Data Center

Managed hosting vendor hits $1 billion in revenues for the first time as cloud business puts it over the top.

Q2 earnings topped the company's projections but Q3 is expected to come in a little lower. Cisco's UCS platform is growing by leaps and bounds.

Google beats Cisco to the top spot in Greenpeace's list of eco-friendly IT companies while much of the industry doesn't even have a plan in place to lower their eco-footprint.

Juniper Networks is rolling out a portfolio of five routers this week as part of a new end-to-end solution called Universal Access for connecting business, residential and mobile networks. 

VMware vCloud integration manager expedites cloud deployments by enabling service providers to integrate CRM info into the provisioning of cloud services.

Like server virtualization, Nicira plans to make the physical network virtual, keeping benefits and doing away with limitations. The company already has eBay, Rackspace and AT&T as customers.

New Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure effort is introduced to aid branch consolidation and WAN optimization and powered by a new hardware series called Granite.

Following on the heels of it's 12.3 ADC release that improved IPv6 performance, Brocade is providing more scriptable extensibility via Perl but it staying away from the firewall moniker unlike rival F5.

As renewal of the .com registry nears, VeriSign posts strong 2011 results

The big carriers are starting to spend less on networking gear and services and wasn't good for Juniper's Q4 but, for the year, the company came out nine percent ahead.

Like most things, booting up from SAN vs. the server's hard drive does offer many benefits but there are few caveat emptors along the way. But, if managed correctly, they may not be that big a deal.

Application delivery controller vendor gets certified as a firewall solution enabling it to be used in PCI-DSS certification efforts.

Not yet but this will undoubtedly change given what usually happens with malware, the proliferation of Android and iOS devices in the enterprise, and the organized crime syndicates behind many of today's threats.

Data center energy consumption is a hot issues these days and liquid cooling vendors are betting they have the solutions that will cut costs and improve performance and utilization.

Intel is best known in the networking space for its Ethernet networking gear but with the $125M purchase of InfiniBand from QLogic, it's moving to take a place in InfiniBand, too.