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This article is part of the August 2011 Vol. 2, No. 4 issue of Is the network ready for the private cloud?
If you haven’t spent the last few weeks on a forgotten island with no satellite phone coverage, you’ve probably noticed the spiking levels of hype surrounding the newest internetworking technology OpenFlow. The networking industry is obviously in dire need of the next big thing. The last time I saw something similar to this was in the early 2000s when MPLS was supposed to solve every internetworking problem ever envisioned. In those days the levels of hype were so high that someone wrote an April 1st RFC describing the use of MPLS for electricity transport. Read Ivan's IOS Hints Blog Stateless NAT is useless MPLS/VPN common services design Scaling IAAS network infrastructure Like MPLS, OpenFlow won’t bring world peace, cure cancer or discover alien civilizations. It might, however, help change the internetworking environment in the same way Unix and Linux changed the operating system landscape by providing a standard way of configuring forwarding tables in a distributed switching architecture. But that doesn't account for the explosion of OpenFlow ... Access >>>
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Developing a private cloud computing strategy for your network
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Is OpenFlow networking bunk? What vendors don't want to discuss
by Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE No. 1354, Fast Packet Blogger
OpenFlow networking may offer programmable switching in distributed networks, but there are drawbacks, including the fact that someone has to develop using the specification.
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Zappos cloud security strategy: Distributed management
by Rivka Gewirtz Little, Senior Site Editor
Zappos might be owned by cloud king Amazon, but the organization is still grappling with creating a measured cloud security strategy. The answer? Distributed management.
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Networker's guide to private cloud orchestration
by Michael Brandenburg, Technical Editor
Network admins are turning to private cloud orchestration software that uses integrated service catalogues in order to enable automation and on-demand provisioning.
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Is OpenFlow networking bunk? What vendors don't want to discuss
by Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE No. 1354, Fast Packet Blogger
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