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Storage Infrastructure Market update
Tomorrow, at 8:30 AM, we are presenting at the Flash Memory Summit 2017 and will share our views on the storage infrastructure market. We expecting growth in segments such as hyperconverged, All Flash Arrays, and SDS. We expect growth from customer groups such as Cloud Service Providers, as well as… Read More »Blog
F5 Analyst Meeting – Application Security Focus
We attended the F5 analyst meeting, the first with new CEO, Francois Locoh-Donou. It is clear that the new CEO understands the impact the growth in the cloud has on F5, and VP Sales John DiLullo even went so far as to say that beginning about 18 months ago, his… Read More »Blog
GENBAND perspectives 2017 conference
The GENBAND Perspectives 2017 conference in Los Angeles did a good job of highlighting the relatively smaller division at GENBAND – Kandy. Additionally, the company highlighted its advances towards an NFV World, its participation in so-called “Network Evolution” (upgrading old PSTN and VoIP systems to new VoIP and IMS systems).… Read More »Blog
Cisco Catalyst 9000 – Major Step forward in Campus switching
Today, Cisco announced the Catalyst 9000 family. The first new Catalyst line in many years focused on campus networking as a unified network involving security, WLAN, and switching. This is a very big announcement for Cisco as it’s a real step towards Unified Access and not thinking of WLAN as… Read More »Blog
Nokia – 7750 SR – The race to 400 Gbps and Cloud Scale
Today Nokia announced its new FP4 ASIC and 7750 SR Router. Playing the leapfrogging game on speeds, we saw 36 400 Gbs ports in a 2RU box that looks awfully similar to a spine switch and the further blurring of what a next gen router and switch really look like,… Read More »Blog
Broadcom’s Trident 3 – A big deal well beyond the data center
Today Broadcom announced Trident 3. The companies third major release of a chip that drove the merchant silicon revolution in the data center and started the white box movie in the Cloud. With Trident 3, all of Broadcom’s data center switching ASICs now support speeds of at least 3.2 Tbps… Read More »Blog