Let’s face it, Amazon Web Services is a headache for the average IT department. Amazon’s collection of services are fast, scalable, reliable, reasonably cost effective, simple to use and most importantly available as a turn key offering. This is in stark… Read More ›
UPDATE: This post has been tremendously popular but as OpenStack has progressed the instructions no longer work. It is still worth a read because it gives you an idea of how OpenStack and Floodlight interact. I’ll be posting new instructions… Read More ›
When I read the headline ‘Oracle acquires SDN company Xsigo’ I literally laughed out loud. I had never heard Xsigo and SDN in the same discussion, let alone the same sentence. Oracle had been on my list of companies looking to acquire SDN properties… Read More ›
When I started exploring the OpenFlow protocol I was struck by how fundamentally it could change networking. OpenFlow truly provides a clean slate to correct the network mess we have created over the last 20 years. Solutions such as network… Read More ›
Fabrics have been the talk of the industry for the last few years but they are getting overshadowed by the buzz around software defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow. It is easy to see why based on what I saw at… Read More ›
Over the last five years I’ve watched server virtualization become ubiquitous in most data centers, based on the promise of higher infrastructure and increased business agility. I’ve also watched server administrators throw up their hands in frustration, as network administrators… Read More ›
It was 2004 when I saw vMotion for the first time. I was in a room with a bunch of very excited server administrators cheering at the amazing feat they just witnessed. The discussion quickly turned to how this will… Read More ›
