Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2013

After all, if I can use a controller—there are numerous open source and proprietary controllers out there—to gain programmatic access to controlling individual flows within my data center, why do I need VLANs? However, it seems to me that this isn’t the real problem.

Load Balancer 108

Load Balancer Network HP Virtualization 108

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason! I didn’t think that OpenFlow itself was actually open source (even though there are multiple open source implementations of various OpenFlow products).

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60