Jim Duffy

Former Nortel executive becomes the Ethernet switch maker's third chief in a year following layoffs

FcoE module removes need for two adapters to allow physical and virtual servers to access networking and storage resources. Also, more TippingPoint products

Financial services companies, where a few miliseconds of latency can mean a competitive advantage, and those who need high-bandwidth video or imaging will be early adoptersrn

Companies team for Fibre Channel devices that will improve server and SAN connectivity. An industry analyst says it's good for Brocade

Enterprise switch, router products, share gains promising; but 'Stratus' needs to emerge, analysts say. Juniper seeks to make more headway by addressing what it sees as a need for new network architecture optimized for virtualized data centres

Company says new architecture can dramatically increase performance, operational time and cost by eliminating to need to acquire additional products to boost performancern

Most switching vendors are silent on when and in what configurations they'll ship 40G Ethernet products. There are a number of reasons why, including a standard that hasn't been finalizedrn

The 10-year-old protocol still doesn't get respect. But if you have it in your network, experts say, its just as capable of converging or unifying data center servers, storage and networking as Fibre Channel over Ethernetrnrn