Emerson shows off its wares in Australia

Emerson Network Power opened a live 125 sq m live data center demonstration facility in Sydney, Australia this month.

The data center power and servers the Emerson Network Power operations in Australia and New Zealand showcasing a range of Emersion infrastructure products, from its enterprise to its telecommunications and small business solutions.

Emerson said it hopes to win over customers with this approach, offering a real-time view of its working products, and better highlighting customisable options for the data center, and real-life scenarios such as a total power outage.

The center itself took 18 months to build and has a backup capacity of 60k VA UPS units oepating in a dual bus configuration and features a cooling capacity of 30KW per rack using Liebert XD.

Japanese Internet company turns to Juniper for switches

Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) said it is using Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches in its data centers for its IIJ GIO cloud services.

IIJ said the switches allowed it to build the networking component of virtualized service platform using a simplified two-layer model at a reduce cost.

Using Juniper's Junos single-source operating system, IIJ can now streamline its cloud service provisioning, allowing speedy access (in 15 minutes) to a customer's selected environments as soon as internet contracts are completed.

Cisco puts new focus on Greater China

Cisco is intensifying its focus on China, setting up a new Great China operation in Beijing, separating the nation form its broader Asia Pacific offices.

Cisco Greater China will be led by Owen Chan (as president and CEO), who ran the Asia Pacific region as President since 1999.

Edzard Overbeek, president of Japan, will now also oversee Asia Pacific.

Greater China will cover China PRC as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan, regions Cisco says are growing in importance due to healthy economies.

Cisco said that Asia Pacific and Greater China make up 15 percent of the companies worldwide revenue.