We see the standard being expanded horizontally to address the specific needs of new markets such as energy efficiency, in-car networking, data-center networking and content delivery.
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On Tuesday Intel agreed to acquire Fulcrum Microsystems, a privately-held designer of processors used in data center networking gear sold by companies such as Arista.
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Advanced data center and networking companies like Equinix would love to be the place where multi-cloud services live.
Usually, chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie shows off a range of stuff from his 800 scientists, from data center software to social networking toys.
Portability is high among the concerns for enterprise customers, who need to be able to move their entire data center workload (apps, networking, and security) from one provider to another.
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") IBM, for its part, has partnered with networking companies Juniper and Brocade to resell their hardware to its data center customers. (See: "IBM's Neutral Networking Play.
Recognizing that these trends are here to stay, IT equipment manufacturers are innovating a new generation of data center, software tools, and networking products that are more energy-efficient than predecessors.
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Now Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), whose name is synonymous with networking, is eyeing that migration to the data center, and working on a big switch of its own--the biggest, in fact, that it has ever produced.
Data center storageis a highly specialized industry differentiated for its facilitation of networking, storage, as well as communications technology infrastructure.
There is still a lot to be done in removing operational cost inside the data center: Now-separate elements like compute, storage and networking are increasingly intertwined, and may eventually be subsumed into a single basic operation where few programmers go.
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Strategic services include Verizon Terremark cloud and data center services, security and IT solutions, advanced communications, and strategic networking.
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