Archive for January 28th, 2008
On Monday, Cisco announced a new family of switching platforms to meet consumer demands for next-generation data centers.As the data center transitions to a services-centric model, the network plays a pivotal role in allocating virtual IT resources and scaling workloads. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed with this environment in mind, the company said, and it delivers the infrastructure 
chapter of Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 vision.
“This is Cisco’s biggest product announcement since CRS-1. When Cisco released CRS-1 they redefined routing and came out with a product on the order of magnitude bigger than anything that was available,” said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president of Enterprise Research at Yankee Group. “We may look at this as the day Cisco’s whole ecosystem strategy changed.”
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January 28th, 2008
On Monday, Cisco announced a new family of switching platforms to meet consumer demands for next-generation data centers.As the data center transitions to a services-centric model, the network plays a pivotal role in allocating virtual IT resources and scaling workloads. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed with this environment in mind, the company said, and it delivers the infrastructure chapter of Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 vision.
“This is Cisco’s biggest product announcement since CRS-1. When Cisco released CRS-1 they redefined routing and came out with a product on the order of magnitude bigger than anything that was available,” said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president of Enterprise Research at Yankee Group. “We may look at this as the day Cisco’s whole ecosystem strategy changed.”
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January 28th, 2008
On Sunday, Amazon.com announced plans to extend its MP3 music stores free of digital-rights management (DRM) worldwide.Amazon’s MP3 stores feature songs playable on virtually any digital-music device. It is the only retailer to offer customers DRM-free MP3s from all four major music labels as well as more than 33,000 independent labels.
“We have received thousands of e-mails from Amazon customers around the world asking us when we will make Amazon MP3 available outside of the U.S.,” Bill Carr, Amazon.com vice president of digital music, said. The company did not set a specific timeline for the change.
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January 28th, 2008
