Data Center

Juniper swallows silicon photonics player Aurrion

Cisco, Intel, IBM, Mellanox use silicon photonics to better handle video streaming and data center to data center traffic.

VCE exec: We’re staying tight with Cisco

EMC’s converged infrastructure division is single largest Cisco UCS customer in the world, VCE President says

VCE chief boasts of hyperconvergence superpower

President Sakac eager to join forces with Dell; vows to stick with Cisco on converged infrastructure

Telco central offices could be in for open source makeover

Google hosting first CORD summit in support of open networking backed by Cisco, Ciena, AT&T, Verizon and others

Fixing the perception that enterprise IT is irrelevant

IT’s relationship with the rest of enterprise is getting increasingly rocky. Steps can be taken, however, to alleviate the situation.

$1 trillion in IT spending to be ‘affected’ by the cloud

Gartner analyst: In the next few years, a ‘shift to cloud’ will become ‘one of the most disruptive forces of IT spending since the early days of the digital age.’

Making plans for SysAdmin Day 2016

Riverbed acquires Aternity to get an end-user perspective

The addition of Aternity allows Riverbed to gather data from many sources, including end-user devices, to help customers quickly find performance problems and fix them before they impact the business

Citrix & LogMeIn complete complicated, tax-free sort-of merger

$1.8B transaction unites collaboration product lines, allows Citrix to focus on core business

How to benchmark your IT outsourcing vendor management skills

Alsbridge’s Jeff Augustin discusses vendor management and governance practices that help IT organizations gauge their effectiveness in service delivery management and general strategy.