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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OpenFlow Test Deployment Options
April 08, 2013 12:54 PM
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OpenFlow can be introduced into production networks in several ways. I’ll look at two options for deploying OpenFlow that network engineers can use to test the protocol and get their feet wet with SDN.
CloudStack Graduates to Top-Level Apache Project
April 03, 2013 01:15 PM
Posted by Joe Onisick
CloudStack, the open source software platform for private clouds, has been elevated to a top-level project in the Apache open source community, further validating the project's viability.
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New SDN Technology Challenges VMware, Cisco
April 02, 2013 11:50 AM
Posted by Greg Ferro
A new SDN competitor is challenging VMware, Cisco and others. Nuage Networks, an Alcatel-Lucent venture, has announced Virtualized Service Platform (VSP), an SDN technology that employs virtual switches and network overlays.
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In IT, Everything Old Is New Again
March 27, 2013 03:42 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Software-defined storage? Old news. Non-volatile memory? Same deal. Rogue business units that get around IT with a credit card and outside resources? I was doing it long before SaaS showed up.
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IBM Pulse 2013: Lessons Learned
March 27, 2013 10:15 AM
Posted by David Hill
Three compelling themes emerged from IBM’s annual gathering: the continued diffusion of the data center, the need for open cloud standards and the rise of data-driven IT intelligence.
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How APIs Transform Data Center Management
March 26, 2013 11:52 AM
Posted by Joe Onisick
APIs are helping to usher in new mechanisms for making data center management more automated and scalable. They’re also key to network virtualization and private clouds.
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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.
