Plexxi Pulse – Earnings and Reflections on Interop
Lots of news around SDN this week.
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Plexxi Pulse – Earnings and Reflections on Interop
Lots of news around SDN this week.
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A Network as Smart as You
Since I’ve hopped the fence to the “vendor side,” affectionately known as the “dark side” to some of my peers, I’ve noticed a few things. One is the pervasive delusion that meaningful integration that lowers OpEx and improves the operational experience is someone else’s job or that it’s really not important at all. In fact, [...]
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On Command and Control: Provisioning vs. Configuration
In a well-served market that is rotated towards price and convenience, I have argued that integration will be key. The ease with which new gear can be put in is a more meaningful success indicator than the difficulty of removing it. With insertion in mind, integration with things like OpenStack, Puppet, Chef, CFEngine, and the [...]
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Decide to Leave; Decide to Go
This blog is going to take a slightly different turn than most of the others. I would say that I generally take my leadership responsibilities a bit more personally than many managers I have worked with or for. I believe that mentoring people is one of the best things I can do to ensure that [...]
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Plexxi Pulse – SDN on Fire
Plexxi announced a new partnership with SolidFire this week! SolidFire is a leader in all-solid-state storage systems designed for cloud infrastructure. Our technology integration addresses the performance challenges that commonly plague large-scale cloud infrastructure. Now, our network controller can auto-discover a SolidFire cluster and create an optimized network for SolidFire block storage traffic. This means [...]
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