As virtualization and the movement of virtual machines around the infrastructure accelerates, so too must your network.

Brocade's installed base of Fibre Channel SANs is both an asset and an albatross.

HP this week refreshed its high-end chassis Ethernet switches with modules that conform to the IEEE’s Energy Efficient Ethernet standard for reducing power consumption.

The firms will converge their data center connectivity products for linking servers, storage solutions, fabric switches, and related software.

Turns out the Windows Network driver implementation are so loose and uncontrolled that there is no consistent behaviour when capturing packets with VLAN tags.

HP this week unveiled data center switching and security products designed to simplify server connectivity and protect data in a converged infrastructure.

It hasn’t been since the mid 1990s that the networking industry was focused on multi-protocol integration or convergence. The industry is gearing up for a major innovation and competitive cycle fueled by the multi-billion dollar addressable market for data center network fabrics. Over the last eighteen months, every major Ethernet infrastructure provider has been talking about two and three tier network fabrics for high-end data centers.

Avaya is prepping to launch its one-box data-center strategy early in October -- the VSP 9000 switch -- as a counter to Cisco's more comprehensive approach.

Just a quick note that the new release of UCS Manager (UCSM) for the Cisco Unified Computing System now supports 512 VLANs. Many have been waiting for this increased support and there are more to come in the future.The version is 1.3(1), the details of the update (apart from this hidden fact) are in the release notes.

Force10 Networks unveiled a Gigabit Ethernet top-of-rack data center switch optimized for virtual environments.