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Infoblox Inc., the automated network control company, today announced that it
has become the first and only DDI (DNS, DHCP and IP address Management)
vendor to achieve Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2 (EAL-2)
certification. The certification, in combination with new security offerings,
demonstrates Infoblox’s commitment to protecting customers from evolving
security threats.
Common Criteria is one of the highest internationally recognized sets of
guidelines for evaluating security product features and capabilities.
Infoblox products covered by the certification include Infoblox Trinzic
DDITM, Infoblox GRIDTM and Infoblox Trinzic ReportingTM. The Common Criteria
evaluation was performed in accordance with both the international Common
Criteria standards (ISO/IEC 15408) and the guidance provided by the Common
Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCE... (more)
Open Networking Summits, Inc., the only nonprofit conference organization
dedicated to accelerating the future of Software Defined Networking (SDN)
technologies, is now accepting exhibitor entries for SDN [email protected], a new
product-pitch competition to be held during the event on April 16 from 7 –
8 p.m. PDT in the Santa Clara Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
Theater. Exhibitors of ONS 2013 will have the opportunity to participate in
SDN [email protected] to showcase new SDN products, and present why it is leading the
industry.
“The goal of the 2013 Open Networking Summit is to focus on end-users, and
emphasize actual deployments of OpenFlow and SDN products,” said Guru
Parulkar, chairman of the 2013 Summit. “SDN [email protected] will provide a fun and
friendly competition for start-ups and established company applicants to
showcase their latest implementation of OpenFl... (more)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/12/13 -- Gridstore, the leader in
software defined storage solutions, today an upcoming webinar co-hosted with
Veeam on Wednesday, March 13, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific/1:00 p.m. Eastern. The
online event, "Unlock VM Backups with The Grid - Now Optimized for Veeam," is
ideally suited for value added resellers and managed service providers that
want to make more margins on the storage they sell and provide customers with
the ideal storage solution for backup in virtualized environments.
"I have spoken with thousands of MSPs over the last eight years, and one of
their top concerns is finding a cost-effective and reliable backup solution
for their customers. The wave of virtualization sweeping the SMB landscape
has only made this a bigger challenge for service providers," Chris Sterbenc,
vice president of sales, Gridstore. "The unique ... (more)
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week Network World
chose Pluribus Networks as one of the top ten network virtualization, SDN
and data center companies to watch. Pluribus Networks offers a
programmable, distributed network operating system, Netvisor®, which runs
both on their own highly-optimized, intelligent Top of Rack (iTOR™)
hardware, as well as low-cost white box switches.
The Netvisor Fabric provides instant unmatched visibility, always available
analytics and high availability to the virtualized as well as non-virtualized
infrastructure. Since it is managed as a single logical switch and offers
plug and play functionality with sub micro-second latencies, the Netvisor
Fabric provides huge CAPEX and OPEX reduction in Web2.0 and Hadoop clusters,
making Pluribus Networks, the leader in intelligent top of the rack fabrics
for private and p... (more)
Technology media company TechTarget, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTGT) today announced the
launch of SearchSDN.com™, a new website designed to help network
professionals at every level make informed technology planning and investment
decisions as they transition to software-defined networking. Software-defined
networking (SDN) is a disruptive technology that promises to revolutionize
networking as we know it and has relevance to all corners of the networking
world. It will affect service provider networks, cloud networks and
enterprise networks. Given its wide-ranging impact, TechTarget’s Networking
Media Group is taking the opportunity to launch a dedicated site to cover the
technical development of software-defined networking and take a leadership
position in the coverage of this emerging market.
SearchSDN.com is dedicated to covering all aspects of software-defined
networking... (more)
TOKYO and PETALUMA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/14/13 -- KVH, Asia's leading
information delivery platform, and Cyan, a leading supplier of
software-defined networking (SDN) solutions for carriers and data center
operators, today announced that they have partnered to deliver the first 100
Gigabit Ethernet service in Japan. The innovative ultra high-capacity service
will be available in a broad set of Japan's major metropolitan markets. The
service leverages Cyan's DTM-100G coherent transponder module which, by
consuming a single slot in any Z-Series platform, provides unprecedented
optical reach flexibility while minimizing cost.
KVH, responding to continuing customer demand for ever more bandwidth in
order to address burgeoning internet and cloud computing applications, is
rolling out its 100G service with multiple service quality levels at highly
competitive prices.... (more)
FARMINGTON, Conn., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Tech executives and
system administrators can't stop buzzing about software defined networking
(SDN). Having redefined the archaic methods of manual configuration, the SDN
approach to building computer networks provides for rapid provision
connections in a mechanized fashion via separation and abstraction.
