Press Releases

July 16, 2013

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- July 16, 2013 --Arista Networks today announced the appointment of two additional independent board members to Arista’s existing board of directors, Charles Giancarlo and Ann Mather.

June 3, 2013

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- June 3, 2013-- Arista today announced full support for Microsoft Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) across all Arista platforms through Arista EOS (extensible operating system) software version 4.12. This expands Arista’s offerings in Software Defined Networking (SDN) by continuing to provide the broadest set of interfaces to management platforms for open programmability and orchestration.

May 8, 2013

Las Vegas, NV, May 8, 2013 – Arista Networks was named the Best of Interop 2013 winner and the Arista 7500E Modular Data Center Ethernet Switch has won both the Grand Prize and the Networking category, recognizing innovation and technological advancements. This is the second Interop award for Arista’s flagship 7500 Series, originally selected as Best of Interop in 2010.

May 1, 2013

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 1, 2013 – Arista Networks today announced significant enhancements to its flagship Arista 7500 modular switching platform that enables Cloud Networks to scale to over 100,000 servers and millions of virtual machines while delivering the first network architecture that can concurrently support Cloud, Big Data, Storage, Web2.0, and Virtualization. With the fully programmable Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System) software, customers can now achieve the level of automation necessary to build true Software Defined Networks.

April 8, 2013

Las Vegas, NV- April 8, 2013 –– Arista Networks today announced that EditShare, Inc. will incorporate Arista 7050T-52, 10GBASE-T, low-latency switches for its networked shared storage architecture and collaborative editing solutions. The combination of Arista and EditShare enables unprecedented agility and collaboration across tapeless, end-to-end workflows in post-production, TV and film industries.

March 27, 2013

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 27, 2013 – Arista Networks today announced the next phase of its Software Defined Networking (SDN) offerings by integrating Arista EOS™ (Extensible Operating System) natively with OpenStack, the leading open-source cloud provisioning and orchestration system. Arista EOS is also delivering enhanced OpenFlow extensions via direct flow based configuration interfaces and data-plane programmability. This combined with Arista’s programmatic interfaces showcases a broad array of multi-vendor network monitoring and cloud integration with technology partners such as NEC, NetScout Systems, Palo Alto Networks, SolarWinds, Splunk, Big Switch, Cloudera, Cloudscaling, Corvil and ExtraHop Networks.

February 13, 2013

SANTA CLARA, Calif., February 13, 2013 – Arista Networks today announced new EOS (Extensible Operating System) capabilities for advanced data analysis for the SDN (Software Defined Networking) market. Arista’s data analyzer, named Arista DANZ, brings an advanced suite of TAP Aggregation functions integrated into the Arista 7000 series, providing IT departments the data they need at a fraction of the cost of competitive solutions.

January 30, 2013

SANTA CLARA, Calif., January 30, 2013— Arista Networks today announced that its Arista 7050 Series switches have achieved quality assurance and certification for Rackspace Private Cloud. The Arista 7050 Series enables wire speed, 10 GbE and 40 GbE switching, powered by Arista (Extensible Operating System) EOS for software defined networking applications. As a part of The Rackspace Open Cloud™ platform, the company launched the Rackspace Private Cloud Software in August 2012, with thousands of organizations in over 125 countries spanning all continents downloading the product.