products & innovations
Huawei launches
Cloud Fabric 5.0
solution
Huawei has launched the Cloud
Fabric 5.0 solution for cloud services,
with a Huawei Fabric Insight Refined
Operations and Maintenance (O&M)
Solution as its core.
The Fabric Insight Refined
O&M Solution locates faults within
minutes through visualised
network status measurement and
management as well as Big Data
based intelligent analysis, helping
customers improve O&M efficiency
and lower O&M costs.
Software defined networking
(SDN) has become a common
choice for chief technology officers
(CTOs) of many enterprises,
as it helps these enterprises
implement fast service provisioning
and improve network resource
usage. After SDN services are
deployed, an originally operated
and maintained physical network
is divided into three networks:
service, logical, and physical.
However, traditional O&M methods
cannot monitor the status of the
service and logical networks. If an
application fault occurs, the fault
is difficult to locate. As a large
number of tenant services go online
and change frequently, networks
are dynamically adjusted and
network faults are difficult to locate
based on service configuration.
In addition, Huawei also launched
its 72 x 100GTb/s line cards and
the Huawei Security Solution tightly
coupled into a SDN Environment.
For further information visit:
www.huawei.com
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Nimble Storage predictive flash is now app centric
Nimble Storage has announced a comprehensive suite of features that are optimised around
fast and predictable application delivery.
The Nimble Predictive Flash platform allows IT to deliver applications confidently with
Quality of Service (QoS) and secure multi-tenancy across VMware, OpenStack, KVM and
now docker containers. With app centric management within InfoSight Predictive Analytics
businesses now have more visibility and control of application performance. App based
storage on demand provides a cloud-like pricing model where enterprises only pay for
the storage consumed by each application. This app centric approach provides greater
predictability and ease of management for applications across the enterprise.
Nimble Storage InfoSight VMVision gives customers clear visibility across the storageto-VM infrastructure stack. VMvision allows organisations to automatically identify noisy VM
neighbours by narrowing down the exact application that is draining resources from other
workloads. Where traditional storage based insights do not provide granular data for capacity
planning and forecasting, VMvision provides IT with app level capacity data for accurate
storage planning.
For further information visit: www.nimblestorage.com
SIEMON EXCEEDS ISO/IEC CLASS 2
CHANNEL REQUIREMENTS WITH TERA
Siemon has announced that its fully
shielded Tera end-to-end twisted-pair
copper cabling system exceeds the draft
class 2 requirements of ISO/IEC 11801-1
(Committee Draft N2483).
Class 2 channels and permanent links are
qualified up to 2GHz and constructed from
Category 8.2 connecting hardware, cables and
cords to meet future 25Gb/s (25GBase-T) and
40 Gb/s (40GBase-T) applications.
Third party test laboratory Intertek ETL
performed the electrical testing on a two
connector 30m Tera channel and verified
compliance to the draft ISO/IEC requirements. Not only did the testing verify compliance for all
parameters, including coupling attenuation, but the results clearly indicated headroom to draft
class 2 limits.
Utilising Tera’s quadrant-pair isolation technology, Siemon’s class 2 channel provides an endto-end cabling solution to support future 25GBase-T and 40GBase-T implementations in data
centre switch-to-server applications.
Class 2 twisted-pair cabling will share open and common specifications, which ensures
interoperability and backwards compatibility with the reach to support a much broader range of
architectures for switch-to-server connections, including switches placed in top of rack (ToR),
middle of row (MoR) and end of row (EoR) configurations.
For further information visit: www.siemon.com