Savvis has also announced that the Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000 Series networking switches will serve as the virtualized network backbone for Savvis' new product.
With a couple of exceptions what they saw were not objects but ideas — some funny and entertaining, some deadly serious — situated at the fertile nexus where social networking and the Web's data-gathering power is providing artists and scientists with immense piles of raw material about society and psychology.
"He also introduced me to a networking group that's all about the nexus of advertising and technology".
These businesses "like our model, since they don't have to get into the messy details of networking," said Tom Edsall, a former Cisco fellow who worked closely on the Nexus before joining Insieme.
Cisco's unified computing platform including the Nexus switch it released in February 2008 and combined system of servers, networking and storage it unveiled in March is likely to help the company gain a wider share of the shrinking enterprise networking market, Zabitsky argues.
But Google Plus, the all but unused social-networking service that came after Facebook and Twitter, was a misstep, as was the Nexus Q, the discontinued media player that followed Apple TV and Roku.
He said it also placed him squarely at the nexus of China, Indonesia and India, three of the world's largest populations, where the effects of social networking are just being felt.
FiftyThree is located in the historic Western Union building, which was a nexus for communications back in the days of the telegraph and continues to be a key networking hub for the Internet today.
In a statement, Megret says Poken is "at the nexus of the mobile and events spheres, with unique capabilities relating to NFC, RFID and Social Networking" and that it foresees huge growth for the fledgling company.
