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Friday, November 2, 2012

After server virtualization there is a time for network to be virtualized

Virtualization become today de facto a standard in almost every company. What about 10 years ago was a revolution in computing it has become a mature product for everyone. But when we look at the history how it was evolving we can see one component to remain unmodified: the network, one of the very few unvirtualized technology bastions.

But today the market is changing. To understand the changes and what all this means I recommend to read at least these 2 blogs:

VMWARE BUYS NICIRA: A HYPERVISOR VENDOR WOKE UP
VMware’s Acquisition of Nicira – VMware confirming the hypervisor is dead

The changes the blogs describe are already happening. As a practical example is a Rackspace Cloud Network product, a hybrid network that was created to leverage the potential in software defined network that data center provider can benefit from.


Further reading & references
  1. http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/nicira-nvp/nicira-nvp-virtualized-networking-primer/
  2. http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/nicira-nvp/the-nicira-nvp-component-architecture/
  3. http://nicira.com/en/frequently-asked-questions 
  4. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/

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