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Report: SDN meets the real world: implementation benefits and challenges
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Read MoreFacebook’s latest homemade hardware is a 128-port modular switch
Facebook has been building its own servers and storage gear for years, and last June announced its first-ever networking gear in the…
Read MoreFacebook redesigned the data center network: 3 reasons it matters
Earlier this month, Facebook announced a new data center networking architecture that it calls, fittingly, "data center fabric." We had Facebook Director of Network Engineering Najam Ahmad on the Structure Show podcast this week to talk about the new fabric in more detail.…
Read MoreFacebook shows the promise of SDN with new networking tech
Facebook detailed on Friday a new networking technology dubbed Data Center Fabric that coordinates all of the information flowing throughout its new data center in Altoona, Iowa. The Altoona facility is the first Facebook data center to showcase the new technology and going forward all new data centers will have it installed, said Alexey Andreyev, a Facebook network engineer.…
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Plexxi names EMC vet Napolitano its new CEO
Rich Napolitano made a name for himself as top U.S. sales guy at Sun Microsystems and then as leader of EMC's unified storage push. Now he's CEO of Plexxi, a networking startup.…
Read MoreGoogle has been laying the foundation of its cloud platform for years
Google announced a handful of new features on Tuesday, but the company is only turning into products what it has been building for years.…
Read MoreEMC takes the reins of VCE, buying out more of Cisco’s stake
EMC is taking on more of Cisco's stake in VCE, maker of Vblock converged hardware. One reason? VCE partners Cisco and VMware have been at each other's throats.…
Read MorePica8 takes in $12.5M to popularize its operating system for software defined networking
Pica8 makes a custom operating system designed to power the chips that enable software to interact with hardware in networking gear.…
Read MoreBig telecom companies band together to form open-source project for network functions virtualization
Companies like Cisco, Juniper Networks and Nokia Networks along with the Linux Foundation are hoping that the Open Platform for NFV Project will develop a standard for NFV, a network architecture concept that calls for all aspects of networking to be virtualized.…
Read MoreBig Switch wants to capitalize on networking’s big switch. Can it?
Big Switch, a company that has shifted from building a controller for software defined networks to building an OS to run atop bare metal switches, is trying to make enterprise networks run like webscale networks.…
Read MoreCisco gets the devops religion as software eats networking
Cisco has launched a program to train developers to use its APIs and help them program its gear to work with products from Cisco partners. Can this program keep Cisco relevant in a software-defined world?…
Read MoreBig Switch co-founder and SDN pioneer Guido Appenzeller leaves the company
Appenzeller, who co-founded Big Switch four years ago to attack the software-defined networking market, has taken his leave, sources say.…
Read MoreArista Networks in the spotlight: a closer look at one of the year’s buzziest IPO’s
Arista Networks' much anticipated IPO is not without its challenges, including a lawsuit lodged by one of its own co-founders and a hiccup around friends and family shares.…
Read MoreThe webscale effect: 6 big shifts in computing, courtesy of the world’s largest web companies
Large web companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon have been pushing the boundaries of IT for years, and now their problems -- and solutions -- are making their ways into the mainstream.…
Read MoreGoogle launches Andromeda, a software defined network underlying its cloud
The Andromeda virtualized network that underlies some of Google's services is now available to certain customers of Google's Compute Engine with more zones coming on in the coming months.…
Read MoreBig Switch taps Jeffrey Wang, a Cisco and Brocade vet, as VP of engineering
Jeffrey Wang brings with him experience gleaned from more than a decade at Cisco and Brocade to the SDN upstart.…
Read MoreThe IT triangle strategy for evaluating enterprise tech startups
Greylock Partners' Jerry Chen shares the triangular frameworks he uses to analyze opportunities and spot disruptive technologies in the IT infrastructure and enterprise application spaces.…
Read MoreFacebook’s hardware VP says we’re very close to open source switches
The Facebook-led Open Compute Project is set to vote on four new specifications that would make open source networking switches and OS software a reality in the near future.…
Read MoreKeeping an eye on software-defined networking: what will it break, and how will it perform?
Software defined networking may not be mainstream, but when it does get deployed, how will we manage the new networks and ensure performance?…
Read MoreFaster feature rollouts and fewer house calls: Why Telefonica is virtualizing the set-top box
The Spanish carrier group and the Japanese equipment maker NEC have begun a pilot program in Brazil, where many of the complex routing functions are being virtualized out of the set-top box and into the network.…
Read MoreIBM gets patent to battle cloud ‘noisy neighbor’ problem with SDN
IBM has been awarded a patent for moving virtual machines across physical servers in a cloud in order to ensure applications are receiving the bandwidth they need. It's an interesting solution to a problem that has plagued some cloud users.…
Read MoreForget Terabit networks; new multicore fibers could signal the Petabit age
U.K. and Japanese researchers have combined software-defined networking with new multicore fiber technologies. Such networks could produce the first Petabit pipe.…
Read MoreStructure 2013 recap: Clouds and devops are hot, while the SDN jury is out
Speakers at GigaOM's Structure conference this week displayed the ferocity of the public-cloud market and the broadening adoption of private clouds among large businesses.…
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