A concert with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and soprano Maria Luigia Borsi in the decorated Teatro Verdi, in Florence, would not normally be something that I would cover. But they weren't the ones people…
Rackspace announces intent to acquire Datapipe
Rackspace announce their intent to acquire Datapipe. This will make Rackspace a global leader in multi-cloud managed services, as well as hosting and private cloud provision.
There’s a problem with IPv6 route lookup speed in Linux
The challenge The great thing about IPv6 is its larger IP address space, but this is also its weakness. That larger IP address space needs routing, potentially creating larger routing…
BBR improves Google Cloud Platform performance
Google has developed a new TCP congestion control mechanism. This has now been applied to the Google Compute Platform, having previously been added to YouTube and Google.com. This BBR (Bandwidth…
MEF focuses on SD-WAN with LSO and OpenCS
The old Metro Ethernet Forum (now simply MEF) issued a press release to cover a focus on SD-WAN. This covers three areas: Service Implementations using the MEF frameworks Market Education…
IBM’s new z/14 encrypting mainframe
IBM launches the z/14 mainframe, which encrypts data at rest and in flight using Pervasive Encryption.
Mellanox launches Spectrum2 switch for 400Gb/s future
Mellanox has launched a new ethernet switch chipset family. Spectrum 2 is an open switch platform with capabilities of 200Gb/s and 400Gb/s per port. As well as high-speed, Mellanox are…
AT&T buys Vyatta assets from Brocade
AT&T are buying from Brocade their Vyatta assets. Brocade's IP network assets are being split out and sold off as part of their impending sale to Broadcom . The Vyatta…