HP rips out Cisco kit in six internal data centres and replaces with own
HP has completed its originally announced plan to remove Cisco networking equipment from all six of its internal data centres
and replace the kit with its own. The project was due to take a year, but has been completed in six
months. Any non[HP WAN equipment connecting to the six data centres -- two based in Houston, two in
Austin and two in Atlanta -- have been replaced, in addition to other HP
switches and routers installed. The vendor claims the new equipment was installed with no
downtime to the data centres.
Emulex supports ANSI T11 16Gb/s Fibre Channel standard
Emulex has announced its support for the ANSI T11 16 GB/s Fibre Channel standard. The 16 GB/s Fibre
Channel standard is tipped as being critical for supporting evolving server workloads, which can
include the likes of high bandwidth applications for databases and virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI).
Sophis partners with Platform Computing to target finance sector
Risk management firm Sophis has announced a partnership with Platform Computing. Working with the cluster, grid and cloud
management vendor, Sophis will offer an integrated solution with Platform Symphony for users in the
financial industry. Banking, insurance and investment management sectors will be targeted for this
solution.
Gartner encourages businesses to take another look at virtualisation
Analyst Gartner has said that virtual software will be the highest-impact issue
challenging infrastructure and operations through 2015. According to Gartner, 80% of
enterprises already have a virtualisation project in mind.
Nimsoft announces Monitoring Solution for Vblocks
Nimsoft, a CA technologies company, has announced monitoring for private cloud Vblock Infrastructure Packages. The Nimsoft
Monitoring Solution (NMS) is designed so service providers and enterprises can recover the root
causes of issues that impact their IT services. Monitoring for Vblock is available as an option to
the on-premise Nimsoft Monitoring Solution or the recently released Nimsoft On Demand (SaaS)
offering.
Kayleigh Bateman is the Site Editor of SearchVirtualDataCentre.co.uk.
