IBM reinforces enterprise multi-cloud growth with automation tools, ServiceNow expansion
IBM wants to make it easier for customers to move to multi-cloud environments by adding automation tools and extending its relationship with ServiceNow.
IBM wants to make it easier for customers to move to multi-cloud environments by adding automation tools and extending its relationship with ServiceNow.
Cisco is making it possible to run, manage, automate and secure wired and wireless networks all on top of a single operating system.
Cisco has 400G Ethernet switches that fall into two camps: The Nexus 9000 family aimed at large enterprise networks and the 3400-S class for hyper-scale users.
Arista’s 7060X4 Series switches feature 32 400G Ethernet ports and are based on Broadcom Tomahawk silicon.
Enterprise software spending is forecast to experience the highest growth with an 8.3 percent increase in 2019. Communications services like MPLS and other WAN services will hit 1.4 trillion in 2018.
IBM’s new Multi-cloud Manager will manage workloads on Big Blue clouds but also on Amazon, Red Hat and Microsoft infrastructure.
Juniper is looking to be an evangelist for network automation by announcing a variety of applications, tools, labs and libraries that it says will hasten adoption the technology for businesses and network professionals.
Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim is shepherding a number of key transitions for the company, spanning network, security and multi-cloud.
Juniper made a big bet on 400G Ethernet this summer, detailing how it plans to transition its wide-area network, data center and enterprise portfolio to 400G Ethernet. And earlier this year, Juniper released its Contrail Enterprise Multicloud software, an SDN controller that is the central component of its multicloud, intent-based networking strategy. Ahead of its NXTWORK summit next week, Juniper CEO Rami Rahim talked with Network World’s Michael Cooney.
Some Cisco Webex users are still having some problems with the collaboration system over a week after the service went dark.
Cisco has teamed with SAP to make it easier for customers to manage high-volumes of data from multi-cloud and distributed data centre resources.
Cisco has closed the US$2.35 billion deal it made for network identity, authentication security company Duo.
Cisco Webex users continue to experience intermittent problems, some 24 hours after a complete outage of the collaboration system started.
According to the company’s website a major outage began at 0122 GMT on September 25 and shut down all Webex services from – Calling, Meetings, Control Hub, Hybrid Services and Team. At the time the company stated that “Webex Teams services are currently impacted by an ongoing service outage. Engineering resources are online and working to restore services. We apologize for the impact and all hands are on deck to restore Teams, Meetings, Calling, Care and Context services.”
High-speed-Ethernet demos from Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Intel, Huawei and others portend a strong, looming 400G Ethernet future.