The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief among ...

Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) moves switching out of the server back to the physical network and makes all virtual machine traffic visible to the external network switch, freeing up server ...

There's more virtualization than ever before being installed in data centers. Each host server runs a hypervisor that includes a virtual switch — a piece of software that manages networked data flows ...

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To really revolutionalize networking, virtual networks need to be an underlay or an inlay, not just another type of overlay. The purchase of Nicira by VMware has led to a lot of predictions that the ...

The industry reached a “virtual” tipping point in 2009 when, according to IDC, the number of newly installed virtual machines surpassed the number of newly installed physical servers. This inflection ...

With the remarkable surge in demand for connectivity, the internet has become the communications highway for billions of users. According to “Internet Live Stats,” 4.2 billion people traveled the ...