In its latest salvo against Cisco Systems, HP launched its first network core switch to carry a lifetime warranty. The ProCurve Switch 8212zl is the first core switch built entirely on technology ...

The FINANCIAL — HP on February 19 announced a new line of open network switches for the data center that will provide Web scale organizations and service providers more flexibility and control of ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. has become the second major vendor to officially announce that it will resell Cisco Systems Inc.’s new line of Fibre Channel switches. Although the announcement is no surprise to ...

Hewlett-Packard this week is expected to announce its strategy for building enterprise LANs with emphasis on strong security and advanced services in edge devices and with less feature-laden 10G ...

In a quickly changing distributed data center environment where wholesale server consolidation is rapidly occurring and where storage capacity is out of control, IT administrators need to be able to ...

Have a new HP 2910al and the 2-port SFP+ module. When I plug in my generic SFP+ SR, the link light blinks, but the switch doesn't seem to detect it at all. Do I need HP-branded SFP+? Is something else ...

Right now we're 100% cisco. Out of the blue, management wants to look at hp switches. I'm beating my head against because until yesterday I thought we were going Cisco. Bear in mind, this is for an ...

HP last week positioned its two most recently introduced switches as a tag-team for building high-speed LANs. The switches are the ProCurve 3400cl and 6400cl series, announced separately at the end of ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. this week released two wiring closet switches that let users uplink with 10G Ethernet via fiber or copper links. The ProCurve 3400 series switches are fixed-configuration boxes ...

HP announced a new modular switch that it hopes will kick Layer 2 Cisco boxes out of enterprise wiring closets. The switch was introduced at NetWorld+Interop 2001 in Las Vegas. The ProCurve Switch ...