Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced a partnership with CERN openlab to help the world's largest and most respected center for scientific research develop a long-term software-defined networking (SDN) strategy for the New IP. Brocade has been named an official networking contributor member to CERN openlab, building on its previous relationship as a technology supplier to CERN.

Brocade meldt dat het partner is geworden van CERN Openlab, de publiek-private samenwerking die SDN-toepassingen ontwikkelt voor het kernfysica-instituut in Genève. De Large Hadron Collider (LHC) genereert een uitzonderlijk grote hoeveelheid data die moet worden doorgeleid naar onderzoekers over de hele wereld. Andere private partners van CERN zijn Huawei, Intel, Oracle, Siemens, Cisco, Rackspace, Seagate, IDT en Yandex.

SEAGATE HAS JOINED FORCES with HP and IBM in a bid to boost its position in the high-performance computing (HPC) market.

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