Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

I’ll get to the definition of SDN in just a moment, but first let’s look at the definition of network virtualization. ” These definitions are, in my humble opinion, reasonably precise and accurate. .” ” These definitions are, in my humble opinion, reasonably precise and accurate.

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Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Ask some CTO’s about how their product scales and they’ll whip out a logical diagram showing you redundant networks, redundant firewalls, load balancers, clustered application servers, redundant databases, and SAN storage. You’ll definitely want to be evaluating their leadership and their business plan.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Agile Software Development Big Data 100

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. He postulates that, as more and more aspects of the data center fall under virtualization (network virtualization, storage virtualization, etc.)

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60