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Cisco has introduced a new Fibre Channel fabric switch to better connect virtualised servers to all-flash arrays, seeing a rise in back-end array connection port-counts and speed needed to satisfy all-flash array IO demands.It’s also bumped up its mainframe FICON connect speed and spread 40GbitE support across its Nexus switches.
Read on, source: Cisco strengthens its hardware-defined networking products • The Register
The University of London Computer Centre fell victim to a cyber-attack on Thursday.The assault left Moodle – an open-source learning platform – out of action for several hours on Thursday morning before normal service was restored.Technicians initially estimated problems were down to firewall configuration issues, before realising actual humans were behind the problem, as status messages on the ULCC website explain.All our services are now up and running again! The networking issue was caused by a cyber-attack.We have taken action to block the source. An incident report will be produced and shared in due course.
Read on, source: DDoS attack downs University of London learning platform • The Register
Huawei intends to hop into bed with nearly 50 per cent more partners this year in order to boost its sluggish enterprise sales in Europe.”Last year we had over 700 partners (Of all types) in Western Europe — the target for 2015 is to increase that number to 1,000,” said Leon He, head of the enterprise biz in Western Europe.”This year we have made fast progress on the number and quality of partners,” he told The Register at Huawei’s Networking Conference 2015.
Read on, source: Huawei peels back the covers in pursuit of partner love • The Register
Sometimes, things don’t go according to plan. Both AMD and Nvidia were supposed to have shifted to 20nm graphics chips by now. In theory, that gets you lower temperatures, higher clock speeds, and less noise. Instead, the Taiwanese company that actually manufactures most of AMD and Nvidia’s GPUs has been struggling to get its 20nm technology rolling. The result? The whole PC graphics industry remains stuck at 28nm.
Read on, source: Mighty Maxwell Video Card Roundup – Maximum PC