Bob McCouch of Herding Packets comments: Is your company using cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) applications? ThousandEyes can let you monitor the performance and reachability of your SaaS applications from your corporate office, giving you continuous metrics on the services your company relies on. Is your company the purveyor of cloud-based apps? In that […]
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Spirent Avalanche Next
Anthony Burke of Cisco Inferno writes: Spirent provides a focus on network and application testing software. Their traditional markets focused on cloud providers, hardware vendors, and traditional service providers. Recently Spirent has made plays into the Enterprise market with devices such as AXON for enterprise hardware, application, and solution testing. The focus for Spirent at […]
The year of 2013!
Anthony Burke of Cisco Inferno writes: This year we saw the fruits and the go to market of many SDN and network virtualization products. It was great to see Nuage Networks NVP, Cisco ACI, Juniper’s Contrail and OpenContrail andVMware NSX hit the market. There were ripples indeed. VXLANseems to be the de-facto standard rising as […]
Solarwinds RAW
Anthony Burke from Cisco Inferno writes: What felt like a scene from a spy flick, the NFD6 delegates piled in to Aruba’s offices during #NFD6 for the Solarwinds presentation. Before we began I have had dealings with Solarwinds around their NPM Orion platform and was extremely interested in to what they were going to talk […]
Plexxi — Optimized Workload and Workflow
Matt Oswalt from Keeping It Classless writes: Plexxi was a vendor that presented at Networking Field Day 6, and was one that really got me excited about what’s possible when you think about what kind of metadata your data center contains, and what products like Plexxi can do with that data once abstracted and normalized […]
DPI in Controller Networks – Jason Edelman’s Blog
Jason Edelman comments on his blog: What about load balancers and firewalls in these networks? With OpenFlow, the network can be turned into a giant network security device (lightweight FW) and load balancer since you would be predefining what to do with all traffic. Maybe the OpenFlow action is drop for turning a […]
The Point of Software Defined Networking
Carole Warner Reece of Chesapeake Netcraftsmen writes: I’ve been thinking about many of the topics that were discussed in the recent Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) Symposium and Networking Field Day (NFD6) meetings I attended last month. What really stands out for me is that the use case for Software Defined Networking (SDN) is extremely […]
ThousandEyes Peers Into Cloud Performance
Ethan Banks writing for Network Computing discusses ThousandEyes: How does one find the root cause without the provider and IT department pointing fingers at each other? This is the problem that ThousandEyes wants to address. ThousandEyes was founded in January 2010 to address the challenge of network performance management in the cloud era. I saw […]
Tightening the screws
Anthony Burke of Cisco Inferno writes: ThousandEyes offer a different spin on SaaS monitoring. They deliver the ability to gain critical insight into SaaS applications from the Customer point of view and anywhere else you want too. Their distributed agent model allows business to gauge a variety of metrics and leverage real-time application information. This […]
Nuage Networks at Network Field Day 6
Matt Oswalt from Keeping It Classless writes: Nuage is tackling the “rapid provisioning” problem when it comes to networking. How can we convince customers or LoB owners to not push everything up to AWS, when the provisioning mechanisms behind a private solution are not nearly as good? The ultimate goal is to have the network […]