Recent Increases in Power Cost Creating Concern and Changing Architectures in The Cloud Most Cloud data center designs assume small increases in power costs over the life of a facility. In 2022, Cloud operators struggled to increase power to some facilities, especially in large metro areas, and already played out… Read More »Active Copper Market Helps Reduce Power Consumption in the Data Center
On December 7th, Juniper’s announced its plan to acquire Apstra. The deal is expected to close in 1H’20. Apstra, founded 2014, boasts numerous customer success stories in large enterprises, service providers, and even reaches into the mid-sized customer segment. Cutting down complexity by automating data center operations is an immediate… Read More »650 Group Take: Juniper’s Announced AcQuisition of Apstra – A Move to Software, Day 2 Operations, Automation
Throughout the years, I’ve attended Aruba’s Atmosphere conferences. This year, I missed the in-person connections of the previous years, but Aruba did a great job transitioning over to a virtual event with engaging content…and some green screens. At Aruba’s user conference, Atmosphere, the company informed attendees of its new single-pane,… Read More »HPE Aruba Networks #ATMDigital conference wrap-up
Huawei hosted 700 analysts and media participants in Shenzhen China last week to attend its annual analyst summit, nick-named HAS2019. The company’s high-level message was simple – the company is an innovator and is moving down the stack into semiconductors and is partnering with and funding university projects to develop… Read More »Huawei’s Chip Projects Front and Center at Analyst Summit (HAS2019)
Juniper Networks announced plans to acquire Mist Systems for approximately $405M in cash. We think this deal makes sense for Juniper, who can now sell a key technology – WLAN – into its customer base of large and medium enterprises. Valuation of the deal probably fell a bit short of… Read More »Juniper announces plan to Acquire WLAN Vendor, Mist Systems
There were two main announcements, a new relationship with Google Cloud Platform and a new flash device – the AFF A800. Also, in our interviews with NetApp, we learned about the future of Fibre Channel at the hyperscalers. Google. Google Cloud Platform now integrates NetApp Cloud Volumes as a drop-down… Read More »NetApp Industry Analyst Meeting announcements – Google and more flash
Eric Xu, Rotating Deputy Chairman of Huawei addressing audience questions at the Huawei Analyst Summit 2018 The main theme of the the Huawei HAS 2018 meeting keynotes was Artificial Intelligence and, secondarily, nearly ubiquitous networks connections across the world. Huawei expects 86% of enterprises to have experimented with AI by… Read More »Huawei Analyst Meeting Recap – a Big Focus on Artificial Intelligence and a Downplay of 5G
There were 3,100 attendees at the Atmosphere show in Las Vegas, most of which appeared in attendance at the keynote. Artificial Intelligence and Cloud were the main topics. Specifically new for the show: cloud-managed SD-WAN, NetInsight, ArubaEdge Partner program, Cape Networks acquisition. Cloud-managed SD-WAN – June/July ’18 availability (dynamic path… Read More »HPE Aruba Atmosphere Keynote Summary
