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CohesiveFT – Cloud containers for Software Defined Networking

CohesiveFT is firmly allied with movements towards Software Defined Networks (SDN), which have been much in the news following VMWare’s decision to acquire Nicira. It takes an ‘application-centric’ approach, while others use a ‘provider controlled’ model. Its advantage? – VNS3 customers can purchase, build and manage their own network appliances and can attest to it being something they’ve done themselves, which can be vital in meeting regulation.

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Software Defined Networking – our new research target

Nicira’s acquisition for $1.05b by VMware has sparked a major discussion about Software Defined Networking (SDN) and the Software Defined Data Centres (SDDC). Equally Fabric Computing developments proposes that networking – in many ways the heart of virtualisation – will itself become ‘pooled’, like virtualised servers, clients and storage today.
It’s difficult to define, but for us Fabric Computing is the a matrix of storage, networking and computing devices linked together …

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‘New Economics’ roundtable at IPEXPO

It is hard to avoid media buzz around big data. For IT professionals, it is even harder to avoid the increase in demand for storage capacity and performance, regardless of big data. While new requirements and analytical efforts correctly prioritise applications and alignment with business, engineers dealing with the delivery infrastructure have been quietly deploying innovative architectures to build sustainability and greater resilience.
Earlier this year, we started looking at the …

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