And its decision to support the project by both contributing code and using it as the basis of its IaaS have helped put Citrix on the defensive with respect to its own open source CloudStack. Second, HP has witnessed the mistakes other companies have …
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Nicira was founded in 2007, and while still in “stealth mode” — meaning it wasn’t talking to the press — the company spearheaded the development of a technology called OpenFlow, an effort to build a standard protocol for controlling network hardware …
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Remember OpenStack? And, as McMillan writes, “the case could give Amazon legal grounds to seek licensing deals from OpenStack users such as Hewlett-Packard and Rackspace. But other projects reproduce Amazon’s APIs, including Citrix’s CloudStack project …
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Now that it’s shipping, does Adara’s platform validate SDN, as Laliberte says on his blog about Google kicking off the event by announcing they are using OpenFlow and SDN in a production environment. “That is a pretty good proof point for the …
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Photo: Drupal Association/Flickr As the heavyweights of the IT industry swarm on the OpenStack cloud OS and the OpenFlow networking protocol, there’s a renewed push to avoid vendor lock-in and to also keep the cloud innovative, and the giants of open …
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Photo: Friprog/Flickr There was a common thread last week in the big cloud news, with RackSpace amping up the OpenStack party and OpenFlow taking the computer networking world by storm. Did you catch it? “Open,” as in Richard Stallman-style Free and …
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And Google has signed on as one of several organizations backing the Open Networking Foundation, which promotes OpenFlow. (Other members include Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Verizon and Deutsche Telekom, and Nicira.) “But none of the partners so far …
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Photo: simonov/Flickr With all of the “next big thing” talk surrounding software-defined networking and OpenFlow players coming out of the Open Network Summit this week — not to mention talk of a possible Cisco-less future — it’s no surprise Cisco …
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On Tuesday, during a speech in Santa Clara, California, Google’s Urs Hölzle — the man who oversees the company’s worldwide network of data centers — revealed that the company is now using an open source protocol known as OpenFlow to completely …
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