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• Discover key OpenStack deployment methods for networks

  In this book excerpt, explore best practices for OpenStack deployment methods, and glean expert advice on how to achieve an efficient OpenStack network deployment.  Continue Reading

• Agile for infrastructure requires major cultural shift

  To realize the benefits of Agile for infrastructure, network teams must think differently about how to deliver services -- embracing radical change and a trial-by-error approach.  Continue Reading

• Discover 5 key cloud networking basics for your organization

  Clear away the fog, and explore these five key cloud networking fundamentals -- such as models, challenges and tools -- you need to know before you adopt a cloud network strategy.  Continue Reading

• 3 potential multi-cloud challenges that could go unnoticed

  Disaster recovery, vendor lock-in and cost are major factors as organizations evaluate multi-cloud strategies. However, these pros can become cons if teams aren't careful.  Continue Reading

• Cloud-native deployment isn't for every application

  In this roundup of networking blogs, analysts evaluate cloud-native deployments, the increasing value of Wi-Fi and the emergence of Citizens Broadband Radio Service.  Continue Reading

• Cloud exchange provider deploys Blue Planet orchestration

  In this case study, a Denver-based colocation and cloud exchange provider explains how Ciena's Blue Planet orchestration technology has helped make over its cloud exchange.  Continue Reading

• How cloud network services affect transformation and security

  In this roundup of networking blogs, experts dive into three facets of networking that cloud can affect: network transformation, planning and security.  Continue Reading

• When moving cloud on premises, ask these important questions

  In this recap of industry blogs, networking analysts discuss moving cloud on premises, per-application ADC innovation and how cyberattackers target the C-suite.  Continue Reading

• Consider these 3 fundamentals of cloud architecture

  In this roundup of networking blogs, experts explore three networking fundamentals of cloud architecture for both public and private cloud networks.  Continue Reading

• How cloud network architecture can redesign the enterprise edge

  Networks are changing at the edge, and maintaining edge connectivity is crucial. Cloud network advancements are transforming connectivity options, as well as WANs and SD-WANs.  Continue Reading

• Cloud connectivity tests the bond between enterprises, WAN providers

  Collaborating on cloud connections can strengthen or strain relationships between enterprises and service providers. Service-level agreements, in particular, can be tested.  Continue Reading

• Options for DNS in networking address growing challenges

  A need for modern DNS in networking has grown out of increased cloud use and distributed applications. Now, vendors are offering these services for internal enterprise use.  Continue Reading

• Enterprises use network security in the cloud to combat threats

  The market for network security in the cloud is growing as enterprises shift workloads to the cloud to combat potential data breaches and system threats.  Continue Reading

• What cloud data center interconnect technologies can do

  Data center interconnect technologies and services now use cloud. Learn how CDCI improves traffic delivery and how to choose the right equipment and services.  Continue Reading

• Distributed networks, cloud bring new focus on SD-WAN security

  Enterprises are more focused on SD-WAN security as they increase connectivity among branches and determine how best to protect their users and devices from a growing threat landscape.  Continue Reading

• ZeroStack private cloud management wins Innovation Award

  Deploying a private cloud isn't for the meek. Learn why ZeroStack received a Network Innovation Award for its private cloud management software.  Continue Reading

• Network hardware components scrutinized as apps move to cloud

  Networking pros make business-critical decisions about where to house their network hardware components -- on-premises or managed in a service provider's cloud.  Continue Reading

• Networking trends 2017: Cloud, wireless, pace change

  Networking trends like cloud computing, virtualization and SDN continue to shape enterprise strategy while managers eye potential for IoT and data analytics.  Continue Reading

• Adobe multicloud strategy transforms network engineering

  Adobe created a multicloud strategy to connect to public clouds like AWS and Azure. One Adobe networking pro talks about how the new approach changed its definition of networking.  Continue Reading

• Multi-cloud architecture takes hybrid cloud to new heights

  As hybrid cloud use takes hold, enterprises need to create a multi-cloud architecture that integrates different cloud platforms to seamlessly route data from one cloud environment to another.  Continue Reading

• Ixia CloudLens Public gets Network Innovation Award

  Cloud visibility challenges force many enterprises to pull back on their cloud migration strategies. But Ixia CloudLens Public might be one way to assuage those fears.  Continue Reading

• Enlightened shadow IT policy collaborates with users

  A cloud-era shadow IT policy still needs to manage risk, but the era of "no way" is giving way to allow users quick access to the productivity apps they need.  Continue Reading

• Networked cloud emerges to meet evolving infrastructure needs

  Some enterprise network managers are beginning to move networking out to the cloud, as they sort out how to best meet their organizations' evolving infrastructure needs.  Continue Reading

• Need for speed: Demand for faster DCI technology grows

  As the amount of traffic traveling between data centers explodes, both enterprises and service providers look for high-octane data center interconnect options.  Continue Reading

• In-house network test labs fall out of favor in cloud era

  In the era of cloud integrations and frequent network changes, fewer organizations are building in-house network test labs, relying instead on virtual and third-party tests.  Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud application delivery: Challenges and success stories

  Networking in hybrid clouds has been a complex task, and that includes optimizing application delivery and performance. Find out how some IT pros are overcoming those challenges.  Continue Reading

• What is the network’s role in a cloud computing service?

