There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed ...

Way back when virtualization was a new thing, virtual networks were simple connections that linked virtual servers and the occasional networking appliance. Now, however, things are different. Building ...

Cisco this week announced the availability of the its HealthPresence platform, the same one its been trialing for the past couple of years. Cisco HealthPresence is a specialized version of its ...

Think of a modern enterprise data center. There are likely hundreds of physical servers hosting thousands of VMs. Individual systems are connected via 10gbE links that likely feed 40gb cores. Local ...

Pity poor legacy networks. There’s a tremendous amount of change going on with everything that connects to networks — mobile devices, virtual hosts, cloud computing applications– but networks have ...