Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 30, 2014

While Dell isn’t exactly the biggest player in networking, it’s still relevant to note how important their announcement of a bare metal switch is to Software Defined Networking (SDN). The Dell announcement helps bring to reality some of the advantages from a physical network perspective. First, why.

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Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Basically, they are looking to provide programmability to the network via their Application-Centric Infrastructure. This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. Dell – Closest & Top of Rack. F5 – Security/Load Balancing.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

In part 1 of this series, I covered some networking basics (OSI and DoD models; layer 2 vs. layer 3; bridging, switching, and routing; Spanning Tree Protocol; and ARP and flooding). For the purposes of this discussion, I’ll assume that the load balancing is being done based on source and destination IP address.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Todays announcement marks a modest but meaningful step in Egeneras relationship with Dell, and in overall Simplification of IT. Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. Thursday, September 10, 2009. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box.

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Last week I posted a Blog outlining Dell & Egeneras latest Datacenter-in-a-Box offering. They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. The 13th function if provided via the Dell Management Console.)

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Networking. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2019

Gelsinger announces the global availability of VMware Cloud with Microsoft Azure (I’m sure I’m violating some naming/branding stuff here), and also announces the availability of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. Both are build on VMware Cloud Foundation, and the Dell EMC offering leverages VxRail.

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