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HP Predicts Significant SDN Adoption By 2015

October 02, 2013 01:20 PM
HP networking chief Bethany Mayer talked with Network Computing about the company’s SDN strategy and SDN's impact on IT.

HP Bets On SDN Apps With SDK, App Store

September 30, 2013 11:02 AM
HP is releasing a software development kit to spur the creation of SDN applications for HP's SDN platform. The company also plans to launch an SDN app store next year.

EMC ViPR Goes All In on Software-Defined Storage

May 06, 2013 02:01 PM
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.

Cisco and OpenDaylight: The SDN Application Land Grab

April 11, 2013 09:20 PM
Cisco is using the open source OpenDaylight initiative to spur application development to make its own SDN platform more valuable.

Citrix Says NetScaler's Future Is SDN

October 04, 2012 08:00 AM
The company announced plans for a next-generation application delivery controller that will interoperate with SDN controllers to speed application deployment.

Cisco's Answer to SDN: Open Network Environment

June 13, 2012 12:32 PM
Cisco introduces Open Network Environment, its take on software-defined networking, at Cisco Live. Learn how it's approaching SDN.

Nimbula Enhances, Adds Features In Cloud OS

February 15, 2012 11:00 AM
Seeking to bring cloud computing features to the VMware virtualization private cloud space, Nimbula has announced a new version of its Nimbula Director cloud operating system. In addition to supporting the VMware ESXi hypervisor, Version 2.0 is intended to support VMware's Cloud Foundry platform as a service (PaaS) solution. The company also said it is now a member of VMware's Technology Alliance Program. Other enhancements in this version include the ability for third parties to write software for the Nimbula Director platform, as well as the ability to manage and monitor applications, provide Dynamic Name Service and virtual private network services, and add features intended to make the software more enterprise-ready by improving its scalability.

Networking APIs Should Be A Critical Feature

December 19, 2011 07:00 AM
When you are looking at your next network equipment refresh, be sure to take a long, deep, look at the APIs the vendors are exporting and importing. Integration features should be near the top of your must-have feature list.

Standardizing Cloud APIs Is Useless

March 09, 2011 03:13 PM
In a session on open source in the cloud at the Cloud Connect show in Santa Clara, Calif., Randy Bias of Cloudscaling dropped a bombshell of a statement: "API's don't matter." What Bias was really asking was, "What role do standards play in cloud computing?" With a wry smirk, Bias went on to explain that mimicking Amazon's APIs, for example, is useless if providers don't have the ability to deliver all of the features and functions of Amazon's service, including the things you don't see like reliability and scaling. Of course APIs matter, but having a functional standardized cloud service management API doesn't and, I'd argue, never will.

IT Is Becoming All About The API

February 02, 2011 07:00 AM
During a visit to Sillicon Valley a few weeks back, I had the opportunity to stop in on Cisco, HP and Juniper and get demos of products that I have been briefed on and written about but haven't seen in action. These products include Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS), Juniper's JunOS Space and HP's Intelligent Management Center. What struck me most about all three products is how much emphasis the vendors are putting on developing APIs, both for internal use and third-party integration. APIs, and, by extension, integrated products are going to become much more important in your buying decisions.

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