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Technology Short Take #44

Scott Lowe

Networking. To help resolve this issue, Cumulus Networks (and possibly Metacloud, I’m not sure of their involvement yet) has release an open source project called vxfld. I’d love to hear from more networking pros (please disclose company affiliations) about their thoughts on this matter.

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Technology Short Take #35

Scott Lowe

Networking. Cisco shared some thoughts on what they termed a “software-only” approach; naturally, they have a different vision for data center networking (and that’s OK). I found this write-up on using OVS port mirroring with Security Onion for intrusion detection and network security monitoring.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

So the number of companies that really understand the network topology, the data center construction, the server requirements to build this public cloud infrastructure is very, very small.” If they ran Linux, maybe they wouldn’t have to run so many servers. Networking. Disaster Recovery.