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IDC: Server Demand Remains Weak

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IDC: Server Demand Remains Weak

Global Q2 2013 server revenues drop by -6.2% Y-o-Y to $11.9 billion IDC reports-- a second consecutive quarter of Y-o-Y revenue declines as server demand remains soft in most geographical regions. 

Server unit shipments decline by -1.2% Y-o-Y to 2.0 million units, making Q2 2013 the third consecutive quarter of Y-o-Y server shipment declines. 

Volume system revenues drop by -2.4% Y-o-Y, midrange server revenues decline by -22.3% Y-o-Y and high-end systems are down by -9.5%, with relatively difficult Y-o-Y compares combined with transitions in technology refresh cycles. 


"Mainstream SMB and enterprise server customers around the world continue to focus on consolidation, virtualisation, and migration initiatives aimed at increasing efficiency and lowering datacentre infrastructure costs." IDC says. "At the same time, challenging economic conditions are dampening demand for new IT projects necessary to grow the server market globally... [T]he competitive dynamics in the server market remain fierce as the leading server vendors work to offset weak demand for generally higher margin Unix and blade servers with lower margin rack and density optimized servers." Read more...

Arista, ExtraHop Team Up in SDN

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Arista, ExtraHop Team Up in SDN

Arista Networks and ExtraHop Networks team up to launch an integrated visibility and monitoring solution for SDN-based datacentre networks-- the imaginatively named ExtraHop-Arista Persistent Monitoring Architecture for SDN. 

According to the two companies software-defined data centres are more complex than the legacy equivalents, demanding management tools able to provide visibility and correlation of data across the entire application delivery stack. 

Persistent Monitoring Architecture aggregates a copy of all traffic via the Data ANalyZer (DANZ) capabilities of the Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS), while the ExtraHop Context and Correlation Engine (CCE) automatically discovers, classifes and maps application and infrastructure dependencies without using agents.  Read more...

Penguin Intros Arctica Switches

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Penguin Intros Arctica Switches

The Arctica lineup of ethernet networking switches from Penguin Computing is designed with software defined datacentres in mind, offering multiple networking software options and enterprise support. 

Currently making the line are two options-- the Arctica 4804i 48-port gigabit ethernet switch and the 4804x 48-port 10 gigabit ethernet switch. Both are based on standard Broadcom silicon and offer multiple software options as a complete turn-key solution.  

All switches ship with certified cables and tranceivers, and a 32-port 40 gigabit ethernet version is in the works.  Read more...

Oracle Intros Virtual Compute Appliance

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Oracle Intros Virtual Compute Appliance

Oracle enters the pre-integrated systems market with the Virtual Compute Appliance-- a virtualised x86 server stack in a box complete with SDN software promising rapid and repeatable virtual infrastructure deployment. 

The Virtual Compute Appliance ships fully assembled and is based on the Oracle X3-2 servers. It includes two 8-core Intel Sandy Bridge-EP Xeon E5 processors running at 2.2GHz. 

The base rack runs the virtual stack on 2 server nodes, with 2 nodes handling virtualisation management software. Customers can easily add further nodes (up to 25 per rack), with the system automatically detecting and configuring new additions. 

Each node carries 256GB of 1.6GHz memory, two mirrored 900GB HDDs and a dual-port 40GBps InfiniBand adapter card.  Read more...

Huawei Takes on SDN Switches

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Huawei Takes on SDN Switches

Huawei stabs at a software defined networking (SDN) switch market dominated by Cisco and reveals the S12700 Agile switch series-- two products promising the most programmable and flexible ethernet switches yet. 

The switches (S12708 and S12712) feature the Huawei Ethernet Network Processor (ENP), a chip the company says is more easy to program than the application-specific integrated circuits (ASICS) inside most Cisco switches. 

The EPN accommodates next-generation protocols and virtualisation methods, including Virtual Extensible LAN (vxLAN) and Network Virtualisation using Generic Routing Encapsulation (nvGRE), and reduces power consumptions and service deployment times.  Read more...

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