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130314/CG77250)
As the first standard communications interface defined between the controls
and forwarding layers of SDN architecture, OpenFlow is a protocol that allows
direct access and manipulation of the forwarding plane of network devices
both physical and virtual. The beauty of OpenFlow is that it can define how
traffic should flow through the network devices based on parameters such as
usage patterns, applications and cloud resources. This way it provides
ex... (more)
PETALUMA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/18/13 -- Cyan today announced the
expansion of its Latin American sales presence with the addition of Christian
Alvarez as vice president of sales for Latin America. Alvarez will be in
charge of Cyan's growing sales efforts in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central
and South America, where the company already has a number of active
deployments. Alvarez joins Cyan from Avaya where he was managing director for
the Americas division.
"Having made substantive headway in Europe and Asia Pacific, we are now
turning our attention to the significant growth opportunities we see in Latin
America," said Cyan chairman and CEO Mark Floyd. "Christian will be an
excellent leader for an already strong field operations team in Latin America
and will be instrumental in helping to further expand our customer footprint
throughout the region."
According ... (more)
OFC/NFOEC — CALIENT Technologies, Inc., the global leader for photonic
switching technology, and Plexxi Inc., creator of the industry’s first
affinity-driven networking solution, today announced a product integration
that demonstrates the benefits of a software defined optical layer in
today’s complex and highly dynamic data centers: increased flexibility,
time savings and decreased complexity.
Aimed at large-scale data centers, this integration leverages the major tenet
of software-defined networking (SDN): a centralized controller operating with
a network-wide view to drive forwarding behavior.
The Integration
With its Plexxi Control, Plexxi has introduced a way to push the benefits of
optics in the data center – advances in scale and economics for
performance, power and latency and unprecedented flexibility – to the
server edge. This allows large groups of serve... (more)
Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier
of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center
servers and storage systems, today announced the appointment of Kevin
Deierling and promotion of Gilad Shainer to vice presidents of marketing.
Their responsibilities will include leading new product development and
management, expanding into new markets, launching products and building
demand in the market, and developing and executing programs to promote the
Mellanox brand. Mr. Deierling and Mr. Shainer will report to Eyal Waldman,
Mellanox’s president, CEO, and chairman of the board.
Gilad Shainer, Vice President of Marketing, Mellanox Technologies (Photo:
Business Wire)
“I am very pleased to appoint Kevin and Gilad as vice presidents of
marketing. I'm excited to have Kevin, the second Mellanox employee in the
USA, r... (more)
Spirent Communications, the leader in testing networks, devices and services,
today announced that its test solution was used in a recent EANTC
interoperability event. Spirent, which has supported EANTC’s annual efforts
for close to a decade, continues to deliver the solutions needed to validate
established and emerging technologies and network protocols including Carrier
Ethernet, MPLS and Software-Defined Networks (SDN).
The interoperability event will be highlighted this week at MPLS and Ethernet
World Congress in Paris. Spirent TestCenter was used for OpenFlow testing and
emulation of MPLS-TP nodes as well as MPLS-TP and IP/MPLS internetworking and
other MPLS-related tests.
“EANTC continues to set industry standards for the planning, execution and
documentation of public interoperability events,” said Carsten
Rossenhoevel, managing director of EANTC. “Spirent’s ... (more)
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IoT & Smart Cities Stories By Zakia Bouachraoui  At CloudEXPO Silicon Valley, June 24-26, 2019, Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with expanded DevOpsSUMMIT and FinTechEXPO programs within the DXWorldEXPO agenda. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term. A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throug... Jan. 4, 2019 12:30 PM EST | By Liz McMillan  Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits. 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Unfortunately, this inevitably makes IoT less approachable for people to get started with and can hamper efforts to integrate this key technology into your own portfolio. There are so many connected products already in place today with many hundreds more on the h... Nov. 10, 2018 11:45 PM EST Reads: 2,064 | By Pat Romanski  The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addr... Nov. 10, 2018 10:00 PM EST Reads: 3,206 | By Pat Romanski  Digital Transformation: Preparing Cloud & IoT Security for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) power solution development and delivery, many businesses need to build backend cloud capabilities. Well-poised organizations, marketing smart devices with AI and BlockChain capabilities prepare to refine compliance and regulatory capabilities in 2018. Volumes of health, financial, technical and privacy data, along with tightening compliance requirements by... Nov. 10, 2018 01:00 AM EST Reads: 2,941 | By Pat Romanski  Charles Araujo is an industry analyst, internationally recognized authority on the Digital Enterprise and author of The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT is About to Change. As Principal Analyst with Intellyx, he writes, speaks and advises organizations on how to navigate through this time of disruption. He is also the founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation and a sought after keynote speaker. He has been a regular contributor to both InformationWeek and CIO Insight... 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It’s clear that traditional IT monitoring and management approaches, designed after all for on-premises data centers, are falling short in ... Nov. 2, 2018 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,210 | By Elizabeth White  In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential.
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