This featured interview with Silver Peak CEO, chairman, and founder, David Hughes, is a part of the ongoing ONUG CEO Corner Series.
The focus of ONUG Spring 2015 was operationalizing open infrastructure, something co-chairman and co-founder, Nick Lippis, addressed in his kick-off keynote. The keynote stressed ONUG’s goal of sustaining the user community’s effort to transform the current siloed IT organizational model into a cloud infrastructure design to more readily adapt to user needs while creating business value.
This featured interview with Glue Networks Co-Founder CEO, Jeff Gray, is a part of the ongoing ONUG CEO Corner Series.
This featured interview with CloudGenix CEO, Kumar Ramachandran, is a part of the ongoing ONUG CEO Corner Series.
This featured interview with VeloCloud CEO and Co-Founder, Sanjay Uppal, is a part of the ongoing ONUG CEO Corner Series.
This featured interview with Avi Networks CEO and Co-Founder, Umesh Mahajan, is a part of the ongoing ONUG CEO Corner Series.
by Marc Woolward Having spent the best part of three decades architecting and operating enterprise infrastructures, including 16 years at Goldman Sachs, it’s clear to me that the security model within the data center represents the last major barrier to our transition to ‘software-defined’ cloud computing architectures. Existing security ‘art’ fails to serve the challenges of the modern software-defined data center in two major ways; it is functionally incompatible with cloud principles, and it fails to provide the required security capabilities.
This featured interview with Viptela CEO, Amir Khan, is a part of the ongoing ONUG CEO Corner Series.
by Nick Feamster Designers of wide-area networks are turning to Software Defined Networking (SDN) to overcome the limitations of existing network protocols for setting up wide-area network configurations. Software Defined WANs (SD-WANs) refer to any wide-area network that is managed by software control; there are generally two types of SD-WANs:
by Mike Cohen & Harry Petty Back in 2011, when software-defined networking was in its infancy, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Citrix, and Red Hat joined together to rethink multi-tenancy and segmentation in the cloud datacenter. The output of this collaboration was Virtual eXtensible Local Area Networks (VXLAN). VXLAN introduced an overlay scheme that expands the layer-2 network address space from 4K to 16 million, largely solving the scaling issues operators were seeing in VLAN-based environments. More importantly, a broad range of networking hardware, ASICS, and hypervisor…
