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There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed ...

With the growth in cloud computing applications, the industry is transitioning from traditional campus enterprise data centers to hyperscale cloud and mega data centers. According to IDC Research, ...

One of the interesting aspects of moving to a top-down, application-centric way of working is rethinking how we do networking. Much as the application model first abstracted away physical ...

The Kubernetes container orchestration tool has redefined how software today is designed and deployed in enterprise computing — changing not only the software world, but the very notion of networking.

Networking, observability, and security for Kubernetes and container networks involve substantial processing overhead. eBPF promises more efficiency, visibility, and control. “No man is an island,” ...

Juniper Networks expanded its Contrail Networking to include better support for Kubernetes environments running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and virtual machines (VMs). The move ...

F5 BIG-IP products help organizations extend the benefits of virtual machines beyond traditional resource limits "F5 solutions occupy strategic points of control in the network, putting us in a great ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Cilium (pronounced ‘see-lee-um’) provides networking, security and observability for cloud native environments by ...