While some industry analysts claim that private clouds don't make economic sense for many organizations due to the capital and operational costs to build one, they fail to take into account that IT departments have already sunk those costs into IT. Nor do they consider the different goals organizations have for private clouds. They don't need elastic scale. They need more efficient use of resources and operations. That's where private clouds come in with a focus on efficient use of recourses and orchestrated IT.
News and Analysis
Knowledge Is Key When Implementing SDN
Companies must confront security concerns and vendor hype when planning and adopting software-defined networking.
Integrated Systems Poised for Astonishing Growth
IDC says sales of integrated infrastructure—pre-configured bundles of compute, networking and storage—will total $3 billion in 2013 and grow 50% a year over the next half decade.
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Blogs
Fusion-io Leaders Step Down in Executive-Suite Turmoil
May 16, 2013 12:46 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Fusion-io CEO David Flynn and CMO Rick White have departed the flash memory company just weeks after acquiring NexGen Storage, a startup. Reports say Fusion-io's board wasn't satisfied with revenue growth.
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EMC ViPR Goes All In on Software-Defined Storage
May 06, 2013 02:01 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
EMC's ViPR, a new software-defined storage platform, is a big bet on virtualized storage services. ViPR borrows from the SDN playbook with a controller and APIs.
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Merchant Silicon About to Get Smarter
April 18, 2013 07:51 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
The march to SDN designs has led many to think we're entering an era of dumb switches. Instead, look for the commodity silicon to get a lot smarter.
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Cisco and OpenDaylight: The SDN Application Land Grab
April 11, 2013 09:20 PM
Posted by Andrew Conry Murray
Cisco is using the open source OpenDaylight initiative to spur application development to make its own SDN platform more valuable.
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How To Set Up Floodlight and Test OpenFlow Rules
April 09, 2013 12:50 PM
Posted by Brent Salisbury
Floodlight is an open source controller for SDN. Here’s how to set it up to use with OpenFlow-enabled switches for testing and development.
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HP Launches Moonshot: Little Servers for Big Applications
April 09, 2013 11:14 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
HP's Moonshot offers high-density, low-power servers that are ideal for hyperscale data centers, but don't expect them to unseat virtualized servers and blades in the enterprise.
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VXLAN termination on physical devices
VXLAN is an Experimental IETF draft of protocols to enable the creation of a large overlay, multi-tenant network.
ONF Deadly Serious About OpenFlow-Based SDNs
: OpenFlow is poised to reach over-hyped status, yet there are practical, useful reasons for keeping an eye on Openflow. The biggest cloud players are involved and driving the feature creation.
Practical Introduction to Applied OpenFlow
Get a primer on the Openflow protocol and what it can do for networking.
On Resilience of Spit-Architecture Networks
This research papers investigates the practical issues in split-architecture networks and the placement of the controllers, such as Openflow controllers, in the network.
