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- Network Virtualization: The New Building Blocks of Network Design
- Business and IT leaders have been demanding an IT infrastructure which is more dynamic and responsive to the quick pace of business while being less costly. By dynamic they mean the ability to deliver new applications at the speed in which to be responsive to market dynamics while creating competitive...
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Virtualization Beyond the Data Center: Increase Network Infrastructure Utilization and Efficiency to Reduce Operational Costs
- The concept of virtualization has gotten renewed attention with the advent of server virtualization in the data center, enabling organizations to simplify management and optimize performance of vast computing and networking infrastructures. Server virtualization, part of the Cisco Unified Computing System, leads to significant cost savings, helping organizations address space,...
- White papers 2009-04-01
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- Network Virtualization for the Campus
- As the demands placed on campus networks have grown in complexity, so has the need for scalable solutions to separate groups of network users and resources into logical partitions. Virtualization of the network provides multiple solutions for centralizing services and security policies while preserving the high-availability, manageability, security, and scalability...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- A Comparative Study on Secure Network Virtualization
- Secure and efficient network virtualization is a key building block for virtualized environments such as data centers or enterprise networks. While machine virtualization alone provides immediate isolation of computing resources such as memory and CPU between guest domains, the network remains to be a shared resource as all traffic from...
- White papers 2008-05-21
- Virtualization: By definition, it's a moving target
- Wikipedia definition In my opinion Virtualization is using a real person or living target and transforming it into a computer graphic as to virtual reality. Wikipedia describes it as below.In computing, virtualization (sometimes abbreviated v12n) is a term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources:Virtual machine VM, a software...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Network Services Virtualization
- Cisco offers a proven, end-to-end Network virtualization solution that spans the entire network infrastructure, from the backbone to every endpoint. Using the Cisco Network Virtualization architecture, organizations can reap the benefits of end-to-end virtualization and policy-driven service orchestration. This shared services architecture enables flexibility and agility while streamlining resources and...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Virtualization 2.0: Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Datacenter Networks
- Server virtualization is now widely accepted as a key method to consolidate computing resources. As companies take advantage of the cost savings of virtualization, they will begin to migrate to what IDC calls Virtualization 2.0 . using virtualization technology to improve business operations and mobility. This document...
- White papers 2008-10-01
- Design a virtualized enterprise network
- This sample chapter from Network Virtualization defines the technical requirements needed to virtualize a network. Then, based on these requirements, it looks at the architectural framework required to successfully support concurrent virtual networks VNs over a shared enterprise physical network. The chapter also discusses the importance of maintaining functionality...
- Book chapters 2006-07-25
- Virtualization: Current Benefits and Future Potential
- This white paper reviews server and storage file and network virtualization technologies from EMC and how virtualization can address the problems of massive data growth and increased infrastructure complexity while supporting cost and performance goals of the enterprise. This paper also discusses the future of virtualization technology. Finally, it also...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Using Virtualization to Provide Interdomain QoS-Enabled Routing
- The most important aspect related with the Internet architecture is its ossification representing the difficulties to introduce evolutions in the architecture as a way to meet the demands posed by the new requirements as mobility, security, heterogeneity, etc. This paper discusses how the network virtualization can be used to support...
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Automating Network Management: Leveraging Dynamic Reconfiguration for Utility Computing
- This white paper outlines how innovations in automating network management can help you dynamically adjust your computing resources to meet changing business needs. The paper explains how you can approach utility computing, an infrastructure model that merges computing resources into a global pool so they can be changed on-the-fly,...
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- Run Linux on your Cisco router with Cisco's new AXP module
- Cisco has been talking about the "network as a platform" for a long time, but what does that actually mean, and what does the AXP network module have to do with it? What is the AXP? The Cisco Application eXtension Platform AXP is made up of a hardware...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Video: Five things you should know about virtualization
- Read and forget: Virtualization is going to cost youVirtualization is very hot, but adding more and more layers of controlling systems is going to change the user experience. Maybe it will not happen today, but get ready.The problem is, that there are not too many tools that measure end-to-end service...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- 10 MORE things you should know about virtualization
- Virtualization has probably affected every IT environment to one extent or the other. Whether you do casual virtualization for test environments or complete virtualization for all systems, there's no one-size-fits-all solution. Here's a rundown of the things you need to know about the whole virtualization space. Note:...
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Storage virtualization may exceed the hype
- The fires of hot topics are usually stoked with hype, but in the case of storage virtualization, the topic actually exceeds the hype. Let me explain why.It's not surprising that many vendors are jumping on the virtualization bandwagon by recasting their legacy products as virtualization engines of some form....
- Technical articles 2001-08-09
- Using virtualization technology in K-12 environments
- By William T. EvansVirtualization is a popular topic when it comes toinformation technology development in the data center. Some of the drive forthis is based on the growth and increased popularity of technologies such as SANs, blade servers, and the recentdevelopments with iSCSI. However, SAN and bladeserver technology only enhance...
- Technical articles 2006-04-27
- Tap into virtualization to reduce costs
- Virtualization is a powerful tool that allows developers and IT professionals to streamline software development, testing, and deployment within their enterprise. With virtualization software you can run multiple x86 operating systems on a single computer. This gives you the ability to run Windows, Linux, or both on a single machine...
- Blog posts 2006-06-17
- Unleash the power of virtualization in your enterprise
- Virtualization is a powerful tool that allows developersand IT professionals to streamline software development, testing, anddeployment within their enterprise. With virtualization software you can runmultiple x86 operating systems on a single computer. This gives you the abilityto run Windows, Linux, or both on a single machine without having to re-booteach...
- Technical articles 2005-10-27
- Unleash the power of virtualization in your enterprise
- Virtualization is a powerful tool that allows developers and IT professionals to streamline software development, testing, and deployment within their enterprise. With virtualization software you can run multiple x86 operating systems on a single computer. This gives you the ability to run Windows, Linux, or both on a single machine...
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Co-Administration is the new virtualization endpoint
- Almost every organization has embraced some amount of virtualization, and the network has surely been a hot topic as a virtual environment scales upward. Most virtual host systems (VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer, etc.) offer host-based switches that implement 802.1Q tagging on the ports to the virtual machines. This poses a...
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
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