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
Ellison Ditches OpenWorld Keynote For America's Cup
Oracle CEO's no-show disappoints conference attendees expecting to hear about the company's cloud services.
EMC CEO Talks Up The Software-Defined Data Center
Joe Tucci tells OpenWorld crowd how EMC plans to capitalize on cloud computing and big data trends.
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Blogs
Cisco Accelerates SDN Strategy with Dynamic Fabric Automation
July 02, 2013 04:52 PM
Posted by Greg Ferro
Cisco's Dynamic Fabric Automation integrates legacy physical networks with virtual devices. It's a sensible SDN strategy for a networking incumbent, but customers should wait until we know more about Insieme.
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SDN's Next Steps: Product Integration
July 01, 2013 02:42 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
SDN interoperability demonstrations and hackfests point to a small but growing movement toward product integration as software defined networking evolves.
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Cisco Announces New Nexus 7700 and Fabric Architecture
June 27, 2013 05:30 PM
Posted by Andrew Conry Murray
The new Cisco Nexus 7700 core switch is built for bandwidth, while Dynamic Fabric Automation aims to make data center networks more flexible and easier to configure.
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Cisco Insieme: It'll Do Stuff, But We Won't Tell You
June 26, 2013 11:09 AM
Posted by Andrew Conry Murray
A live Cisco Webcast about Insieme, a Cisco-backed venture, provided remarkably little detail about the startup or its forthcoming products.
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Network Management Needs New Ideas
June 21, 2013 02:07 PM
Posted by Joe Onisick
Traditional network management systems haven’t adapted to the scale demanded by virtualization and cloud architectures. Distributed system designs may show the way.
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Cumulus Brings the Red Hat Model to Networking
June 20, 2013 12:47 PM
Posted by Art Wittmann
Startup Cumulus Networks launches a Linux-based network operating system designed for low-cost hardware that puts programmability first.
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