CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software 194

Software Software Data Center Hardware 194

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Delivers 1000s Virtual NICs for Ultimate Scalability with the Lowest Possible Latency. Other capabilities include: Hardware Based Packet Telemetry. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock). Unique hardware filter tables for each adapter hosted IP address. Marty Meehan. The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

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. Reading these early OpenFlow meeting notes (via Brent Salisbury, aka @networkstatic on Twitter) was very fascinating. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. Virtualization has its own set of problems and we need to have a talk….

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Numerous IT management tools are available today for use with the cloud, but the rubber meets the road at the level of the application because this is what a user will actually “use.” 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

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

The ability to virtualize the network devices such as firewalls, IPS and load balancers also means that these once physical devices that have discrete interfaces can be controlled by software. VMware is of course pushing their virtual SAN solution (vSAN) to provision and control storage. Single Pane of Glass.

Vmware 58

Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58