Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is taking a key step forward in its strategy to support the delivery of secure, reliable and high-performance cloud services by introducing a major new capability to its portfolio of enterprise solutions. << MORE >>

Vordel, a provider of gateways for SOA and Cloud Computing today announced the availability of its Application Gateway Buyer's Guide. The purpose of the Buyer's Guide is to provide hype-free information to help IT professionals evaluate an application gateway (also known as XML gateway, SOA application gateway, and SOA appliance). This guide assesses important technology, product, deployment, and cost considerations that may not be obvious to buyers of application gateways. The goal of the Buyer's Guide is to enable potential customers ask the right questions during the evaluation process. The Guide does not contain any Vordel product information.<< MORE >>

Today Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is introducing a new solution, called CloudBand, which brings together the computing power and flexibility of the cloud with the high performance, reliability and security of communications networks. CloudBand is the foundation for a new class of ‘carrier cloud’ services that will enable communications service providers to bring the benefits of the cloud to their own networks and business operations, and put them in an ideal position to offer a new range of high-performance cloud services to enterprises and consumers.<< MORE >>

Vordel, a provider of SOA and Cloud Gateways and Perficient, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT), a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced a partnership whereby Perficient will provide consulting services for the Vordel Application Gateway.<< MORE >>

Arista Networks today announced four new switches to its 7050 Series family and Arista EOS software enhancements that address the most demanding needs in cloud computing environments. The products are an expansion of Arista’s cloud networking portfolio and provide the scalability, resilience and density customers with mission-critical data centers and cloud computing facilities require.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that it has become a strategic network provider to Standard Chartered Bank, an industry leader within emerging markets across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Juniper Networks® EX Series Ethernet Switches and SRX Series Services Gateways, which run the Junos® operating system, have been deployed to create a secure, high-performance, scalable core, access and data center network infrastructure at Standard Chartered sites in Singapore, Beijing and New York. << MORE >>

In the video Trevor Dearing, Head of Enterprise Marketing, EMEA, Juniper Networks looks at the technology behind the ideas; for example, how organisations can reduce their networks to two layers which improves performance between virtual machines and storage devices.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced it received a Carrier Ethernet World Congress (CEWC) Award at a prestigious gala held in Amsterdam, Netherlands as part of the recent CEWC event. The MX960 3D Universal Edge Router was named the winner in the "Best Carrier Ethernet Core Product" category.<< MORE >>

Arista Networks, Inc. the cloud networking company today surpassed a major customer milestone with the announcement of 1000 customers in only three years. The widespread deployment of Arista EOS software and data center switches has resulted in significant momentum among leading global technology companies such as MIXI, Chicago Board of Exchange, SingTel and StumbleUpon.“Arista Networks is becoming the clear choice for companies that want to build public and private cloud computing systems with the best available performance and advanced networking capabilities,” said Jayshree Ullal, president and CEO at Arista Networks.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that ASICS Australia, a leading sports footwear and performance apparel vendor, has deployed a highly-integrated security, routing and switching solution running the Junos® operating system. This deployment enables ASICS to support continued business growth, improve operational efficiency and comply with ASICS global security requirements.<< MORE >>

Cedexis, the leader in community-based cloud performance monitoring and optimization, today announced completion of interoperability testing with Juniper Networks and delivery of a new solution targeting service providers. The Juniper-Cedexis CDN Solution for Service Providers accelerates Web content performance by monitoring over 800 million real Web user performance metrics and acting on optimal routes. By avoiding slow spots and routing around outages, the solution advances a company’s ability to ensure a responsive and rich Web experience, no matter where end users reside around the world.<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that its intelligent, carrier-grade Domain Name System (DNS) services enable Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to scale their DNS infrastructures more efficiently, significantly reduce costs, and more quickly deploy critical new revenue-generating services. With these services, F5 continues to fulfill its vision of Service Delivery Networking (SDN), providing a unified platform for CSPs to deliver voice, data, and video services on a single IP-based network.<< MORE >>

