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The Great SDN Divide

posted by Tracy Corbo | November 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Well I have spent days slogging through what I can find about SDN and the role management will play as we plan out our research calendar for the coming year. On the topic of management there is nothing. Management as always is going to be an after thought, period. There is still a huge gap...

Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Cisco Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, network virtualization, Nicira, Openflow Switching Protocol, SDN, VMware

Cisco Trades In ACE ADC for Citrix NetScaler

posted by Tracy Corbo | October 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

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In Barcelona, Spain at the Citrix Synergy conference, Cisco and Citrix announced an expansion of their current partnership, built around desktop virtualization, into three new areas including: cloud networking, cloud orchestration, and mobile workstyles. The expanded partnership will include a significant investment in people and resources to develop the technology, provide integration, and validation of...

Posted in Uncategorized Tags: ADC, Cisco, Citrix Systems, Cloud Computing, Load Balancer, Nicira, SDN, VMware

The Path to Network Virtualization

posted by Tracy Corbo | February 7, 2012 | 0 Comments

On September 6, Nicira, a startup network virtualization company, unveiled its Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). NVP is a software-based system that creates a distributed virtual network infrastructure in cloud data centers that is completely decoupled and independent from physical network hardware. Nicira has announced that well known entities such as AT&T, eBay, Fidelity Investments, NTT...

Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Embrane, network virtualization, Nicira, OpenFlow, SDN, software defined networking