December 13, 2004
Worldwide enterprise router units shipments increased 10 percent and revenue totaled $918 million in 3Q04, down a percent from 2Q04, according to Infonetics Research's Enterprise Routers quarterly worldwide market share and forecast report. Revenue is projected to dip 4 percent to $3.8 billion between 2003 and 2004, and return to the 2003 level of $3.9 billion in 2007, with a 5-year CAGR of -1 percent.
"Cisco continues to dominate the router world quarter over quarter," said Infonetics Research's Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise voice and data. "The competition is introducing products up and down the enterprise router categories, offering end-users more choices and features at aggressive prices. Cisco faces the most competition in the low-end/SOHO categories, pressured by the commoditization of low-end routing and more sales channels."
Infonetics projects secure router categories to have slightly higher growth rates than standard router categories through 2007, increasing revenue from a 12 percent portion of the total router market in 2003 to 14 percent in 2007. Over time, more router vendors are likely to add security features into routers as a default offering, at no extra charge, causing the standard enterprise router category to disappear.
Enterprise Routers tracks wired broadband gateways and standard and secure high-end, mid-range, and low-end/SOHO routers. Forecasts and market share are updated quarterly and cover all regions (worldwide, North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific and CALA).
Companies tracked in this service include 3Com, ADTRAN, Allied Telesyn, Cisco, D-Link, Enterasys, Huawei, Juniper, Linksys, Lucent, NETGEAR, Nortel, Siemens, Tasman, Vanguard and others.
Researchers from the Suddhananda Engineering and Research Centre in Bhubaneswar, India developed a job scheduling system, which they call Service Level Agreement (SLA) scheduling, that is meant to achieve acceptable methods of resource provisioning similar to that of potential in-house systems. They combined that with an on-demand resource provisioner to ensure utilization optimization of virtual machines.
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Experimental scientific HPC applications are continually being moved to the cloud, as covered here in several capacities over the last couple of weeks. Included in that rundown, Co-founder and CEO of CloudSigma Robert Jenkins penned an article for HPC in the Cloud where he discussed the emergence of cloud technologies to supplement research capabilities of big scientific initiatives like CERN and ESA (the European Space Agency)...
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When considering moving excess or experimental HPC applications to a cloud environment, there will always be obstacles. Were that not the case, the cost effectiveness of cloud-based HPC would rule the high performance landscape. Jonathan Stewart Ward and Adam Barker of the University of St. Andrews produced an intriguing report on the state of cloud computing, paying a significant amount of attention to the problems facing cloud computing.
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center launched a public cloud system for universities in the area designed specifically to run on commodity hardware with high performance solid-state drives. The center, which currently holds 5.5 PB of raw storage, is open to educational and research users in the University of California.
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