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HP OpenFlow capable firmware is now GA December 7th, 2011 by Masa OpenFlow capable firmware for HP switches is now available without requiring special license. It can be downloaded by customers/partners from HP’s website. Current version is K.15.05.5001(for OpenFlow researchers only) as Early Availability and here is how I downloaded it: Go to http://www.hp.com/networking/supportYou will be required to sign-in to download the firmware.

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Research Demo Videos These videos demonstrate different research experiments that build on top of OpenFlow. If you have similar videos that demonstrate your research and are interested in hosting them here, please contact Nikhil Handigol. Introduction FlowVisor Demo Aster*x: Load-Balancing as a Network Primitive Using All Wireless Networks Around Me Packet and Circuit Network Convergence ElasticTree: Reducing Energy in Data Center Networks Dynamic Flow Aggregation in an OpenFlow Network Open Pipes: Hardware System Design with OpenFlow Providing MPLS Serviceswith OpenFlow This is a 30 minute 4-part video from a live plenary demo by Stanford researchers at the 9th GENI Engineering Conference held at Washington DC, Nov 2-4, 2010. Part 1- Guido (Intro) Part 2 - Nikhil (Aster*x : Load-balancing as a network primitive) Part 3- KK (Using all wireless networks around us) Part 4 - Guru (Conclusion)

Fabric Project Fabric is a federated, distributed system for securely and reliably storing, sharing, and computing information. It is being developed by the Applied Programming Languages Group at Cornell University. Fabric presents a single-system image of all resources that can be named by it, and provides security guarantees to mutually distrusting principals using it, but it is a decentralized system with no centralized security enforcement mechanism. Software Defined Virtual Networks Background Data networks have enabled extraordinary growth in capabilities such as email, the web, and social media; and today form the technical basis for our information-centric economy[1]. However, current network architectures and processes for technical evolution cannot support the complexity and pace innovation in emerging applications such as Virtualized / Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, ubiquitous Mobile Computing and Big Data Analytics. Today’s industry norm of deploying special purpose, fixed-function hardware appliances (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers) that implement standardized protocols no longer scales with the required pace of innovation for new services, nor the economics of modern virtualized computing. In today’s networking industry, these barriers to innovation result in lead times of years to design and develop new network services and require tremendous capital and operational expenses to deploy and operate new network functions. Context

Tutorial Welcome to the OpenFlow tutorial! OpenFlow is an open interface for remotely controlling the forwarding tables in network switches, routers, and access points. Upon this low-level primitive, researchers can build networks with new high-level properties. A Sixth Thing CIOs Should Know About Big Data Amid the slew of articles offering advice on Big Data, Joab Jackson's, Five Things CIOs Should Know About Big Data. stood out because of how absolutely spot on it was. The five points he makes nearly always come up in our conversations with customers and prospects: You will need to think about big data. What we're seeing now is that the price of entry to big data, at least from a CapEx standpoint, is pretty low. Open source tools like Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, MapReduce and others, combined with the relatively low price of cloud computing, means organizations that may not have been inclined to collect, store and analyze their data volumes are now more willing and able to do so.Useful data can come from anywhere. Data that used to be "dropped on the floor" is one way to categorize big data.

Software Defined Networking (SDN) - Overview Transformation Through Innovation Software Defined Networking (SDN) is enabling organizations to accelerate application deployment and delivery, dramatically reducing IT costs through policy-enabled workflow automation. SDN technology enables cloud architectures by delivering automated, on-demand application delivery and mobility at scale. GENI and IF-MAP Network Instrumentation and Measurement What if you were designing the Internet from scratch? What capabilities would you build into it? How would the protocols work --- would you have chosen TCP/IP?

Raining on the Cloud parade Cloud computing has the potential to save time, money and energy for businesses large and small, but new research shows it remains a source of doubt and even fear, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK. Cloud computing is going to save us all. If you’re talking about time, money and the hassles of technology, that is. ONF Overview - Open Networking Foundation The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is a non-profit, user-driven organization dedicated to accelerating the adoption of SDN & NFV. The merger of ON.Lab with ONF presents member companies a unique opportunity to work with leading network operators to transform networks into agile platforms for service delivery while streamlining network operations by leveraging the DevOps model with cloud, open source and whitebox efficiencies. The SDN movement, first initiated by the ONF, has successfully set in motion the disaggregation of networking devices and control software and fostered the emergence of a broad range of open source platforms. Now, the industry needs a unifying effort to build solutions out of the complexity of the numerous disaggregated components.

Distributed Management Task Force Cloud Management Standards Working to Address Management Interoperability for Cloud Systems Technologies like cloud computing and virtualization are rapidly being adopted by enterprise IT managers to better deliver services to their customers, lower IT costs and improve operational efficiencies. DMTF's Cloud Management Initiative is focused on developing interoperable cloud infrastructure management standards and promoting adoption of those standards in the industry. Tax Issues In Cloud Computing Tax Issues In Cloud Computing Today, taking advantage of computing power has moved toward the subscription model away from the self-management and acquisition model. Through the subscription model, a business enterprise needs to tap into the skills of third-party managers in order to take advantage of the latest tools. The continuous evolution of cloud computing has provided many benefits to business, but it has also affected some of the present tax rules. Through cloud computing, accountants can access information and software anywhere, but location is an important consideration as regards taxation.

SDN 101: An Introduction to Software Defined Networking Over the last year, the hottest topics in networking have been software-defined networking (SDN) and Network Virtualization (NV). There is, however, considerable confusion amongst enterprise IT organizations relative to these topics. There are many sources of that confusion, including the sheer number of vendors who have solutions that solve different problems using different solution architectures and technologies, all of whom claim to be offering SDN and/or NV solutions. To eliminate that confusion, it’s helpful to put SDN into the context of a broad movement to have more of a focus on software based solutions and to identify the key opportunities that SDN can address. It’s also helpful to review both SDN and NV to understand the relationship between these two emerging approaches to networking. Traditional data network

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