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On to Interop 2012: BYOD, Cloud, SDN, slot machines, and roulette
Here's what I'm expecting for this year's Interop.
Submitted by joltsik on Mon, 05/07/12 - 9:48am.
I'll be on an airplane in a few hours bound for Las Vegas and Interop 2012. Here's what I'm expecting at the show:
1. SDN, the sequel. With the Open Networking Summit (ONS) last month and Interop this week, software-defined networking is the gift that keeps on giving. Interop will feature an OpenFlow plug-fest and lots of rhetoric. What I'm looking for, however, are real use cases, mature products, and actual implementation. I'd like to see an SDN-based data center fabric for example -- perhaps IBM and NEC will have something to show. Read more
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VMware View: Not VDI
Today, VMware announced its latest release of View which is important, but not as interesting as a few other announcements the company slid in.
Submitted by markbowker on Wed, 05/02/12 - 11:41am.
VMware coined the term VDI years ago when its virtual desktop product was so creatively named VMware VDI. Since then, VMware changed the product name to View and has been working hard to take advantage of its strong vSphere footprint inside the data center. Today, VMware announced its latest release of View which is important, but not as interesting as a few other announcements the company slid in. Read more
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For Brocade, the time is right for VSPEX
How EMC's release of VSPEX can help its partner Brocade just as well.
Submitted by Zeus Kerravala on Wed, 04/18/12 - 2:29pm.
Last week EMC launched its eagerly awaited VSPEX architecture. VSPEX is a turnkey reference architecture made up of best-of-breed partners to deliver an end-to-end cloud solution. The solution, while led by EMC, also involved collaboration from such partners as Brocade, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft and VMware. VSPEX is another option for customers who do not want to build their own from scratch nor want a converged solution like VCE. It’s a proven solution that’s been validated by EMC. Read more
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Your move, VMware: Windows Server '8' Becomes Windows Server 2012
Microsoft opens the kimono a little on its upcoming server operating system.
Submitted by Andy Patrizio on Wed, 04/18/12 - 12:04am.
The Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas was the backdrop for a rather unsurprising bit of news: Windows Server "8” will officially be named Windows Server 2012 and will be released this calendar year.
The news came as part of the rollout for System Center 2012, the latest edition of the company’s system management environment. Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson channeled the spirit of Steve Jobs and called Server 2012 "the most amazing release of Windows Server that we've ever done." Read more
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Hyper-V: Hyper Adoption
Impressive evidence of Hyper-V adoption
Submitted by markbowker on Tue, 04/17/12 - 10:33am.
I'm attending Microsoft Management Summit 2012 this week and had an interesting observation in one of my sessions. I always ask (and make a little joke out of asking) "Who is using VMware?" and as you would expect, the majority of the room raise their hand. No surprise. I asked the same question during one of my sessions at MMS and I received the same result. Read more
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VMware's Love/Hate Relationship with Open Source
Is it whatever suits them at the moment or just confused?
Submitted by Alan Shimel on Tue, 04/17/12 - 8:43am.
It would seem that VMware has a love/hate relationship going on with open source and the cloud. Read more
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A New Menu Item – EMC VSPEX
EMC VSPEX is further evidence that the IT infrastructure consumption model is changing.
Submitted by markbowker on Fri, 04/13/12 - 11:59am.
EMC VSPEX is further evidence that the IT infrastructure consumption model is changing. VSPEX is ultimately a new menu item for select EMC partners. From the outside, VSPEX has a consistent look of a packaged solution, but it is what is available on the inside that gets interesting. A customer will be able to customize a VSPEX based on hypervisor preference (Citrix, Microsoft, or VMware), Cisco servers, Cisco or Brocade networking, and multiple flavors of EMC storage. Read more
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Dell Acquires Wyse: The Software Company
Dell's intent to acquire Wyse has the potential to be a great investment for Dell.
Submitted by markbowker on Tue, 04/10/12 - 9:43am.
Wyse??? I thought they made AS400 dump terminals.!?!?! Read more
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Anticipating the Open Networking Summit
Lots of buzz but real progress and use cases will be the highlight
Submitted by joltsik on Thu, 03/22/12 - 1:08pm.
We are a few weeks away from the Open Networking Summit (www.opennetsummit.org) which will be held in Santa Clara April 16 through 18. Read more
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The Many Synergies of Dell's Acquisition of SonicWall
Services, mid-market, and data center sales could benefit
Submitted by joltsik on Tue, 03/13/12 - 12:19pm.
