This week, Cisco has made two big announcements concerning the hybrid data center solutions, the next generation of Cisco’s Cloud Scale ASIC, and a new 400G line card for their Nexus 9500 modular chassis. With these two products, Cisco is making improvements in the capacity and manageability of their Nexus switching platforms and aims to

In response to the effects of the widespread COVID-19 pandemic, many companies have been doing what they can to can to help out their customers, both large and small, including offering free services. Synology is one of those companies, as they’ve made VPN Plus licenses free since April 6, 2020, and will continue to do

Today at GTC in Santa Clara, NVIDIA announced the first secure SmartNIC that is optimized for 25G, the NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx SmartNIC. Designed to provide advanced network offloads to accelerate cloud and enterprise workloads, the new SmartNIC is highly secure and able to hit 25/50Gb/s speeds.

Today NVIDA announced its intent to acquire Cumulus Networks. NVIDIA isn’t exactly on an acquisition frenzy, but they did recently acquire Mellanox as well. While the Mellanox deal went for just shy of $7 billion, there doesn’t seem to be a word yet on the price tag of Cumulus.

Today, Cumulus Networks released the latest version of NetQ, 3.0. NetQ is a realtime network monitoring and analytics tool. JR Rivers and Nolan Leake founded Cumulus Networks in 2010. NetQ is one of their two main products. The other is an open-source Linux (Debian based) operating system for network switches.

Cisco and Google made a joint announcement. They are hoping to release a turnkey networking solution that currently has the very long name of: Cisco SD-WAN (Software Defined-Wide Area Network) Cloud Hub with Google Cloud. Google is hopeful they’ll be able to release it sometime in the first half of 2021. With a target date

Today Marvell announced the enablement of NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) for VMware vSphere 7.0. This is done through the company’s QLogic Fibre Channel and FastLinQ Ethernet adapter solutions. The integration of the above offering brings low latency, high-performance flash int vSphere as its need for capacity and bandwidth grow.

At the end of the last year, Cisco announced its intention to acquire Exablaze. Now that the acquisition has gone through, the two companies are beginning to integrate. The bulk of this integration is centered around the Exablaze engineering team that will be integrated into the Cisco data center organization.

Today, SoftIron Ltd. announced their next-generation top-of-rack switch, SoftIron HyperSwitch. This new series of switches is built around maximizing the performance and flexibility of SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud). SONiC is the open source network operating system built by Microsoft for scale-out performance networking. The HyperSwitch family will have three models all