It can take Michael Tardif days to get his infrastructure ready to deploy a new application. Tardif, vice president and general manager of global hosting services for Savvis, a leading global IT ...

Cisco is using its high-powered Silicon One chip technology to turn up the power and efficiency of its Nexus family of data center, hyperscaler and cloud switches. The company rolled out a new ...

Most Cisco switches do not support the NBAR classification mechanism which can look into the layer 7 header of a packet (up to 400 bytes). NBAR is supported in the 6500 switch, but can cause a very, ...

Extreme Networks has launched a series of switch modules for its Black Diamond chassis. Aimed at the edge of the network in the wiring closet rather than the datacentre or at the core/aggregation ...