Network Virtualization News & Support Resources

September 23, 2008

Companies Deliver Joint Solutions to Incorporate Cisco Virtual Networking Capabilities Into VMware Infrastructure and Improve Performance of Virtual Desktops Across Wide-Area Networks Industry leaders in virtualization Cisco announced that they are collaborating to deliver joint data center solutions designed to improve the scalability and operational control of virtual environments. The Cisco Nexus(R) 1000V distributed virtual […]

TBD Networks Extends Proven Network Virtualization Solution to Physical and Virtual Firewalls

September 3, 2008

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TBDVirtualFabric fills the gap between VMware and Cisco in virtual datacenters. TBDVirtualFabric-VMware Edition (VME) provides the missing pieces for companies to realize the full benefits of Datacenter Virtualization by unifying physical and virtual firewalls and network infrastructure. Based on the industry’s only proven Network Virtualization solution scaleable to over 30,000 Virtual Network endpoints, TBDVirtualFabric-VME was […]

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Networking

Cisco Wants to Virtualize Your Datacenter

July 1, 2008

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Without a doubt virtualization is a hot topic in IT, though often it’s thought of just in the server consolidation context. Cisco Systems is now expanding its virtualization efforts to encompass the entire datacenter environment with a trio of updated releases. Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) software release 4.1, Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) […]

Virtualization Management – Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008, Part 1 of 2

June 12, 2008

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It’s Day 2 of Tech-Ed 2008, and my first session of the day is VIR253, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Overview, Part 1 of 2. Part 2 will be later this morning. I’ve got a seat right by the doors to the breakout session, so I’m hoping that the wireless LAN will hold […]

Why Do Organizations Adopt Virtualization Technology – Part 2

August 22, 2007

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In the post Why do organizations adopt virtualization technology?, I tried to present some of the goals organizations have discussed for why they embarked on the journey to a virtualized environment and then tie those goals to which type of virtualization they chose first. The reasons for using access, application and processing virtualization technology were […]

Gartner Reports Virtualization could slash IT budgets

November 7, 2006

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Computing costs are set to fall as a new wave of infrastructure technology helps companies to consolidate their security network devices, experts said on Tuesday. According to research presented by Stephen Prentice, general vice-president of hardware research for Gartner, companies could make massive savings by using ‘virtualized’ networking in favor of a selection of hardware […]

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Networking

Storage

The Network Virtualization Frontier – Virtualizing with Incipient NSP

July 3, 2006

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As I mentioned just over a week ago, we’ve been beta evaluating a storage area network based storage virtualization platform (Incipient’s NSP – www.incipient.com ) for potential future use here at the City. I mentioned at that time that I’m impressed with the product, and eager to see it released into the marketplace. At that […]