A few weeks ago, the SDNCentral team joined Arista Networks and Apollo Information Systems for a practical, informative lunch seminar on SDN fundamentals. Here’s a video of the event so you can take a look at what you may have missed. We cover when to use SDN technologies, what problems they solve, and how to prepare your infrastructure today….
Editor’s Note: 6WIND Gate Accelerated vSwitch is a video tutorial by Eric Carmès and Charlie Ashton. As virtual switch and Open vSwitch (OVS) technology increasingly become the heart of SDN-based data center networks, the challenge for vSwitch vendors becomes finding ways to meet rapidly growing performance challenges. 6WIND is among those working to find ways to optimize OVS. They recently…
On May 7th, we were thrilled to participate in the Software Defined Networks (SDN) Networks Meeting put on by TelecomCouncil Silicon Valley. My presentation: ”State of the SDN Market” didn’t warrant any thrown tomatoes–so I’m posting it here to share with you. I discussed a bit about a) the state of SDN market; b) customer anecdotes; and c) what to look for in SDN…
DemoFriday Update: This week we’ll be joined by Bernino Lind, COO of CloudSigma who will discuss how he is using Plexxi and SolidFire in the CloudSigma network to gain competitive advantage. Join us this week for DemoFriday™ as SDN goes beyond theoretical discussions and into driving actual business value for customers. This Friday, May 10, we will show what happens when…
On April 15-18th, some of the most anticipated SDN and Network Functions Virtualization presentations were taking place at 2013′s Open Networking Summit. We were thrilled to have been able to participate in several very cool events, including the following tutorial presentation: “SDN Market Opportunites Network Virtualizaton – Real World Views.” Both Roy and I enjoyed the idea exchange with so…
I spoke with Kelly Herrell, Vice President and General Manager, Software Networking Business Unit at Vyatta, a Brocade company, recently and got a sneak peek at the Brocade technologies that are part of exciting demo we’ll be showing on SDNCentral on May 17th. The offerings are part of Brocade’s “On-Demand Data Center” strategy which was publicly announced this morning, through…
SDNCentral is excited to share a new series of “fireside chats” that will offer a front-line view of SDN from those working in the thick of it. With so many people in the community looking for resources to help them learn about SDN, we decided to start a Fireside Chat series on SDNCentral. We are talking customer feedback and teaming…
More than steak and salmon were on the menu Tuesday when the SDNCentral team joined Arista Networks and Apollo Information Systems for an educational, pragmatic lunch seminar on SDN. The order of the day: covering SDN fundamentals and taking an honest look at how SDN is working (or not) in the real world today. Arista Vice President of Marketing Doug…
SDNCentral collaborates with Plexxi & Lightspeed Ventures to size SDN Market. Roy and I are frequently asked — What is the Size of the SDN Market? and What does it mean to my business? — so much so, that as of April 2013, 6 of the top 10 networking and virtualization vendors have trusted us to create custom SDN market forecasts…
We are always looking for interesting content to share with the community and recently came across a white paper from Plexxi on Affinity Networking. As a Plexxi authored white paper, it examines and explains SDN from Plexxi’s point of view while describing some benefits specific to their company. The white paper is available here. For more information about Plexxi and Affinity Networking,…
