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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

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. Marty Meehan.

Software 194
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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. To compare network virtualization to SDN, we must first define SDN.

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

Delivers 1000s Virtual NICs for Ultimate Scalability with the Lowest Possible Latency. It allows organizations the flexibility to develop and implement applications without having to modify their applications or networks. specification, with the addition of NC-SI (Network Controller Sideband Interface) manageability.

Software 151
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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

GeekWire

Jeff Hussey, CEO and co-founder of Tempered Networks, and his wife on a trip to Austria. Jeff Hussey , co-founder and CEO of Seattle’s Tempered Networks, is not a believer in long-term work-from-home practices. “We Photo courtesy of Jeff Hussey). That’s a value proposition you can derive a semi through,” he said. Jeff Hussey.

Network 116
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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and.

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Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World

Galido

This tool automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications on a cluster of servers (virtual or bare metal). On top of that, the tool also allows users to automatically handle networking, storage, logs, alerting, and many other things related to containers. Traffic routing and load balancing.

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

Clearly there are some real benefits to using OpenFlow in certain use cases (here’s one example ), but that doesn’t mean OpenFlow—especially hop-by-hop OpenFlow, where OpenFlow is involved at every “hop” of the packet forwarding process throughout the network—is the right solution for all environments.