The Ideal Cloud Network: SDN Overlays, Underlays or Both?
Enterprises are still a complex mix of legacy and newer cloud applications, yet smart use of universal SDN-based cloud...
Separating Hype from Reality in SDN
Lately, two acronyms have been making the rounds: SDN (Software Defined Networking) and ACI (Application Centric...
A New Cloud Network “Spline™” Is Born
The dramatic shift to East-West traffic patterns within the data center is creating excitement, new customer requirements...
Redefining Cloud-Networking Resilience & Visibility
In modern two-tier leaf-spine cloud networks, the increasing dominance of east-west traffic patterns, accompanied by the...
Enabling Network Applications with VMware, Microsoft and the Ecosystem
With the advent of the modern application era in data centers for applications such as business analytics and web services...
The Software Choices for Cloud Networking
These days there is much discussion on “disaggregation” of switches or routers – the splitting of the hardware from the...
Shifting from Enterprise to Cloud with the Arista 7500E
The rapid adoption in data centers of virtualized servers powered by multicore CPUs, the deployment of petabytes of storage...
Bringing SDN to Reality
It is difficult to get one definition of SDN - interpretations vary. The purist would say it’s a separation of the data and...
Celebrating One Million Ports of Software Defined Cloud Networking and Introducing the Arista Data Analyzer (DANZ)
For the past 5 years, Arista has been setting the agenda for software defined cloud networking. We are not addressing the...
Software-Defined Cloud Networking Reflections
Every year I like to reflect upon my beginning of year predictions and compare them with the reality of what actually...