Software Defined Cloud Networking Options: Overlays or Open Protocols?
The recent rhetoric on SDN (Software Defined Networking) promotes overlay network controllers as an approach to the problem...
Ushering in the Software Defined Cloud Networking Era
Since I last blogged about Software Defined Networking last year industry discussion on this topic has risen to the highest...
Application Based Cloud Networking - The Next Frontier
Networking over the past two decades has mostly been about raw connectivity. Rarely have applications been tuned and...
The Fabric Hype Versus Cloud Networking Simplicity
As we enter 2012, the networking industry faces much need for a return to focusing on simplicity and standards amidst the...
The Role of 10GBASE-T and 40GbE in Cloud Networking
10GbE continues to make strides into data centers. The massive data explosion triggered by bandwidth-heavy content such as...
Celebrating 1000 Customers for Cloud Networking
This month we are celebrating our third year of shipments at Arista Networks growing from 0 to 1000 customers in record...
The Four Pillars of Software-Defined Cloud Networking
Software-defined networking, an exciting buzz word these days really means different things to different folks. Often...
Cloud Networking vs Enterprise Networking – Are We Stretching Investment Protection?
Networking vendors and the IT industry have touted investment protection as a key attribute for many years. This combined...
Big-Data is a Big Deal for Cloud Networking
Once again new applications are pushing the envelope for modern cloud networking, a radical departure from traditional...
Software-Defined Cloud Networking: Hype or Reality?
I have been pleasantly surprised by the rapid adoption in data centers of cloud networking architectures in just the past...