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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

Clearly there are some real benefits to using OpenFlow in certain use cases (here’s one example ), but that doesn’t mean OpenFlow—especially hop-by-hop OpenFlow, where OpenFlow is involved at every “hop” of the packet forwarding process throughout the network—is the right solution for all environments.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. We all know that large software and platform vendors (think: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Symantec, Citrix, CA, IBM, HP etc.)