Big Cloud Fabric 3.0 facilitates new-age networking through an external SDN controller ... as well as support for VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO)," it said. [Click on image for larger view.]Big ...

Martin Casado says NSX gives Nexus 5000 and 7000 users the SDN features they want without ripping and replacing hardware ...

Open Networking Foundation defines ''a network control plane ... hardware-driven while VMware's centers completely on software. A simple SDN architecture looks like the diagram below: According ...

“It’s too early in the evolution of SDN to draw conclusions about which approach will win or the exact architecture ... control—that can work with existing XenServer, Xen, KVM or VMware ...

rather than building an SDN controller that would talk to switches. ”PLUMgrid’s people are an obvious fit for VMware, as the company boasts experts in network virtualization, security, and OpenStack,” ...

In the application policy context, OpFlex is analogous to the open source-based OpenFlow protocol in the decoupled control/forwarding SDN architecture ... the industry.” VMware is also a member ...

VMware was a latecomer to software-defined networking, but its $1.2 billion acquisition of SDN startup Nicira ... calls a "distributed clustered controller architecture." The software system ...

VMware is apparently fed up with Cisco talking trash about its NSX software-defined networking technology. So now it's responding with some rhetoric of its own. On Wednesday, Hatem Naguib, vice ...

VMware, a subsidiary of Dell ... as opposed to creating an SDN controller to dictate instructions to switches. The startup recently announced a partnership with Quanta Cloud Technology to provide ...

Ciena Corp. unveiled a software portfolio featuring a multilayer software-defined networking (SDN) controller and associated ... The Multilayer WAN Controller "delivers an open, modular architecture ...