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OpenStack: An Overview

In practice, OpenStack is a conglomeration of multiple open-source projects and consists of an ever-growing mountain of Apache 2 code. It follows a development ideology of divide-and-conquer, in which individual modules are built to create an overall
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Xirrus Adds Application Control To WLAN Arrays

Regardless of whose logo is on the access point or array, the distributed nature of wireless networking offers new paradigms for the likes of traffic shaping and control. As a past or current customer of Packeteer, Allot and Palo Alto Networks, I’ve
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SDN Is Business, OpenFlow Is Technology

OpenFlow is a southbound API. OpenFlow describes an industry-standard API that configures the frame-forwarding silicon in an Ethernet switch and defines the flow path through a network. In addition, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), the standards
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Palo Alto Networks Virtualizes Firewall, Adds New Hardware

Palo Alto Networks has unleashed a slew of security products, including VM-Series, a next-generation firewall platform for virtualized data centers. The company has also introduced mid-range firewall hardware platform, the PA-3000 Series, and the M-100
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Unleashing the Power of Software-Defined Networking on Virtual Tunnels

The big cloud providers like Google are doing cool things with OpenFlow, but their lead doesn’t necessarily translate down to the enterprise market. On the other hand, the overlay protocols like NVGRE, VXLAN and STT aid in VM-to-VM networking,
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Why Software-Defined Networking Could Revolutionize Networking

Additionally, OpenFlow is an open-source option for building an SDN control plane. Why is the industry buzzing? Because the technology could revolutionize networking. Typical networking intelligence is distributed across physical switches and routers,
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Software-Defined Networking Market to Soar to $2B–But Not Yet

Doyle says IDC’s forecast for OpenFlow and the software-defined networking market as a whole includes switching and routing as well as services and software. SDN separates network data traffic processing from the logic and rules controlling the flow,
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Day 2 at EMC World: Touching Base With EMC Partners

The manager applies network policies via OpenFlow to replication data between data centers and can support, for example, EMC’s SRDF and RecoverPoint, as well as VMware’s Site Recovery Manager. Vello’s RDRM seems targeted toward cloud providers,
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