  Download this free chapter excerpt from “Designing Networks and Services for the Cloud” to learn how networks can make a cloud computing service more reliable and secure.  Continue Reading

• Cloud networks need careful planning, not just more bandwidth

  Cloud computing has fundamentally changed the way enterprises deploy and use IT resources. So what does it mean to build a cloud network?  Continue Reading

• 25 Gigabit Ethernet: Why that, why now and what's next

  If you blinked, you may have missed it: A consortium formed this summer to develop a 25 Gigabit Ethernet specification, with plans to have 25 Gbps switches shipping in two years. Here's why the industry is in such a hurry.  Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud: Who's in control when public and private clouds collide?

  There's plenty of potential in unifying public and private cloud resources, but there are also hybrid cloud challenges that make the IT team question its role.  Continue Reading

• Network Innovation Award: Polycom CloudAXIS extends video to browsers

  Polycom CloudAXIS, winner of SearchNetworking's Network Innovation Award, enables internal and external users to join video calls with just a browser.  Continue Reading

• How virtual switching integrates the network edge

  Learn how a cloud provider and a collocation center use virtual switching to integrate physical and virtual networks.  Continue Reading

• Overlays may be the best path forward for networking

  Vendors VMware, Big Switch, Cisco, and others are working to come up with the ‘winning’ overlay approach to creating virtual network abstractions.  Continue Reading

• Integrating physical and virtual networks: Virtual switching tactics

  In order to make networks flexible enough to support cloud orchestration, engineers will have to bridge physical and virtual networks.  Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud networking falls short, but not for long

  Hybrid cloud networking falls short of enabling total orchestration across public and private clouds. Software-defined networking, network virtualization and orchestration tools will change that.  Continue Reading

• A primer on northbound APIs: Their role in a software-defined network

  This primer explores the concept of SDN northbound APIs, their key benefits, who's using them and why.  Continue Reading

• Software defined networking for the private cloud network bottleneck?

  Manual networks stifle the otherwise automated private cloud. Can software defined networking and network virtualization solve the problem?  Continue Reading

• Application networking: Cisco may be killing ACE, but not WAAS!

  Cisco is killing ACE, but not WAAS. In a world where application networking involves load balancing and WAN optimization, can Cisco win?  Continue Reading

• IBM DOVE: Big Blue enters the network virtualization battleground

  Look out Nicira and Big Switch, IBM is developing a network virtualization strategy that relies on its own virtual network overlay technology.  Continue Reading

• Opinion: Big Switch's OpenFlow play is big news for cloud networking

  Cloud services require a more dynamic approach to networking like OpenFlow offers. Big Switch Networks' cloud networking play, Open SDN, appears to be a promising answer.  Continue Reading

• Commentary: Cisco may lead in cloud networks if it does OpenFlow right

  Networking vendors haven't met providers' needs for cloud networks. But Cisco's reported commitment to OpenFlow and SDN may change the game, says commentator Tom Nolle.  Continue Reading

• OpenFlow protocol primer: Looking under the hood

  We know the OpenFlow protocol can be used to abstract the network control plane from underlying physical infrastructure, but how exactly does the protocol work?  Continue Reading

• Developing a private cloud computing strategy for your network

  Engineers need better automation and monitoring tools for private cloud.  Continue Reading

• Navigating the road to flatter, converged data center networks

  IT professionals explore the process of building converged data center networks based on expectations of vendors’ promises, as well as their reservations, the benefits and technicalities of this technology.  Continue Reading

• Free WAN optimization software, NetEx HyperIP, gives incentive to virtualize

  Until the end of 2011, NetEx is offering a free one-year subscription of its WAN optimization software, NetEx HyperIP -- giving enterprises even more incentive to virtualize.  Continue Reading

• Virtual cluster switching: Finding management in a flat network

  Using virtual cluster switching, the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging manages dozens of switches as one switch in a flat Layer 2 network for high-performance computing.  Continue Reading

• Networking technology trends 2010: Cloud networking and virtualization

  Based on our most read networking topics, cloud computing networking and network monitoring are at the top of 2010’s networking technology trends. The other networking topics that ranked high among our readers feature the impact of virtualization on...  Continue Reading

• USENIX LISA 2010: Special coverage

  USENIX LISA 2010 is a conference covering large installation systems administration. Keep up-to-date on all SearchNetworking.com coverage from San Jose here, and don't miss a single update from USENIX LISA 2010.  Continue Reading

• Data center network convergence? Not yet, but worth the conversation

  At the Interop New York 2010 conference, data center network convergence strategies will be discussed, but users aren't yet ready to invest or even choose which data center network convergence strategy they believe in.  Continue Reading

• Interop New York: Cloud conversation … still a bit foggy

  The Interop cloud computing track will include lots of information about moving applications to the public cloud, but users will be more concerned with trying out the private cloud as a first step. Interop cloud conference sessions will address pain...  Continue Reading

• Interop New York: Flat networks and the end of spanning tree

  The move to flat networks and away from spanning tree will continue at Interop New York where each networking vendor will try to convince users that their specific technology is the best for a dynamic cloud environment.  Continue Reading

• Juniper cloud computing strategy: The company reboots

  Analysts hailed the Juniper cloud computing strategy, which includes the 2.6 terabit-per-second Trio chipset in its MX switches, and open API application platforms.  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing networks: Architecture goes flat?

  Vendors went wild marketing cloud computing network components and flat architecture in 2009, expecting enterprise hybrid cloud services to take off at rapid pace in coming years.  Continue Reading