As we enter the second half of 2010, I sense that an architectural shift in data center environments has begun replacing traditional constructs. Traffic Patterns are rapidly shifting from the traditional North-South client server model to an East-West server to server. As thi...
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Applications are Driving Traffic Patterns in Cloud Networking
July 27th, 2010The Power of Cloud Networking
June 14th, 2010The future of data centers is changing rapidly. Enterprise data centers are no more about basic networking connectivity where networking was driven mostly by client-server applications such as email and web at 1Gigabit Ethernet connectivity with 10% utilization. The data cente...
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Arista 7500: A New Switch is Born!
May 10th, 2010In my networking career I have been involved in a few generations of switches spanning multiple decades. The goal has always been a next generation Ethernet speed transition; from 10/100 Megabit in the nineties to 1 Gigabit in the new millennium and now 10 Gigabit in the new d...
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Arista 7500: the Fastest and Greenest 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
April 19th, 2010We are witnessing a major shift from traditional enterprise data centers to much larger warehouse-scale cloud data centers. This is driven by the economics of scale and the benefits of cloud computing, and is happening for both for public and private clouds.
These...
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