Network Management Strategies for the CIO
As IT planners contemplate the private cloud, a great deal of emphasis is placed available services and functions at the upper levels of the cloud stack: virtualization, orchestration, multi-tenancy and provisioning. Because this is a new model for service delivery from the data center, it is critical to recognize that service delivery goes across the network, which means just as much attention must be placed at the lower levels of the cloud stack. Specifically, private clouds require more than networking as usual, and implementing private clouds requires a new way of thinking about data center networking.
About the instructor: Ted Ritter is a senior research analyst with Nemertes Research, where he conducts research, advises clients, and delivers strategic seminars. A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Ritter leads Nemertes' research on information stewardship, which includes compliance and the management, access, storage and backup of data.
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Video: Designing the next-generation data center network
When discussing the next-generation data center, it’s a given that we’re talking about how architecture will evolve to handle complex virtualization for the private cloud. In this video, we'll give an overview of the private cloud, address cloud performance and compliance challenges and wrap up with how enterprises can move toward providing the Network as a Service (NaaS).
Webcast: The role of the network in the private cloud
Networking has a central role in building private clouds, but the network as we know it is not sufficient for complex virtualized environments. In this webcast, we'll examine the need for more VLANs, the use of software-defined networking in multi-tenant cloud networks, and how performance and compliance must be addressed in the private cloud.
Tip: Building a private cloud: Is the physical network hostile?
In building a private cloud, engineers seek dynamic provisioning and automation for wide-scale virtualization, but are physical networks hostile to this type of dynamism?
Quiz: Next-Generation Data Center Networks
Test your knowledge of next-generation data center technologies in this five-question quiz. Answer questions on characteristic and challenges of private cloud computing.