Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief among ...

Data centers run an array of computing, storage and network systems that creates management challenges and strains IT resources. There’s a growing need to simplify and automate data center networks to ...

Deploying and managing networks at a higher level of abstraction using network virtualization software is a now prerequisite for most IT organizations. For Deluxe, a printer of checks and other ...

While system virtualization — and to a lesser extent, desktop virtualization — has held most of the virtualization limelight, there is also a growing trend in network virtualization. Most of you in ...

Next generation datacenters are evolving quickly. Bandwidth growth and the need for scalability appears to be unstoppable, yet network designs must find a way to manage these demand costs effectively.

VRFs are to Layer 3 as VLANs are to Layer 2 and delimit the domain of an IP network within a router. The Cisco website has a more formal definition: VRF–A VPN Routing/Forwarding instance. A VRF ...