Brad Hedlund recently posted an excellent blog on Network Virtualization. Network Virtualization is the label used by Brad’s employer VMware/Nicira for their implementation of SDN. Brad’s article does a great job of outlining the need for changes in networking in order to support current and evolving application deployment models. He…
Year: 2013
CloudStack Graduates to Top-Level Apache Project
The Apache Software Foundation announced in late March that CloudStack is now a top-level project. This is a promotion from CloudStack’s incubator status, where it had lived after being released as open source by Citrix. This promotion provides additional encouragement to companies and developers looking to contribute to the project,…
OpenStack Video Cage Match With Colin McNamara
This post is a little late, mainly because I’m both lazy and distracted. That being said I hope you’ll enjoy this video of Colin McNamara (@colinmcnamara) and I debating the merits of OpenStack. For more Engineer’s unplugged goodness from Amy Lewis (@commsninja) visit: http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/. Related posts: The Stack Wars: OpenStack…
WWT GeekDay 2013
I had the privilege this week to attend the opening keynote and SDN panel of WWT’s Geek Day. The SDN panel was made up of heavy hitters from Cisco, VMware, HP, and Embrane. They each presented their vision and solutions for SDN, then teamed up for questions. The session was…
Taking a Good Hard Look at SDN
SDN is sitting at the peak of it’s hype cycle (at least I hope it’s the peak.) Every vendor has a definition and a plan. Most of those definitions and plans focus around protecting their existing offerings and morphing those into some type of SDN vision. Products and entire companies…
The App on the Crap (An SDN Story)
I’m feeling Seussish again and looking to tackle SDN this time. If you missed my first go it was on Hadoop: Horton Hears Hadoop. Here’s another run: The app could not flow Net was too slow to change. It sat on the server Waiting on admin for change. …