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Arista Networks has taken the cover off its Cognitive Networking for the wired and wireless campus edge. Arista, started by Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, quickly rose to prominence a little over a decade ago on the strength of its strong data center and cloud networking products. Trends like distributed applications, cloud connectivity and a […]

This week at Computex 2019 in Taipei, GPU market leader NVIDIA announced its new EGX server, an engineered system that brings high performance, low latency AI to the edge. The concept of EGX is similar to NVIDIA’s DGX, which is an engineered system specifically designed for data science teams (hence DGX, where Edge = EGX). […]

This week at its ExtremeConnect user event in Nashville, Tenn., Extreme Networks played the tune of autonomous networks. The theme of the event was #FutureForward, indicating that the customers in the audience should be looking at many of the upcoming technology and business trends to architect their networks. This includes technologies such as internet of […]

Arista is best known as a vendor that provides high-performance switching infrastructure for cloud providers, service providers and large enterprises that are building their own webscale data centers. The company also has line of switches that offer Internet scale L2 and L3 routing. Arista’s R Series, optimized for large virtualized and cloud networks, are the […]

We are rapidly moving toward a world where almost everything is connected, and this will increase the number of networked devices by orders of magnitude. IT professionals used to keep track of the number of devices per person as a way of gauging how many connected endpoints there were. Pre-BYOD businesses had about two devices […]

Late last month Avaya invited me to its ExperienceAvaya event in Singapore. Unlike Avaya’s U.S. Engage event, which is a massive conference that includes global customers, partners, the press and analysts, the Singapore event was much more intimate and regionally specific. Not only did it have a different feel to it, but it provided an […]

Dell held its annual Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas a few days ago. Attendance at the show numbered an impressive 15,000 people from 122 countries, highlighting how big the company is today. Another metric that demonstrates its massive size is that it did whopping $90 billion in revenue last year, up from $79 billion […]

In all of networking there is no product more iconic than Cisco’s Catalyst 6000 series of Ethernet switches. The Cat6K, as it’s more commonly known, is the Starship Enterprise of the networking industry in that if you work in the network industry, you’re familiar with it. Prior to being an industry analyst, I worked in […]

Last week Cisco Systems held its annual DevNet Create event at the super cool Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. This was Year 3 for Create, and as the show has grown, so has the breadth of its audience. The first year Create was held, it was focused primarily on IoT and cloud developers […]

The network infrastructure market has changed a lot over the past decade–not just the vendor landscape, but also in how products are made. Years ago, the majority of innovation on routers and switches was done in hardware with a little software sprinkled in for management. Today, the market has flipped 180 degrees as more and […]

It’s hard to overstate the value that WiFi has in today’s customer-first, digital world. Retailers are using mobile technology to create new shopping experiences, hospitals are connecting more WiFi devices to improve patient safety, and schools are adopting tablets as a way of changing the way students learn. Regardless of the vertical industry, WiFi is […]

Security vendor Fortinet held its annual Accelerate event April 8-11 in Orlando, Fla. My research has found that cybersecurity remains the No. 1 concern for both IT and business leaders. Not since Y2K have I seen a single theme unify technology and business leaders for this long a period of time. The event was hosted […]