Markus Nispel / Data center, OneFabric / End to end visibility, Mobility, Virtualization / 0 Comment
A while ago I was providing some insight in one of my blogs around DCI and its requirements. Within the network fabric specifically one should focus on the following challenges that need to be addressed as part of a DCI solution VM mobility introduces challenges on how to optimize east/west and north/south traffic at L2 [...]
Markus Nispel / Cloud Computing, Data Centers / Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Virtualization / 0 Comment
After customers deploy virtualization to consolidate servers and become more flexible the focus is on even higher agility, cost and resource optimization across the data center and even between data centers. To achieve this customers demand solutions that create a single elastic pool of network, compute and storage resources across all of their data centers [...]
Salvador Ferrer / Architecture, Data Centers / data center design, Virtualization / 0 Comment
The need for greater application availability has forever changed the way today’s modern data centers are operating. Businesses of all sizes are on the hunt for solutions that will keep their networks scalable while ensuring that the data and applications they need remain available, wherever and whenever they need them. It’s because of these demands that [...]
Markus Nispel / Data center, Software Defined Networks / Fabric Computing, OneFabric, SDN, Virtualization / 0 Comment
As highlighted before a simplified architecture results in a smarter data center solution. Taking an architectural approach that allows the enterprise IT to use common tools, products, protocols and standards across the whole network infrastructure reduces both cost and risk while providing a much greater level of flexibility and agility to deliver applications from the [...]
Markus Nispel / Data center, Software Defined Networks / Cloud Computing, Data Center, SDN, Virtualization / 1 Comment
What is the enterprise data center? What are its characteristics? Recent data from analysts like Dell’Oro suggest that 70% of the data center market is actually found within the enterprise. The remaining 30% is split equally between the big “single application – Web 2.0” organizations like like Google, Facebook, Salesforce, service provider data centers and [...]
Markus Nispel / Software Defined Networks / Data Center Networking, Mobility, SDN, Software Defined Networking, Virtualization / 2 Comments
As I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, the need for more agile and flexible IT services continues to increase. Software Defined Networking, or SDN, has emerged as a viable solution that addresses the need for security, virtualization, manageability and mobility in today’s networks. In an upcoming webinar I will be co-hosting with my colleague Ali [...]
Markus Nispel / Software Defined Networks / Enterasys, MDM, OneFabric, SDN, unified communications, Virtualization / 1 Comment
My very first blog on SDN was centered on the fact that the industry was too focused on technical details rather than the value of SDN for customers. I touched on some use cases but I did not describe them in detail. One of our competitors’ announcements in the last few weeks highlighted their available [...]
Markus Nispel / Software Defined Networks, Uncategorized / Data Center Networking, SDN, Virtualization / 0 Comment
SDN can be a key technology to simplify virtualized and cloud data centers – some think that this is the sole purpose of SDN. But SDN goes well beyond that. In fact, at this point we have not only a healthy mix of early SDN deployments inside of the data center but also at the [...]
Enterasys Networks / Uncategorized / Access Edge, BYOD, CIO, Data Center, Networking, Virtualization, Wi-Fi, Wireless / 0 Comment
In this edition of my vBlog, I discuss the strategic role networking plays in application delivery and better overall IT performance. Networking as a true value enabler for the enterprise is missing. CIO discussions today focus on virtaulization, application delivery, BYOD and mobility initiatives, but not from a holistic way of viewing their network as [...]
Enterasys Networks / Uncategorized / Enterasys, Townsend, VDI, Virtual Desktops, Virtualization, VMware, VMware PEX / 0 Comment
The 2012 VMware Partner Exchange conference was a fantastic event. As I blogged earlier, the event was well attended and the speakers for the event were engaging and provided a clear vision of where VMware believes the market is headed and how to execute on that. A key takeaway I had was the consistency in [...]
