Sunday, February 9, 2014

Blueprint: SDDC – Moving Beyond the Early Adopter

by Steve Riley, Technical Director, CTO Office, Riverbed The term “early adopter” can carry with it something of a stigma. We tend to think of early adopters as technophile geeks who overpay for some new piece of consumer technology that is only partially functional. One significant example was those who scoffed at the earliest automobiles, because they were initially less reliable than the horses that were the standard form of transportation. What...

NTT Teams with ALU and Fujitsu on Server Study

NTT has launched a collaborative study with Alcatel-Lucent Japan and Fujitsu to develop server architecture for core systems of telecom networks. NTT said it is interested in servers based on general purpose hardware that enable faster development of applications.  In this server architecture, all network functions would be realized on network-wide virtualized hardware. NTT Laboratories will contribute core technologies. Alcatel-Lucent Japan...

Pluribus Networks Unveils its Virtualized Data Center Architecture

Pluribus Networks, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, unveiled its "Freedom" architecture for integrating compute, network, storage and bare-metal hypervisor OS technologies. Pluribus said its  he Freedom platform brings full bare-metal control and visibility into the network through powerful, Unix-style API to deliver true inNetwork Application Programmability, inNetwork virtualization, inNetwork analytics and inNetwork automation. The...