Accept that the cloud is now part of the data center and needs to be incorporated in a low-latency mesh that supports modern applications.

In many data centers, organic growth had left them broken up into application silos. The standard three-tier architecture was copied for each application leading to a fairly hierarchical network.

According to Jim Dooling, president and CEO of Align, and Tom Weber, managing director of Data Center Solutions at Align, the first step should be having a complete understanding of the network ...

The emergence of a two-tiered data-center network architecture is necessary for organizations maintaining a large portfolio of applications.

Base stations transfer data to those local (or edge) facilities via wired wide area network (WAN) switches (or wireless mesh architectures in some cases) with local data centers then connected to ...

When we look at the data center architects who are leading the key trends in networking — SDN software and bare-metal hardware — they tend to be those who have embraced the core and pod mindset.

It will combine an advanced, AI-native, hardware-accelerated, distributed security architecture directly within the data center fabric to: Provide security that's melted into the data center network.

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CISCO LIVE -- Today, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced a family of data center Smart Switches, disrupting traditional data center network design by enabling ...

The new data center network architecture, which combines the EX 4200 virtual chassis switch, the SRX security solution, the EX 8200 data center switch for 10 Gigabit Ethernet and the MX Ethernet ...