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VMworld 2013 – Network Virtualization: Moving Beyond the Obvious (My Notes)

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Speaker: Martin Casado (VMware Networking CTO). NSX is basically a network hypervisor similar to how ESXi is a server hypervisor. So, NSX would sit on top of the physical network, which would give you the same capability to provision extremely complex virtual networks from Layer 2 to 7. Operations.

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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. Depending on network connectivity, I may or may not be able to update this post in real-time. Supposedly there are more than 22,000 people in attendance at VMworld 2013, making it—according to Carl—the largest IT infrastructure event.

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

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Monday, March 25, 2013. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. Balancing these. ▼ 2013. (10). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. cloud only helps to a point. Mobility.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

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It provides customers with visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns—including metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. Similarly, Egeneras PAN Manager approach dynamically load-balances networking traffic between newly-created instances of an App.

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How does your SaaS vendor respond to the scalability question.

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 How do they manage network operations? ► 2013. (21). and business transformation. Older Post.

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Technology Short Take #25

Scott Lowe

Networking. I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post.

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