Neutron in the Real World – TWC Implementation and Evolution

Time Warner Cable runs “stock” Neutron with ML2 and VxLAN at a scale of hundreds of nodes in multiple data centers. Today many who are standing up an OpenStack Clouds prefer Nova-Network over Neutron or, at best Neutron with a flat networking. Reasons are largely stated as Neutron complexity, maturity, performance, bad experiences during testing,… Continue reading Neutron in the Real World – TWC Implementation and Evolution

Highly Available, Performant, VXLAN Service Node

VXLAN is a point to point, UDP-based “tunneling” protocol, that enables L2 encapsulation over an L3 “undernet”, while also allowing up to 16 million Virtual Networks. One challenge with deploying VXLAN is that by default VXLAN requires multicast support for Broadcast, Unknown and Multi-cast packets. Often this is not possible in customer networks. An alternative… Continue reading Highly Available, Performant, VXLAN Service Node

Zenoss Expands Support for Cisco Datacenter Environments

Zenoss Inc., the leading provider of unified monitoring and service analytics for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures, today announced new support for two Cisco UCS server families, ZenPacks for Cisco UCS Central and Cisco UCS Director and a ZenPack supporting VXLAN in Cisco Nexus 9000 switches. The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is an… Continue reading Zenoss Expands Support for Cisco Datacenter Environments

Infinitely Virtual Upgrades Infrastructure System-wide, Boosting Performance, Reliability, Flexibility

Cloud Computing West 2013 Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of Cloud Server computing services, today announced that it has completed a comprehensive system-wide infrastructure upgrade, an overhaul aimed at enhancing one of the industry’s most sophisticated virtualization environments. With its innovative approach to virtualization, Infinitely Virtual provides aggressively-priced options that competitors simply cannot meet. “Our… Continue reading Infinitely Virtual Upgrades Infrastructure System-wide, Boosting Performance, Reliability, Flexibility

F5 Enhances SDN Integration and Cloud Scaling Capabilities

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced new solutions to make it easier for organizations to scale to the cloud, extend software defined networking (SDN) deployments, and add intelligence and programmability to IT environments. With a unified suite of physical and virtual products featuring F5’s innovative ScaleN™ architecture, organizations can seamlessly scale operations to realize the… Continue reading F5 Enhances SDN Integration and Cloud Scaling Capabilities

F5 Solutions Combine with VXLAN to Support Software Defined Networking

VMworld Europe 2012 BARCELONA, Spain: F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today at VMworld® 2012 Europe announced support for VXLAN functionality, enabling organizations to seamlessly support software defined networking (SDN) initiatives by combining VMware and F5 solutions. F5® BIG-IP® products can natively take advantage of the benefits of… Continue reading F5 Solutions Combine with VXLAN to Support Software Defined Networking

Vendors Demo Software Defined Cloud Networking at VMworld 2012

VMworld US 2012 Arista Networks today announced Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology innovations that demonstrate the first multi-vendor programmatic automation with solutions from F5 Networks, VMware and EMC Isilon that enable end-to-end network virtualization from physical, to virtual, to cloud networks. The joint demonstration of the Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) specification by Arista and others… Continue reading Vendors Demo Software Defined Cloud Networking at VMworld 2012