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Cisco, Extreme join OpenStack to address cloud network technology gap
Cloud networking has taken a back seat to compute and storage in the cloud computing industry, but vendors like Cisco and Extreme know that cloud network standards are essential to successful enterprise deployment of public and private clouds. News | 09 Feb 2011
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Brocade rolls out first switches for Layer 2 data center fabrics
Enterprises see large Layer 2 data center fabrics as the future of virtual server networking. Data center network infrastructure vendors are inching toward delivering this technology. Brocade's VDX switches are the first to market. Article | 17 Nov 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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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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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