Data Center Network Devices & Interconnect Technologies
Earlier today, Nicira publicly emerged as a company from stealth mode with more than just an idea, but with a product and several customers actually using it. While many find that approach old school, I like the fact that they are more than just PowerPoint slides and buzzword bingo press ...
As organizations continue to consolidate data centers and increase their use of server virtualization technology, IT departments are forced to respond by building out massively scalable data center network environments. However, are data center networks evolving fast enough to survive (in current form) in a rapidly changing world? Jon ...
IBM and NEC announced this week that the two companies will work together to offer networking solutions based upon SDN and OpenFlow. IBM provides the switches which are integrated with the NEC Programmable Flow Controller.
To me, this is bigger than just a press release and some joint marketing ...
Published on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at 10:39 am | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Jon Oltsik |
Enterprise data center networks are rapidly reaching a breaking point. Why? Data center network scale and complexity is testing the limits of legacy networking equipment and IT operations. ESG calls this phenomenon data center networking discontinuity. While networking vendors are desperately adding new features to their equipment, a radically new ...
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Jon Oltsik |
Why did dinosaurs become extinct? I’m no paleontologist but allow me to provide an over-simplified explanation: When the environment went through radical alterations, dinosaurs couldn’t adequately adapt to these changes. In a binary, “adapt or die” world, the dinosaurs died.
A similar binary situation is developing with data center networks. On ...
Together, tiering and consolidation cut EMC's data center power requirement by 34 percent, leading to a projected 90-million-pound reduction in carbon footprint over five years, according to an Enterprise Strategy Group audit.
via Energy savings in the cloud - The Times of India.
My colleague Jon Oltsik recently posted a blog about the merits of OpenFlow as a new generation of software-driven networking. I won’t repeat the details here, since but it’s always good to get a first-hand look at a commercial implementation of the protocol.
That’s where the ESG Lab validation of NEC’s ...
The addition of Oracle and Solaris support should help drive interest in this product, especially when you consider the mission critical apps that are typically running on Solaris or being supported by an Oracle database, says Bob Laliberte, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. Starting with Windows made sense given the ...
Emulex has announced availability of its 16Gb Fibre Channel technology, but don’t think this is just a simple bandwidth increase. Emulex has packed a lot of innovative technology into this release: it will enable highly virtualized and cloud computing environments to scale, take advantage of I/O virtualization technologies, and provide ...
I've been thinking about OpenFlow for a while as it relates to data center networking. What's the use case? What's the enterprise play? What will OpenFlow and SDN do to the networking market?
I've seen the "plugfests" and know that OpenFlow works. I spoke with Broadcom at Interop and understand how ...
