisions all over the world, we need…
Broadcom is seeking to change Qualcomm‘s mind on the unsolicited merger announced recently. Qualcomm rejected the bid, and now Broadcom’s next step is seen. (Broadcom to Nominate Slate of 11 Independent, Highly Qualified Directors for Election at Qualcomm’s 2018 Annual Meeting) Broadcom is proposing 11 new board members to Qualcomm’s board at the Annual Meeting in…
Microsoft‘s Azure blog has posted an announcement (Transforming your VMware environment with Microsoft Azure) about how they are managing VMware elements with Azure tools, as well as a full VMware stack deployment on bare-metal servers in the Azure environment. Microsoft is announcing Azure Migrate, a service to cluster VMware based applications, and understand the group-level…
According to IBM Research’s blog, a change they made 20 years ago is still helping us today. (One big wire change in ’97 still helping chips achieve tiny scale). 20 years ago is a long time in technology. In 1997 we were talking about CPU speeds of 233Mhz on 180nm chips. IBM’s Deep Blue was operating…
The Top500 list regularly polls the organisations that run supercomputers creating a list of largest, fastest, most efficient and so on. The 50th release of the Top500 list was released yesterday. And there have been some changes. The first is the rise in the number of Chinese supercomputers, putting them ahead of the United States for…
Dropbox‘s blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via IPv6 each day. With IPv4 addresses no longer available, they need to support IPv6 to support the growth of their service in areas which are…
Today IBM launched its latest mainframe, the z/14. z/14 builds on the heritage of the z/13 platform launched in 2015, and the previous z/10 (2008) and z/9 (2005) platforms. z/14 however, is not just a performance and scaling enhancement on the previous generation, but offers a fundamental change in the architecture of any data management…
Brocade, after the sale of the Vyatta group to AT&T, have announced the End of Life of the Brocade v5600 router platform. The platform is end of life on October 5, 2017. Brocade announced this prior to the release of the press-releases for completing the acquisition. This is expected as AT&T have not made any…