Here are eight steps for going from zero to private cloud. Note that I didn’t say eight "easy" steps. But don’t let that bother you–nothing that’s easy is ever worth doing anyway. 1. Define business objectives for cloud migration. 2. Prioritize objectives. 3. Create and promote your cloud vision and strategy. 4. Identify organizational readiness. 5. Analyze operational and technical readiness. 6. Define your private cloud architecture. 7. Create a realistic timeline. 8. Execute. To read the full blog go to: http://www.networkcomputing.com/private-cloud/232700285
NVGRE
The most viable competitor to VXLAN is NVGRE which was proposed by Microsoft, Intel, HP and Dell. It is another encapsulation technique intended to allow virtual network overlays across the physical network. Both techniques also remove the scalability issues with VLANs which are bound at a max of 4096. NVGRE…
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Intent all of the things: The Power of end-to-end Intent
The tech world is buzzing with talk of intent. Intent based this, intent driven that. Let’s take a look at intent, and where we as an industry want to go with it. First, and briefly, what’s intent? Intent is fairly simple if you let it be, it’s what you want from the…
Network Overlays: An Introduction
While network overlays are not a new concept, they have come back into the limelight, thanks to drivers brought on by large-scale virtualization. Several standards have been proposed to enable virtual networks to be layered over a physical network infrastructure: VXLAN, NVGRE, and SST. While each proposed standard uses different…