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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

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Seagate Kinetic Cloud and Object Storage I/O platform (and Ethernet HDD)

Storage IO Blog

Seagate Kinetic Cloud and Object Storage I/O platform Seagate announced today their Kinetic platform and drive designed for use by object API accessed storage including for cloud deployments.

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Wrapping libvirt Virtual Networks Around Open vSwitch Fake Bridges

Scott Lowe

In this article, I show you how to wrap a libvirt virtual network around your OVS fake bridge. You might ask, “Why wrap a libvirt virtual network around an OVS fake bridge when you can just use the OVS bridge directly?” Next, create an XML definition for a libvirt virtual network. Using VLANs with OVS and libvirt.

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Salesforce debuts Zero Copy Partner Network to ease data integration

CIO Business Intelligence

The zero-copy pattern helps customers map the data from external platforms into the Salesforce metadata model, providing a virtual object definition for that object. “It Zero-copy integration means teams access data where it lives, through queries or by virtually accessing the file. You can do flows and automations on it.

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Microsoft Azure Software Defined Data Infrastructure Reference Resources

Storage IO Blog

Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads? Microsoft Azure has an architecture and resources page (here) that includes various application workload reference tools.

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I/O, I/O how well do you know about good or bad server and storage I/Os?

Storage IO Blog

find and fix) vs. simply move or mask data center and server storage I/O bottlenecks. There are many approaches to address (e.g. Having insight and awareness into how your environment along with applications is important to know to focus resources.

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IDF 2013: Enabling NFV/SDN with Intel ONP Server Reference Design

Scott Lowe

This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” This session is slightly related to IDF 2013 session COMS0002 , which focused more on the Intel ONP Switch reference design.

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