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Michael is an ICT coordinator for developing countries, specifically in Africa. He assesses the viability of implementing technologies in rural areas where there is minimal infrastructure available. The goal is to put systems in place that can sustain themselves with solar, wind and other forms of energy for wireless Internet if the infrastructure allows it and satellite Internet if the funding permits it. Michael also writes about ICT for local and international NGO’s and spends his free time as a playwright and an aspiring Photoshop enthusiast.
 

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05/20/2015 Nexenta Announces General Availability of NexentaEdge
05/18/2015 Cloudera to Provide PCTEL with Next Generation Network Analytics
05/07/2015 Microsoft Announces New Cloud Capabilities at Ignite
05/05/2015 The Acquisition of Eight Data Centers Extends vXchnge's Presence in North America to 15 Markets
04/27/2015 Violin Memory Selects QLogic Fibre Channel Technology
04/15/2015 New Industry Alliance to Bring 25Gb, 50Gb and 100Gb Ethernet Technology Standards
04/01/2015 CALIENT to Virtualize Data Center Pods With its New LightConnect Fabric Manager Software
03/23/2015 Qorvo Expands its High Performance Optical Products
03/17/2015 Compuverde to Support Web-scale, Hyperconverged and Hyperscale Storage Architectures
03/11/2015 Intel Announces the First 14nm Intel Xeon SoC to Address Growing Networks
02/19/2015 GridGain Releases Version 7.0 of In-Memory Data Fabric Enterprise Edition
02/11/2015 Radware Report Reveals Role of ADC in Enterprise Security
02/03/2015 NovaStor Looks to Contribute in Innovation of Data Centers by Joining ECA
01/12/2015 Citrix's Acquisition of Sanbolic to Help Scale More Efficiently Globally
12/10/2014 GlobeNet Improves Connectivity in Americas with Infinera DTN-X
11/03/2014 Joyent Raises $15M to Further Develop Docker Application Containers







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Highlights From Interop Las Vegas 2015

s you may already know from reading Bill's recent post, several members of the Fiber Mountain team recently made the cross-country journey from Cheshire, Connecticut, to Interop, taking place in Las Vegas. I was looking forward to this year's show as much as any I can remember, due in part to our nomination for a Best of Interop Award, and because of the announcements we planned to make.

Reflections from an Interop Veteran and Alum

When I returned to the Fiber Mountain™ offices in Connecticut after exhibiting at Interop Las Vegas 2015, I couldn't help but think about how much the event has evolved through the years. I have been attending this seminal IT and networking conference since its inception in 1986 when it was called the TCP/IP Vendor Workshop, focused on interoperability of various TCP/IP program stacks.

What Fiber Mountain's Interop Recognition Means for Our Industry

When Fiber Mountain™ began its journey with a launch at Interop New York last fall, we certainly believed that we had a solution that would make a significant impact in the data center space.

What On-Board Optics Means for Density and Flexibility

This past week I read an article in Lightwave Magazine and another in Network World about the formation of the Consortium for On-board Optics (COBO), a group that seeks to create specifications and increase the faceplate density of data center switches and adapters.

Scaling Hyperscale in an Age of Exponential Growth and Virtualization

Over the past several years server, network, storage and application virtualization has revolutionized the way hyperscale data centers are built by consolidating workloads. The trend has simplified network architecture significantly and resulted in huge cost savings as well.

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