At the bottom line, Saugatuck sees significant opportunity and challenges for Cisco or any providers trying to bridge the traditionally-separate worlds and paradigms of IT and networking. Virtualization will be a key to adding valuable management capabilities and margins for both. But it will not necessarily be a key to uniting them, or to changing how users buy and manage them. - Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK<< MORE >>

nfoblox Inc., a global leader in appliance-based platforms for highly secure, manageable and robust core network services -- including domain name resolution (DNS), IP address assignment (DHCP), and IP address management (IPAM) -- announced today in a live video web cast "Unleashing the Power of Dynamic Infrastructure" event that its virtual software module is now available on the Cisco Application Extension Platform (AXP) for the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR). - Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK << MORE >>

Dynamic infrastructure will unleash new potentials in the network, from connectivity intelligence (dynamic links and reporting between networks, endpoints and applications) to the rise of IT automation on a scale that few have anticipated. It will unleash new consolidation potentials for virtualized data centers and various forms of cloud computing. - Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK << MORE >>

In 2008, Cloud Computing was more popular than what A-List celebrities wore on the red carpet. As the worst economic year since 1931 came to a close, why does Cloud Computing remain such a hot topic for 2009? The driving force? Arista Networks Chairman and Co-Founder (& Sun Microsystems Co-Founder), Andy Bechtolsheim, said it best in one word – Economics. It’s all about the “Benjamins” and what a cloud computing infrastructure can do for your wallet. - Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK << MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Joyent, a leading cloud computing vendor, has successfully deployed the F5(R) BIG-IP(R) Local Traffic Manager(TM) solution in its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) server virtualization architecture. - Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

The asset merger between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. aimed at forming a cutting-edge new wireless Internet network was closed Friday, with help from a $3.2 billion investment by Google Inc., Intel Corp, Comcast Corp. and others. - Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

zon CloudFront, a self-service, pay-as-you-go web service for content delivery. With CloudFront, developers and businesses can distribute content through a worldwide network of edge locations that provide low latency and high data transfer speeds. CloudFront works seamlessly with other AWS services such as Amazon S3, and like all AWS services, is self-service with no up-front commitments, no long-term contracts and pay-as-you-go pricing. Any business or developer can get started today using the beta of CloudFront. Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK << MORE >>

Level 3 Communications, Inc. today announced that it has been selected to provide caching and downloading services to Pando Networks, a pioneer of content delivery cloud services. Pando will use Level 3's content delivery network (CDN) to support the delivery of rich media content for commercial customers. - Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK - THE NETWORK ARCHITECT << MORE >>

Today at SC08, Arista Networks (formerly Arastra), a leading vendor of high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) and Cloud Networking(TM) Solutions announced interoperability with host adapters from industry leading vendors: Chelsio Communications, Intel, Mellanox Technologies, Myricom, Neterion, NetXen, and ServerEngines. Arista will be showcasing an end-to-end 10GbE ecosystem at booth # 2009. - Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK << MORE >>

The road to Infrastructure 2.0 is paved with many opportunities for Cisco and F5 Networks according to blogger Gregory Ness. - Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK << MORE >>

Hyperic Inc., the leading provider of web application performance monitoring software for the datacenter and the cloud, today announced Hyperic HQ 4.0, the next major evolution of its award-winning systems monitoring and management application. The new release addresses the growing needs of businesses embracing Amazon cloud services to create affordable and scalable IT deployment strategies. With today's release, Hyperic HQ is the first software that enables the modern enterprise to monitor its Amazon Web Services securely alongside internal infrastructure. It is also the first enterprise-class monitoring and management software offered for deployment and payment directly though Amazon Web Services. - Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK << MORE >>

Solace Systems, the leading supplier of high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, today announced a collaboration with Arista Networks and NetEffect, an Intel company, to demonstrate how specialty hardware platforms can optimize both the peak performance and consistency of ultra-low latency data delivery under the most demanding conditions. - Cloud Network Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK << MORE >>

Jayshree Ullal of Arista defines so called patented "Cloud Networking". - Cloud Computing Architect - THE CLOUD NETWORK << MORE >>

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