Ethernet - Juniper Gets 'New' With Data Centers. Juniper Networks Inc. (NYSE: JNPR) is explaining its data center plan today, putting up a software-heavy front to counter the Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) Unified Computing System (UCS). Juniper is calling it the "new network for the data center," and it's the sequel to the regular "new network" for service providers, which got announced in October. (See Juniper Takes Over the Network.) What's key for Juniper is that it's avoiding a direct fight with UCS -- Cisco's all-in-one architecture that includes Cisco-designed servers.
"They're trying to go about it from a different angle. Of course, there's hardware to be had, too. But Juniper's hardware, by itself, isn't knocking 'em dead, according to some observers. "Juniper is far behind Cisco, Arista Networks Inc. , Force10 Networks Inc. , Blade Network Technologies Inc. , and Voltaire Inc. The soft sell It would seem Juniper has a better chance at standing out with its software. . — Craig Matsumoto, West Coast Editor, Light Reading. NOX | An OpenFlow Controller. Nicira. Management Team - Nicira. Nicira & Citrix are Warming Up. January 18, 2010 Randy Bias Some exciting news on the open cloud front. Nicira’s openvswitch (think: open source Cisco Nexus 1000V) made it in as the default vSwitch in the latest release of the Xen Cloud Platform. For those who aren’t aware, the Xen Cloud Platform is an open source provider/cloud-focused management framework for clouds.
The website says: Xen Cloud Platform offers ISVs and service providers a complete cloud infrastructure platform with a powerful management stack based on open, standards-based APIs, support for mutli-tenancy, SLA guarantees and deteailed metrics for consumption based charging. I’ve mentioned Nicira before in public forums and videos made with John Willis, but I haven’t posted here about them. From the website: In a classical router or switch, the fast packet forwarding (data path) and the high level routing decisions (control path) occur on the same device.
Let me clarify what I mean by complete control before anyone is offended. The Lippis Report » Download Library » Lippis Report 149: High E. In Lippis Report 148 we reviewed the major drivers and trends that are propelling the high-end data center Ethernet switch market to well over a $1B annual run rate. In this Lippis Report Research Note, we review the major suppliers of these switches.
We review Cisco, Arista Networks Force10 Networks, BLADE Network Technologies, HP/3Com/H3C, Voltaire, Avaya, Brocade, and Juniper and identify their unique positions and offerings to participants in the burgeoning market. Our focus is the high-end, high density 10GbE switches that are enabling virtualized cloud computing data centers thanks to Terabits per second of back plane switching capacity, billions of packets per second of layer 2/3 forwarding, hundreds of 10GbE port connectivity per chassis, a new two-tier architecture, microsecond level latency, low power consumption, non-stop operation and software hooks that eliminate network barriers to large scale server virtualization.
Cisco Systems Nexus Family of Switches Avaya’s VSP 9000. G U R U P A R U L K A R. Where Are the Network Virtual Appliances? Hobbled By the Virtual. Allan Leinwand from GigaOm wrote a great article asking “Where are the network virtual appliances?” This was followed up by another excellent post by Rich Miller. Allan sets up the discussion describing how we’ve typically plumbed disparate physical appliances into our network infrastructure to provide discrete network and security capabilities such as load balancers, VPNs, SSL termination, firewalls, etc.
He then goes on to describe the stunted evolution of virtual appliances: To be sure, some networking devices and appliances are now available in virtual form. Switches and routers have begun to move toward virtualization with VMware’s vSwitch, Cisco’s Nexus 1000v, the open source Open vSwitch and routers and firewalls running in various VMs from the company I helped found, Vyatta. I’ve written about this many, many times. Why? What does this mean? Situation normal. /Hoff. Rational Survivability - THE Cloud & Virtualization Security Blo. So-called Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) are those that extend “traditional port firewalls” with the added context of policy with application visibility and control to include user identity while enforcing security, compliance and productivity decisions to flows from internal users to the Internet.
NGFW, as defined, is a campus and branch solution. Campus and Branch NGFW solves the “inside-out” problem — applying policy from a number of known/identified users on the “inside” to a potentially infinite number of applications and services “outside” the firewall, generally connected to the Internet. They function generally as forward proxies with various network insertion strategies. Campus and Branch NGFW is NOT a Data Center NGFW solution. Data Center NGFW is the inverse of the “inside-out” problem.
Campus and Branch NGFWs need to provide application visibility and control across potentially tens of thousands of applications, many of which are evasive. They don’t. /Hoff.