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Network Break 95: Cisco Trumpets Custom ASICs; DC Efficiency Yields Results
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2016-07-11 14:08:57
Description:

Take a Network Break! Cisco touts custom ASICs designed for the latest data center workloads, electricity consumption by U.S. data centers has plateaued, and the IEEE officially ratifies the 25Gbit Ethernet standard.

A container security startup gets a $10 million Series A investment, Cisco opens its ISR4000 and ASR1000 routers to third-party apps, and HPE rolls out a set of patches to fix OpenSSL vulnerabilities in multiple products.

Ride-share startup Uber has taken out a $1.15 billion dollar loan, Barracuda gets Wall Street props for a rise in subscription revenue, and Juniper gets downgraded by a financial analyst.

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Show Notes:

Berkeley Lab: Electricity Consumption in U.S. Data Centers Plateaus – CircleID

United States Data Center Energy Usage Report – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ethernet’s Expansion Continues Unabated With New Standards – Ethernet Alliance

Cisco Cloud Scale ASIC switches get a 2 year advantage over Merchant silicon switches – Cisco

Twistlock scoops up $10M to secure all the containers – Network World

First 3rd Party Application Running on an ISR – Cisco

KVM App Hosting on a Cisco Router – Cisco

HPE rushes out patch for more than a year of OpenSSL vulns – The Register

Support Communication – Support Bulletin – HPE

Uber Is Said to Close $1.15 Billion High-Yield Leveraged Loan – Bloomberg

Barracuda Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2017 Results – Barracuda Networks

Juniper slides as Deutsche pulls Buy rating – Seeking Alpha

 

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