Cisco’s Data Center Fabric Vision And Customer Business Outcomes

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Cisco is the only large vertical IT supplier with compute, storage and deep networking capabilities making its data center offering unique. It’s Unified Network Services or UNS, Unified Computing System or UCS, Unified Fabric and policy based management make up…

Andy Bechtolsheim on Arista Networks and the Evolution of Cloud Networking

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Andy BechtolsheimAndy Bechtolsheim, Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman of Arista Networks, joins me to discuss how the public and private data center cloud network market is emerging and the new type of networking it’s requiring.

10GbE DC Fabric Test Vendor Announcement

Nick Lippis of the Lippis Report announces the participating vendors in the 10GbE Data Center Network Fabric test at the iSimCity lab during the week of Dec 6-10, 2010.  Watch it here

Lippis Report 159: Cisco’s Borderless Green Network Service

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A Comprehensive Approach to Corporate and Government Energy Cost Savings and Carbon Reduction

Being green is increasingly being forced upon IT business leaders from their management, government regulations and societal pressures. Ask a recent college grad what is the number one…

Lippis Report 208: A Robust Underlay to Support a Hyper Growth and Dynamic Overlay

nicklippis.jpgAt the Open Networking Users Group or ONUG this past February in Boston at Fidelity Investments, Chief Network Architects (CNAs) from the largest corporations discussed their Software-Defined Networking or SDN plans, obstacles, requirements and experiences. Two key systemic messages from…

The Visibility Fabric Architecture–A New Approach to Traffic Visibility

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The volume of digital information created and replicated will grow from 1.8 trillion gigabytes in 2011 to 7.9 trillion gigabytes in 2015. IDC

By 2014 70% of IT risk and security officers in the Global 2000 will be required to…

Best Practices for Network Monitoring

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IT teams are under big pressure to improve the performance and security of corporate networks. Monitoring for security, compliance, and performance requires getting the right data to the right monitoring tool for analysis. This paper describes the capabilities of…

A Software-Defined Networking Approach to Branch Office Routing

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Cloud and mobile computing deployment has accelerated at a fantastic pace over the last five years, changing the economics of where computing and storage are located, how applications are written and accessed, and most importantly, how corporate computing…

Cisco’s Catalyst 6500 Now Supports A VSS With Four Sup2Ts Ushering Next Generation Campus Backbone Reliability Design

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Charles_Okochu_Ciscos_Catalyst_6500_Now_Supports_A_VSS_With_Four_Sup2Ts_Ushering_Next_Generation_Campus_Backbone_Reliability_DesignTo assure 100% throughput, that is no packet loss or network performance degradation takes place during an inter-chassis switch over, Cisco invested in its third generation of Virtual Switch System or VSS. It introduced support for four Supervisors within a…

Cisco Enhances VXLAN: Eliminates IP Multicast Requirement, integrates virtual services via vPath plus connects to legacy networks

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Han_Yang_Cisco_Enhances_VXLAN_Eliminates_IP_Multicast_Requirement_integrates_virtual_services_via_vPath_plus_connects_to_legacy_networksCisco introduced enhancements to its VXLAN implementation in the Nexus 1000V virtual switch that overcomes the requirement for IP Multicast. In addition Cisco is integrating vPath to VXLAN for service insertion that stitches virtual services into VXLAN overlay tunnels. Network…

Ixia/Anue ‘s Larry Hart On Its SDN Network Visualization Strategy

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Larry_Hart_On_Its_SDN_Network_Visualization_StrategyAs the need for visibility of applications flowing inside networks grows, network architecture itself is changing thanks to network plus server virtualization in data centers, and now Software-Defined Networking. Also trends like BYOD, virtualization, and application mobility are bringing complexity…

Open Industry Active-Active Cloud Network Fabric Test for Two-Tier Ethernet Network Architecture

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For the first time in the networking industry a benchmark has been created to measure a cloud network fabric that utilizes active-active protocols. In the Open Industry Active-Active Cloud Network Fabric Test for Two-Tier Ethernet Network Architecture report, Arista, Avaya,…

Gigamon’s Shehzad Merchant On The Killer SDN App: Network Visualization

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Shehzad_Merchant_On_The_Killer_SDN_App_Network_VisualizationAs the need for visibility of applications flowing inside networks grows, network architecture itself is changing thanks to network plus server virtualization in data centers, and now Software-Defined Networking. Also trends like BYOD, virtualization, and application mobility are bringing complexity…

Edward Martinez, CIO of Miami Children’s Hospital Takes Wi-Fi To The Next Level

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Miami Children’s Hospital or MCH deployed an 802.11n Wi-Fi network some two years ago to support their Clinical EMR deployment, which enabled clinicians and physicians to access applications such as PowerChart via mobile devices. The Wi-Fi network also enabled BYOD…

Lippis Report 207: The Killer SDN Applications: Network Virtualization and Visualization

nicklippis.jpgAt the last Open Networking User Group (ONUG) meeting in Boston organized with partner Fidelity Investments, it became very clear that there are two killer SDN applications: network virtualization and visualization. Some argue that network virtualization used for VM-VM networking is…

The Visibility Fabric Architecture–A New Approach to Traffic Visibility

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The volume of digital information created and replicated will grow from 1.8 trillion gigabytes in 2011 to 7.9 trillion gigabytes in 2015. IDC

By 2014 70% of IT risk and security officers in the Global 2000 will be required to report…

The Open Industry Network Performance & Power Test for Cloud Networks Evaluating 10/40 GbE Switches Winter 2013 Edition

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The Arista 7150S-24 SFP Data Center Switch is the fastest Top of Rack Switch we have ever tested in this series of public test. Find out just how fast the 7150S-24 can forward packets in your network by reviewing the…

The Virtual Blind Spot Best Practices for Monitoring Virtual Environments

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The “many in” notions that VMs are built upon become problematic when trying to trace a packet, or analyze packet flow. Even worse, in most organizations, the teams that handle the physical network are different than those that handle…