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The Future For Network Engineers

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Like many of you out there, I am a Network Engineer. We have spent much of our professional lives learning about networking technologies. We’ve invested countless hours studying for certification exams, designing customer networks, learning about product capabilities, network scalability, network management and operations. Oh, network operations…dare we count the number of sleepless nights spent Read more...

Video Interview with Martin Casado on Network Virtualization

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In case you missed it at Interop Las Vegas this year, VMware’s Martin Casado joined Rajiv Ramaswami of Broadcom and Rajeev Nagar of Microsoft on a great networking panel moderated by 451 Research Chief Analyst Eric Hanselman.  You can see the full session here. After the session, Martin sat with Steve Wylie, GM of Cloud Read more...

Network Virtualization in Action: Voonami Inc.

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Voonami, Inc., is located in Utah and offers services ranging from traditional co-location to fully hosted, managed cloud applications. Voonami is helping their enterprise customers transition from private cloud to hybrid cloud by simplifying the provisioning and replication of complex application environments. With their existing infrastructure, moving applications around and deploying new applications was costly Read more...

VMware @ Red Hat Summit – More Customer Choice for OpenStack

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Back in April at the OpenStack Summit, VMware had the opportunity to highlight its leadership in OpenStack Networking.  I presented a deep dive technical session about VMware’s network virtualization technology, and Sachin Thakkar demonstrated how VMware technology enables advanced load-balancing, VPN, and firewalling in cloud deployments within OpenStack. To top it all off, networking guru Martin Read more...

Network Virtualization in Action: NTT Communications

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Today we are kicking off a new blog series called “Network Virtualization In Action” where we bring you the voice of the customer discussing their deployments or decisions around network virtualization. Now it goes without saying that Japan has always been known as a technology hot bed. So it seems only fitting that we announced this Read more...

What Is Network Virtualization?

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This post originally appeared on bradhedlund.com, Brad is an experienced networking professional in VMware’s Networking and Security Business Unit, specializing in network virtualization and data center fabrics. Data centers exist for the sole purpose to deploy applications. Applications that automate business processes, serve customers better, enter new markets … you get the idea. It’s all about Read more...

A New Voice In Networking – The Network Virtualization Blog

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Martin Casado, chief architect of networking here at VMware, probably made the understatement of the year in his blog post ahead of Interop Las Vegas when he wrote, “It is a very exciting time to be in networking…” The fact of the matter is we’ve entered into a transformative period in networking unlike anything we’ve Read more...