The IEEE ComSocSCV Oct 12 meeting in Santa Clara, CA will address the challenges and opportunities in Cloud Networking. The Savvis Converged Cloud will be described as a solution. Juniper Networks and Arista Networks will then provide a network equipment vendor perspective of Cloud Networking. This will be followed by a lively panel session with both pre-planned and audience questions. << MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that it will highlight new networking technologies and protocols designed to significantly improve network flexibility and programmability during the Carrier Ethernet World Congress, taking place in Amsterdam, Oct. 10-13.<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that its BIG-IP® solutions have achieved Oracle Database Ready and Oracle WebLogic Ready status through Oracle PartnerNework (OPN). This achievement recognizes that F5 has fully tested and supports its BIG-IP version 10 products on Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1. F5 is a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork.<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today announced its new IPv6 Solution Services offering. This Professional Services offering will help organizations address their need to establish a presence on the IPv6 Internet as new IPv6-only devices flood the market and the available supply of IPv4 addresses dwindles. F5 has also announced that its BIG-IP® solutions are deployed in the Network Operations Center (NOC) at Interop New York, happening October 3‒7 at the Javits Convention Center. These solutions will provide key application and IPv6 connectivity in support of Interop vendors and attendees.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced the availability of Junosphere™ Lab, a new virtual environment that revolutionizes the way service providers and enterprises design, test and operate networks. Junosphere is a first-of-its-kind cloud offering that allows network operators to create and run networks on-demand, enabling network modeling, testing and planning at a scale that is practically impossible to achieve with physical equipment. Using Junosphere Lab, c ompanies can "rent" networks for as little as $50 per day, enabling them to speed modeling projects by over 30 percent and lower total cost of ownership by as much as 90 percent when compared to the alternative of building a physical lab.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that Phonoscope, operator of the largest privately-owned fiber optic Metropolitan Area Network in the U.S., has selected Juniper Networks routing solutions as its platform of choice to support IPv4/IPv6 addressing transition and coexistence across its 46 multi-gigabit Ethernet fiber optic rings. Based in Houston, Texas, Phonoscope supplies customers on its network with a variety of commercial and residential grade services and is making the necessary investments to fully support IPv6, in anticipation of the future depletio n of IPv4 addresses.<< MORE >>

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Latisys is implementing F5® VIPRION® Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) as a foundation of its private cloud and managed hosting solutions. Latisys provides IT outsourcing—such as data center colocation services, managed hosting, and cloud solutions—from its secure, high-density, Tier III data centers across the United States. The company is enhancing its high availability enterprise-grade managed services offering, which provides security, backup and recovery, storage, compute resources, and load balancing, to achieve service provider-grade performance levels. Through Latisys cloud services, customers will be able to expand their IT infrastructures dynamically to meet sudden increases in demand for computing resources while benefiting from a highly secure, fully redundant platform.<< MORE >>

Visual Network Systems, a leading provider of application and network performance management solutions for IT organizations, today announced a new version of OmniPoint™ Element, with support of virtual environments, further expanding flexibility of deployment and visibility of Visual Performance Manager™ into cloud environments.<< MORE >>

Joyent, the global provider of cloud computing software and services, and MiTAC Information Technology Corp. (MiTAC), a worldwide systems integrator, today launched MiCloud, Taiwan's first true public cloud service and a cloud solution bundle for enterprises and service providers. MiCloud is a fully integrated hardware and software solution consisting of MiTAC's 35 years of systems integration experience and TYAN servers, Joyent's comprehensive cloud software solution, SmartDataCenter, and Arista EOS, the world's most advanced network operating system, all bundled together into a single rack solution.<< MORE >>

Vyatta, the leader in software-based networking for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, announced that its latest product release, Vyatta Network OS 6.3, is now available as an Amazon Machine Images (AMI).<< MORE >>

Solarflare, the leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking hardware and software, and Arista Networks, the leading vendor of ultra low-latency 10GbE and cloud networking solutions, today announced jointly the completion of low-latency switch and adapter testing. Technology partners since October 2009, the two companies collaborated to address the growing need for low-latency, high-performance 10GbE switch-to-server solutions for high frequency trading and other demanding applications, such as cloud networking and big data.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today announced that FiberLight, LLC, a premier provider of mission-critical fiber optic network services for enterprises, government agencies and wholesale carriers in 23 U.S. metropolitan areas, selected Juniper Networks® MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers to deliver its next-generation dedicated IP platform. FiberLight relied on IBM for its design and engineering expertise to implement the new network infrastructure.<< MORE >>

6WIND, the industry standard for commercial multicore packet processing software, today announced the availability of its 6WINDGate™ software with optimized support for the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (Intel® DPDK). 6WIND will showcase its support for the Intel® DPDK at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco from September 13th through 15th (booth 106).<< MORE >>

Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems, announced today its continued commitment to promote the development of next-generation, open networking interfaces and open source data center and cloud networking technologies. As part of its commitment, Mellanox is pleased to announce its memberships in the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) and OpenStack communities.<< MORE >>

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today introduced the industry's highest edge routing capacity to accommodate the rapidly growing bandwidth requirements and subscriber expectations of new and emerging mobile, cloud computing and enterprise network applications, while significantly improving the total economic efficiency of the network.<< MORE >>

-Arista Networks, Inc. the leader in next-generation data center switching for cloud networking, today announced that it has been recognized by VMworld and TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com as the Best of VMworld 2011 in the Hardware for Virtualization category.<< MORE >>

Embrane, creators of the first distributed software platform for powering on-demand elastic network services, today announced that it has received $18 million in Series-B financing, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Lightspeed Venture Partners and North Bridge Ventures also participated in the round, following their initial lead investments in the company's $9 million Series-A funding.<< MORE >>

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