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Earlier this year, Open vSwitch received the 2018 Software Systems Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) annual Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) in Los Angeles. The award recognizes a software system that’s been instrumental to SDN research. As the co-originator of Open vSwitch, I was honored to receive the award with my colleague Read more...

VMware helps its customers build and release new IoT products and solutions. In most situations, it’s a challenge to automate the configuration and rollout of IoT solutions, simply due to the scale and variety of systems involved. The AWS Greengrass service from Amazon supports management of IoT devices and provides a UI for interacting with Read more...

By Scott Mathis, SMTS UI/UX, Clarity Design System Team – VMware A year and a half ago, four of us at VMware launched the Clarity Design System. Since then, we’ve gone from a small, scrappy team to being the second most popular open source project at VMware. We’ve learned a lot in the process, so Read more...

By Dave Jaffe, performance engineering, VMware Now available from VMware, the IoT Analytics Benchmark is a simulation of data analytics being performed in real-time on an Internet of Things data stream (i.e. factory machines being monitored for impending failure conditions) using a machine learning model running on Spark Streaming. It can be used as a Read more...

The OVSDB Client Library (short for Open vSwitch Database) open source project recently released on GitHub by VMware’s NSX team enables simple interaction with an OVSDB server. This is a schema-independent OVSDB Java client compatible with the  OVSDB Management Protocol (RFC 7047). Where to Use It Open vSwitch Daemon Configuration Open vSwitch Deamon(ovs-vswitchd) is a Read more...