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Green networking is the practice of selecting energy-efficient networking technologies and products, and minimizing resource use whenever possible. Definition
Better power supplies and fans are not enough to reduce network power consumption. It's time for network vendors to rethink chip design and packaging.
Microsoft's NVGRE standard offers competition to VMware's VXLAN standard, promising to create more VLANs that stretch across Layers 2 and 3 for multi-tenant cloud networks.
Think VM mobility and follow-the-sun data centers work for high availability and disaster avoidance? Think again. Long-distance migration is still a problem.
The VXLAN standard aims to solve the long-distance VM migration dilemma by enabling extended VLANs across geographically dispersed data centers for a multi-tenant cloud network.
Green networking is the practice of selecting energy-efficient networking technologies and products, and minimizing resource use whenever possible. Definition