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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

According to Martin, the term SDN originally referred to a change in the network architecture to include a) decoupling the distribution model of the control plane from the data plane; and b) generalized rather than fixed function forwarding hardware. What about virtualized load balancers? What about NX-OS, JUNOS, or EOS?

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Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

By: Jason Verge July 23rd, 2013. There’s a lot of business intelligence and data warehousing that require a lot of horsepower, as well as application/web servers and other applications dedicated to handling massive email volumes. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013. One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc.

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IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design

Scott Lowe

Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). ONP fits into this picture by performing VTEP functions in hardware (at line rate). Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services.

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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

By: Industry Perspectives July 17th, 2013. He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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VMworld 2013 – Keynote Day 2 – NSX, vCAC, vSAN

Virtualized Greek

The ability to virtualize the network devices such as firewalls, IPS and load balancers also means that these once physical devices that have discrete interfaces can be controlled by software. The question is if IT has the ability to implement and support a physical data center let alone a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).

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