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Enterprises opt for different microsegmentation architectures

Network World

We asked three enterprises to share why they deployed microsegmentation technology in their networks and how it's working. Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX. Here are their stories. Todd Pugh, CIO at food products manufacturer SugarCreek , manages a fully virtualized private data center.

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s the kind of challenge few, if any, enterprises can take on without a partner today, analysts contend. Instead, Koch’s engineering team set about virtualizing the physical transports to build the SD-LAN and firewall within the cloud rather than in the data center. Laying the foundation. There is a talent war going on,” Hoag says.

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Technology Short Take #70

Scott Lowe

Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? VMware recently announced Open Hardware Management Services (OHMS) , a project intended to help manage servers and switches in a software-defined data center (SDDC) context. Rajdeep Dua has written an overview of the architecture of SwarmKit.

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Technology Short Take #35

Scott Lowe

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. I found a few articles by fellow VCDX Josh Odgers that discuss the impact of Nutanix’s converged architecture on vSphere designs.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast. My purpose, as John put it when he invited me, was to “gently introduce” the community to the idea of network virtualization, which is where I now spend most of my time since joining VMware in early February. Or virtualized firewalls?

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Very Early Thoughts about EMC ViPR

Scott Lowe

Although I used to work at EMC before I joined VMware earlier this year , I never really had deep access to what was going on with this project, so my thoughts here are strictly based on what’s been publicly disclosed. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization

Scott Lowe

Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions. Verplanke next reviews some of the I/O optimizations and architecture of the Xeon E5 2600 series platform.