Frequently, I am asked about the relationship between Virtualization and Clouds. In one word, the answer is “yes”, they are related. They are symbiotic cousins. They can exist separately, but together place greater demands on re-designing networks.Virtualization te...
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Virtualization & Clouds – Are they related?
August 5th, 2009The Symmetry between Gigahertz and Gigabits in Cloud Networking
July 14th, 2009One of Om Malik’s recent blogs I read in Gigaom was thought provoking (as usual!). It made me realize that we have reached a tipping point with the introduction and deployment of powerful multi-core processors. They have begun to challenge the foundation of today’s...
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Citrix and Arista – Two Pioneers Partner in Cloud Networking
June 18th, 2009Today’s Datacenters are still separated distinctly by OSI stack layers. Layer 2/3/4 switching are typically implemented by 1/10GE switches and application delivery functions such as L4-L7 server load balancing are deployed as appliance functions largely as two ships in t...
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Does Latency Matter in Cloud Networking?
May 18th, 2009Cloud Networking has arrived upon us. Take server density on a scale never seen before plus compute demanding application workloads and you get a class of non-blocking cloud networking that is more aware of dynamic application flows than vanilla packet switching.
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