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Obtaining Data Agility Through SDN

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Agility is arguably the most valuable ability that IT can give to the business. The ability to respond as quickly as possible to changing business needs and market dynamics is increasingly driven by technology and most specifically, fast access to…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, IoT, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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Why SDN and Intent-based Networking for Edge Computing?

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Krista Macomber

For many enterprises, the traditional, centralized data center is steadily becoming a part of the past. Compute power and storage capacity are increasingly distributed to the network edge, to facilitate faster, more secure, and more cost-effective analysis of the growing…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, IoT, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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Using Software-defined Networking to Scale the IT Team

Posted on February 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

IT infrastructure must become easier to manage, to free up the time that IT managers are spending on cumbersome day-to-day management tasks that add little strategic value. To meet this need, automation and software-driven abstraction are becoming baked into modern…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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SlideShare: The Software Matters in Open Networking

Posted on November 30, 2018 by George Crump

Achieving the Benefits of Open Networking in the Data Center Open networking offers the ability to break free of vendor lock-in and achieve white box economics. SDN promises automation, reduced OpEx and increased agility. However, the open networking and SDN landscape can…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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What is Intent Based Networking?

Posted on November 13, 2018 by George Crump

Intent-Based Networking moves organizations from reactive networking where everything that happens on a network is in response to something, to proactive networking where everything that happens on a network is to deliver the business goal or the intent. Intent-based networking…

Tagged with: Fabric, Intent Based, Open Network, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Software-defined networking, Virtualization
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Defining SDN in the Open Networking Era

Posted on October 11, 2018 by George Crump

Software-defined networking (SDN) represents the future of networking. A “software-defined” network enables an organization to virtualize their network, automate operations to enable efficient network configuration, and integrate network functions across dozens of switches creating a unified network architecture that is…

Tagged with: Fabric, Open Network, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Software-defined networking, Virtualization
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Understanding White Box Networking and Open Network Operating Systems

Posted on October 4, 2018 by George Crump

For decades, an organization bought its network switching products from a single vendor such as Cisco. In most cases, that organization’s data center became 100% dedicated to that networking vendor and it was almost impossible for another vendor to gain…

Tagged with: Analytics, ASIC, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, NOS, Open Network, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Software-defined networking, Virtualization
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Webinar: The Software Matters in Open Networking

Posted on October 3, 2018 by George Crump

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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Fiber Mountain’s Software-Defined Networking lowers Network Latency and Cost

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Eric Slack

Networks have historically been constructed using a hierarchical topology of rack and row switches connected into large ‘directors’ at the data center core. This architecture generates a number of ‘hops’ as packets traverse the network from edge to core to…

Tagged with: Fiber Mountain, I/O Virtualization, Infrastructure, IOV, Latency, Network Interface Card, NIC, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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Software Defined Networking For Better Scale-out Storage

Posted on December 18, 2013 by George Crump

Leveraging Software Defined Networking For Better Scale-out Storage

Intelligently placing data within a storage system is not necessarily a new concept, but leveraging software defined networking to make decisions about data while it’s still in transit is. When software defined networking and software defined storage are combined they can overcome some of the challenges that high performance scale-out storage systems encounter. As a result these new, software defined, scale-out systems provide highly flexible, highly reliable and highly cost effective storage systems that can support a wide variety of workloads.

Learn:

– The challenges when Scale-out architectures
– How flash exposes even more challenges
– How Software Defined Networking can lead to better scale-out storage