Is Software-Defined Networking (SDN) real, or just PowerPoint? Silver Peak founder and CTO David Hughes talks about what’s real and what’s not when it comes to SDN. Hughes highlights that certain hypervisor-centric network elements will be deployed as software in the enterprise, citing the cost and simplicity benefits. Watch this video to learn more and [...]
Six Benefits of Software Defined Networking
Oct 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
There has been lots of talk about how software-defined networking (SDN) will change the face of networking, including reasons for adoption and the unique opportunity made available for the channel to expand its business and improve customer retention. In light of those discussions, I’ve pulled together a list of six benefits for adopting software-defined networking. [...]
What is SDN?
Sep 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s no secret that software-defined networks (SDNs) will change the face of networking. What is often missed, though, is how SDNs will create a unique opportunity for the channel to expand its business and improve customer retention. With the phenomenal success of compute and storage virtualization, application deployments are often limited by network complexity before [...]
Self Service: The Most Understated Reason Why SDNs Will Rock Your World
Aug 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As I noted previously, two surveys give different pictures about SDNs. My take: every enterprise will adopt SDNs, but lower hardware prices will not be the biggest reason. Here’s why: To hear proponents tell it, Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are going to commoditize switching and routing, moving all the expensive intelligence software created by the infrastructure [...]
Eight Reasons to Love SDNs
Aug 20, 2012 by 2 Comments
There’s so much talk about software defined networks (SDNs) and OpenFlow that it’s easy to lose sight of why you actually want SDNs in the first place. So without further ado and with a bit of help from this blog, here are eight reasons to love SDN: Agility. OpenFlow-based SDNs creates flexibility in how the [...]
Triple Your WAN Performance
Jun 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
We’ve heard about a lot of benefits driving SDNs, but this week we found about a new one of particular importance to anyone building multi-site networks: Google is using an SDN to improve its WAN investment by more than three times. Network engineers play a bit of a cat-and-mouse game to get the most of [...]
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