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Technology Short Take #78

Scott Lowe

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Mircea Ulinic has a nice article describing the combination of NAPALM and Salt for network automation.

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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

This one is a bit older (refers to NSX 6.1 If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Now, on to the content! Networking.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

According to Martin, the term SDN originally referred to a change in the network architecture to include a) decoupling the distribution model of the control plane from the data plane; and b) generalized rather than fixed function forwarding hardware. What about virtualized load balancers? Or virtualized firewalls?

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Technology Short Take 95

Scott Lowe

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Nevertheless, I have persevered in order to deliver you this list of links and articles. I hope it proves useful! Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

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IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design

Scott Lowe

This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). First, though, Recep takes a few minutes to review some SDN concepts.

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The parallel universe of computing: How multiple tasks happen simultaneously?

Dataconomy

Parallel processing refers to the use of multiple processors or cores in a computing system to perform multiple operations simultaneously. To address scalability problems, parallel processing systems use load balancing algorithms to distribute tasks evenly among processors and ensure optimal performance.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

Fountainhead

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.