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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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InteropNet Tests Network Fabric Design and More
May 02, 2013 03:55 PM
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InteropNet, the production network for Interop Las Vegas, is testing and showcasing a variety of technologies, including a network fabric from Avaya and network configuration software from Tail-f Systems.
May the Power Be With You
April 17, 2013 08:10 PM
Posted by David Hill
Companies such as Power Assure are helping data center operators uncover hidden capacity by accurately measuring energy consumption and finding ways to run systems more efficiently.
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Calculating The True Cost Of VDI
April 15, 2013 05:36 PM
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There are a lot of reasons to go with VDI, but economics isn’t one of them; VDI is too expensive to justify on costs alone. Here’s my tally.
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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Best of the Web
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.
