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SDN meets the real world: implementation benefits and challenges

Jun

3

2014

This report underwritten by: Nuage Networks 1Executive Summary Software-defined networking (SDN) is an enabling technology shift that mimics for networking what server virtualization brought to data centers. From little more than a research project a decade or so ago, SDN has become one of the biggest trends in the data center, and for good reason. ...

Microsoft and Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure, hello cloud!

Nov

18

2013

The following post is from Satya Nadella, Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft. On Wednesday at Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) event in New York, I joined Cisco CEO John Chambers to announce an expanded partnership between our two companies. Microsoft and Cisco have a long history of collaborating to help customers address business and technology challenges. ...

Networking Without Limits: SDN

Nov

18

2013

After nearly 40 years of creating enterprise software, there are few companies who have come to appreciate the importance of infrastructure in the quite the way we have at Microsoft. We recognize that to host great software and great apps, you need an equally great infrastructure for your datacenter. At Microsoft, we create and deliver ...

Cisco-threatening open switch coming from Facebook, Intel, and Broadcom

Nov

13

2013

Facebook and friends try to replace proprietary network hardware. Cisco Nexus switches. pchow98 Six months ago, Facebook announced that its Open Compute Project (OCP) would develop a top-of-rack switch that could boot nearly any type of networking software. With the help of Intel, Broadcom, and others, the consortium devoted to open hardware specifications would develop a rival ...

Cisco SDN news: new switches now, a controller later, and Insieme comes home

Nov

11

2013

SUMMARY:Cisco spin-in Insieme comes back to the mother ship as the multi-front battle with SDN rivals VMware et al. roils on. Cisco CEO John Chambers traveled to New York City for Wednesday morning’s launch of new products key to Cisco’s SDN story and, oh, by the way, to announce that Cisco is bringing Insieme, the ...

Cisco Counters Its Young Competitors in Data Networking

Nov

11

2013

Cisco’s application-centric infrastructure includes software, services and partnerships meant to automate more of how software applications are deployed and run in both cloud computing systems and private data centers. Cisco Systems has announced its big play for the future of data networking, a multibillion-dollar business that holds the Internet together. It’s comprehensive, probably compelling for ...

Unconstrained data center networks for the cloud era

Oct

21

2013

SUMMARY: Nuage Networks makes network services as dynamically available as virtualized applications need them to be, in a programmable and automated multitenant infrastructure. By utilizing the key tenants of software-defined networks (SDN), Nuage Networks brings the power of NOW to data center networks everywhere. The value of cloud services lies in the rapid and cost-effective ...

IBM gets patent to battle cloud ‘noisy neighbor’ problem with SDN

Oct

11

2013

photo: Shutterstock / macka SUMMARY:IBM has been awarded a patent for moving virtual machines across physical servers in a cloud in order to ensure applications are receiving the bandwidth they need. It’s an interesting solution to a problem that has plagued some cloud users. Even ardent cloud computing users get frustrated at times, and one ...

Survey: SDN benefits unclear to enterprise network managers

Sep

27

2013

Organizations face many challenges as they work to manage and transition their data center networks to support emerging IT trends. Right now, the biggest impact on networking in the data center is the strong adoption of server virtualization; the networking industry has struggled to deliver products that rapidly, easily, and securely support the creation and ...

Juniper fast tracks Contrail SDN controller release

Sep

18

2013

Will be available roughly nine months ahead of schedule. Looking to accelerate its push into the burgeoning software-defined networking (SDN) space, Juniper Networks Monday announced the availability of its long-touted Contrail SDN controller, roughly nine months ahead of schedule. The controller, which is open standards-based and aimed specifically at virtualised- or software-defined networks, is currently ...