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7 Modeling Tools To Help Assess Cloud ROI

January 08, 2013 09:38 PM
Posted by David Greenfield

Cloud services promise faster deployment and more flexibility, but if you want your CFO to back your cloud gambit, show her a solid financial analysis–preferably one with a good ROI. Here are 7 tools that can help.

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Tags: Amazon, AWS, Reserved Instance, cloud computing, public cloud, private cloud

Channel: Virtualization, Security, Cloud Storage, Private Cloud, Public Cloud

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SDN: Is Big Data a Killer App?

December 17, 2012 04:44 PM
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A major promise of software-defined networking is that it will unleash new applications to take advantage of network programmability. Big data may be one category poised to leverage SDN.

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Tags: SDN, software defined networking, OpenFlow, Big Data

Channel: Virtualization, Networking & Mgmt, Data Center

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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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SDN: 5 Things CIOs Must Know

December 03, 2012 01:24 PM
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Software-defined networking promises to pull today’s network into the virtual age, but CIOs have to separate speculation from reality. Here are five observations to help guide IT leaders’ thinking.

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Tags: SDN, software defined networking, software defined networks, CIOs, hypervisor, network virtualization

Channel: Virtualization, Data Center, Networking & Mgmt

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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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