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Getting Smart About Software-Defined Networks

June 7, 2019 Sponsored Content from Mellanox 0

More and more of the networking that is done in the datacenter is performed on software-defined networking whiteboxes rather than on proprietary black box machinery that was controlled by one supplier. …

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Delivering On The Promise Of Network Function Virtualization

November 1, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

People have been talking about software defined networking and its related network function virtualization for so long that it must appear to many organizations that everyone else is doing it. …

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HPE Buys Its Way Into Virtual Networking With Plexxi

May 15, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 0

It is safe to say that companies that have traditionally built server, storage, and switch hardware have had a tough time finding their place in a world that is increasingly allergic to appliances and wants everything to come as software that customers have more control over. …

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Juniper Flips OpenContrail To The Linux Foundation

December 15, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 0

It’s a familiar story arc for open source efforts started by vendors or vendor-led industry consortiums. …

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Getting With The Program On Software Defined Networks

October 17, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

If the profit margins are under pressure among the switch and router makers of the world, their chief financial officers can probably place a lot of the blame on Nick McKeown and his several partners throughout the years. …

Cloud

The Walls Come Down On The Last Bastion Of Proprietary

June 14, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Open source software has done a lot to transform the IT industry, but perhaps more than anything else it has reminded those who architect complex systems that all elements of a datacenter have to be equally open and programmable for them to make the customizations that are necessary to run specific workloads efficiently and therefore cost effectively. …

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Tricking Out OpenStack To Scale It Out

January 13, 2016 Nand Mulchandani 1

The recent OpenStack Tokyo event offered a view of the growth and maturation of this vital open source cloud technology. …

Cloud

Software Defined Networking Is Crossing The Chasm

November 30, 2015 Kyle Forster 1

It has been almost six years since the founders of Big Switch Networks started sitting in the research group meetings at Stanford University, which served as the birthplace for software-defined networking, and times have certainly changed. …

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Bringing Hyperscale SDN Lessons Down To Enterprises

June 23, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Everything seems to be easier for the hyperscalers than it is for large enterprises, but it is just an illusion created by the confluence of some of the best minds in IT with a whole lot of money. …

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There Is More Than One Route To SDN Switching

June 10, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Software defined networking means different things to a lot of people, and the strictest meaning and most open (in terms of open source) variant of SDN will not necessarily – or easily – vanquish quasi-proprietary variants of SDN from the datacenter. …

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