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VMware to make serious network virtualization news VMworld?
A nice find by Stu Miniman at Wikibon. He dug up this video in which VMware's director of research and development Howie Xu previews his session at VMworld, "The Future Direction of Networking Virtualization. News | 13 Aug 2010
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Open vSwitch: Can you use an open source distributed virtual switch?
The Open vSwitch Project offers downloadable code for an open source virtual switch that matches the Cisco Nexus 1000v in distributed virtual switch functionality, including granular traffic and policy control and remote management of virtual network... Article | 26 Jul 2010
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Data center networks and server virtualization: Who has a silver bullet?
Server virtualization has forced network vendors to reinvent the data center network. Everyone has his own vision of how to deliver a network that is optimized for virtual data centers. Enterprises should think twice about just going with their incum... Article | 03 Jun 2010
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Interop 2010's Barb Goldworm Q&A: Virtualization and networking
With Interop 2010 just around the corner, we sat down with Interop 2010 virtualization track chair Barb Goldworm to discuss trends in virtualization and networking. Interview | 22 Apr 2010
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Cisco makes its Nexus 1000v virtual switch less virtual
Network administrators now have the option of making Cisco's Nexus 1000v virtual switch less virtual. The Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Appliance provides a hardware platform for the control plane of Cisco's virtual switch product. This improves virtua... Article | 06 Apr 2010
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IT job security fears over cloud computing? Network jobs still vital
As interest grows around cloud computing, networking pros may fear their jobs will become a casualty. But the cloud poses little threat to IT job security for network and systems admins who adapt. Article | 10 Feb 2010
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New virtual server networking standards to offer network admins control
ProCurve and Cisco have proposed a new set of virtual server networking standards that will give network administrators the visibility and control they've lost to server teams by using virtual switches. Article | 08 Dec 2009
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Virtual switch standards: Let the fighting begin (again)
New virtual switch standards offer networking admins a way to reclaim visibility and management of virtual machines, but they could also intensify the struggle between data center and networking teams. Article | 08 Dec 2009
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Virtual network switches add scalability to server virtualization
Cisco's Nexus 1000v and Arista's vEOS virtual switches manage virtual network connections within ESX host servers. While the switches aim to help network admins, system admins could use them to bypass the networking team altogether. Article | 26 Aug 2009
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Server virtualization standards may fix network management, security
The network security and network management challenges that arise with server virtualization would be more manageable with some industry standardization. Until vendors are willing to settle on some virtualization standard, network professionals will ... Article | 21 Aug 2009