You have to give Dell a lot of credit. As the company recognized changes in the industry, it was willing to move beyond efficient PC/server manufacturing and distribution into new technologies and labor-intensive services. In my domain, this led to the acquisition of SecureWorks and Force10. Today, Dell took another step into end-to-end solutions by grabbing security veteran SonicWall. Read more
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Data Center Network Security: Will Anyone Discuss This at RSA?
Critical topic, big opportunity but lack of "buzz factor" will limit visibility
Submitted by joltsik on Wed, 02/22/12 - 9:24am.
Less than a week before the RSA Conference in San Francisco and my telephones are ringing off the hook. People want to discuss a variety of topics including APTs, mobile security, cloud security, big data analytics, and so on. Read more
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Software-Defined Networking Evolution (Not Revolution) Under Way
Service providers may jump but enterprises need a smooth migration path
Submitted by joltsik on Tue, 02/07/12 - 11:15am.
Is it too early or too late to declare 2012 the year of SDN? A few weeks ago, IBM and NEC introduced integrated technologies around OpenFlow for enterprise data centers. Last week, HP announced OpenFlow support with 16 switch models. Finally, early this week, Nicira went public with its Distributed Virtual Network Infrastructure (DVNI).
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My Thoughts on IBM, NEC, and OpenFlow
Announcement builds momentum and brings SDN to the enterprise
Submitted by joltsik on Wed, 01/25/12 - 2:56pm.
IBM and NEC announced this week that the two companies will work together to offer networking solutions based upon SDN and OpenFlow. IBM provides the switches which are integrated with the NEC Programmable Flow Controller.
To me, this is bigger than just a press release and some joint marketing programs. Here’s why:
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Data Center Networking Discontinuity Impacts Network Security
Data center scale and complexity is no match for existing security controls
Submitted by joltsik on Wed, 01/18/12 - 11:09am.
Data center consolidation and server virtualization are creating data centers of massive scale, and thus radically changing the data center environment. Unfortunately, legacy data center networking equipment was not designed for this type of scale and dynamic use case. ESG calls this state data center networking discontinuity.
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Data Center Networking Discontinuity
Data center environmental changes will open the door for technologies like fabric architectures, SDN, and OpenFlow in 2012
Submitted by joltsik on Wed, 01/11/12 - 4:01pm.
Why did dinosaurs become extinct? I’m no paleontologist but allow me to provide an over-simplified explanation: When the environment went through radical alterations, dinosaurs couldn’t adequately adapt to these changes. In a binary, “adapt or die” world, the dinosaurs died.
A similar binary situation is developing with data center networks. On the one hand, the environment is going through some radical changes. According to ESG Research:
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Iron Foundry Brings .Net To Cloud Foundry
Tier 3 donates .Net Framework to Open Source Community
Submitted by Alan Shimel on Tue, 12/13/11 - 11:04am.
Back last April I wrote about VMware releasing a new open source PaaS solution called Cloud Foundry. At the time I said that VMware wanted to break Google and Microsoft's lock on PaaS, which many people consider the future of the cloud. Read more
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Some Thoughts on The SANS 20 Critical Security Controls
My input on a few of these focused and highly intelligent security recommendations
Submitted by joltsik on Mon, 12/12/11 - 12:01pm.
As I transitioned from the weekend to the work week last night, I settled down to review the 20 Critical Security Controls (v3) published by the SANS Institute. If you haven’t seen this list, you really should take a look as it’s an extremely focused, well written, metrics-based strategy for protecting your organization against the most likely security risks.
The first two controls are:
1. Inventory of authorized and unauthorized devices.
2. Inventory of authorized and unauthorized software.
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Enterasys OneFabric Makes Sense
New Enterasys initiative a good match for customers and target market
Submitted by joltsik on Wed, 10/19/11 - 2:38pm.
Just what is a "network fabric?" Generally, the term is used to describe a low-latency, loss-less, converged, flat network architecture for data centers. That said, the term has been co-opted by marketing types so its hard to know what "network fabric" means anymore. Read more
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Putting the QNAP T-1079 Pro NAS to the test
By Mark Gibbs on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 12:00am.
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VMware networking exec leaves VMware for OpenFlow startup Big Switch Networks: Here’s why
I had a chance to sit down with former VMware R&D director Howie Xu to discuss his transition to Big Switch Networks and his take on the future of networking.
Submitted by Art Fewell on Tue, 09/27/11 - 3:20pm.
Howie Xu has been at VMware since he co-invented and helped to launch the vSwitch. After leading the development efforts for VMware's networking for much of the past 9 years, Howie joined OpenFlow startup Big Switch Networks. I had the chance to sit down with Howie to discuss his new role as VP of Engineering for Big Switch Networks, why he left VMware, and his take on the future of networking. Read more
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