HP unveils Cisco SDN-like switch

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HP unveils Cisco SDN-like switch

HP this week will unveil a software-defined networking switch and application that add bulk to the company's 50-switch SDN arsenal and should enable it to compete more directly with Cisco and Arista on this front.The switch, being unveiled at HP's annual Discover customer conference in Las Vegas, is called the FlexFabric datacenter 7900 series. It is a nonblocking Layer 2/3 Clos switch with 40G interfaces and support for OpenFlow, and VXLAN and NVGRE tunneling for network virtualization. It is designed to integrate the virtual overlay with the physical underlay networks to create a unified fabric for network visibility, availability and response time, and for supporting rapid workload mobility for VMware vSphere vMotion environments.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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1. HP enters supercomputing market with water-cooled Apollo system

2. Netflix won't budge in dispute with Verizon over video quality

3. PayPal chief joins Facebook to strengthen mobile messaging

4. Start-up wants to use Big Data to thwart security threats

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6. Chinese cyberspies targeting U.S, European defense, space sectors

7. Daunting photos of a village built to handle electronic waste

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10. Toronto cracks winner's circle in Smart City competition

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HP enters supercomputing market with water-cooled Apollo system

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Chinese cyberspies targeting U.S, European defense, space sectors

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Daunting photos of a village built to handle electronic waste

"Image by REUTERS/Oswaldo RivasReuters calls it a hub for electronic rubbish. That would be Dongxiaokou village, which sits on the outskirts of Beijing in China. Here all manner of e-waste is sent to be stripped for recycling or just plain scrap. Dongxiaokou's residents grapple with poor infrastructure and sanitation facilities, in addition to dangers associated with handling e-waste. The village is now facing demolition and residents are worried about losing their homes and work, according to Reuters. China is now the planet's second biggest producer of it, only behind the United States, according to information from a 2013 environmental conference.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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Toronto cracks winner's circle in Smart City competition

New York City Toronto, Canada's largest city, was named `Intelligent Community of the Year' last week at the annual Intelligent Community Forum. This was the third try for the Toronto mega-region, home to 175,000 Information and Communication Technology workers in 11,500 companies. The region has an additional 230,000 financial services employees, making it the fastest growing financial sector in North America. Lou Zacharilla, co-founder of the Intelligent Community Forum think tank, dubbed the Canadian winner "New York City with manners." In its application, the city repeatedly emphasized its culture of tolerance, diversity, collaboration, and inter-sector cooperation.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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