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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.

 

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F5 Acquires SDN Startup LineRate Systems

News roundup: F5's LineRate Systems acquisition targets data center programmability, scalability; Dell launches a new switch and rolls out OpenFlow support; CA simplifies IAM offerings; Veeam offers VM backup up to 15 cloud providers.

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News roundup: Opscode updates Private Chef automation software; AirWatch and ForeScout team up for mobile security; WatchGuard unveils seven XTM appliances; HP gets agile.

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Cisco’s Spending Spree: An Analysis

December 06, 2012 07:07 AM
Posted by Greg Ferro

This November Cisco bought three companies in the space of about 10 days. I’ll examine whether these purchases are part of a larger strategic move, or simply the result of internal competition among Cisco’s business units.

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Tags: Cisco Systems, Cariden, Cloupia, Meraki, orchestration, SDN, WLAN, cloud

Channel: Virtualization, Wireless, Public Cloud, Data Center, Cloud Computing, Networking & Mgmt, Private Cloud

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Silver Peak, F5 Put Virtual Appliances in Amazon Cloud

December 04, 2012 07:10 AM
Posted by Michael Biddick

Many networking vendors offer virtualized appliances that can run in a hypervisor. Now more vendors moving those appliances into public clouds.

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Tags: Silver Peak, F5, Riverbed, virtual appliances, AWS, Amazon, cloud

Channel: Networking & Mgmt, Private Cloud, Next Gen Network, WAN & App Acceleration, Public Cloud, Virtualization

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Why We Need Network Abstraction

November 26, 2012 03:16 PM
Posted by Joe Onisick

Highly virtualized data centers are exposing cracks in traditional network constructs such as VLANs. New approaches that abstract the physical network, including network overlays, are key to providing flexibility and scale.

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Tags: VLAN, QoS, VXLAN, network virtualization, OpenFlow, SDN

Channel: Virtualization, Next Gen Network, Public Cloud, Data Center, Private Cloud, Cloud Computing

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Intel On The Wrong Side Of Moore's Law

November 20, 2012 03:30 PM
Posted by Art Wittmann

ARM's stellar performance provides a hint at what Intel must do in the next decade to stay ahead in the chip business.

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Tags: Intel, Paul Otellini, CEO, ARM, mobile, chip, chips, VMware, Dell, ARM Holdings, Texas Instruments

Channel: Servers & Storage, Public Cloud, Cloud Computing, Private Cloud, Next Gen Network

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SDN Is Business, OpenFlow Is Technology

November 15, 2012 06:14 PM
Posted by Greg Ferro

Software-defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow aren’t the same thing. We’ll clarify the technical differences and discuss a more important distinction: SDN emphasizes applications that drive network usability and business requirements, while OpenFlow is a technology to link an SDN controller and network devices.

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Tags: SDN, OpenFlow, software defined networking, ONF, Big Switch Networks, Cisco, HP, IBM, controller, switch, virtual switch, Open vSwitch

Channel: Virtualization, Networking & Mgmt, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Data Center, Next Gen Network

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Packets Are the Past, Flows Are the Future

November 14, 2012 04:25 PM
Posted by Greg Ferro

Networking has focused for years on speeds and feeds: how many packets you can handle and how many ports per device. But hosts and applications work with flows, which will force the network to adapt. Here’s why.

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Tags: networking, packets, flows, SDN, OpenFlow, Greg Ferro, software defined networking, virtualization

Channel: Private Cloud, Networking & Mgmt, Data Center

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