Posts Tagged ‘ SDN ’

Automation Weaknesses

May 6, 2013
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DataCenterVirtualization

Over the last few weeks I have been struggling with automating deployment and testing of virtual desktops for my own edification. This struggle has pointed out automation weaknesses which need to be addressed for automation and the software defined data center to succeed and not only be deployed from software but also self-healing and all…

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IT Automation: Where is the Center?

February 26, 2013
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ITasaService

The network binds it all together, the network could be the center of IT Automation.

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News: CloudBolt Integrates Cloud Management with Nicira Network Virtualization

January 11, 2013
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CloudBolt Software has announced that version 3.5 of CloudBolt Command and Control (C2) will integrate with VMware Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). CloudBolt C2 takes advantage of the NVP virtualization API's to programatically create complex secure networks, entirely in softwarer, and completely independent of the underlying network hardware.

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Vyatta: Building Block for Brocade SDN Plans

November 6, 2012
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Brocade has stated they will buy Vyatta for an all cash deal. This is good news for Vyatta and perhaps a way for Brocade to partake of software that could rival VMware's purchase of Nicira when Vyatta's own SDN features are married with Brocade Ether Fabric technology. Brocade has been in the software business for…

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Is the Software Defined Data Center the Future?

August 1, 2012
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ITasaService

VMware purchased Nicira, backed the Openflow Community, and is now touting software defined data centers (SDDC). But what is a software defined datacenter? Is it just virtualization or cloud with a software defined network? Or is it something more than that? Given heavy automation and scripting of most clouds, do we not already have SDDC?…

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