April 30, 2013 by
It must be Spring; news is blooming everywhere.
This week there is a lot of coverage about Brocade’s On-Demand Data Center strategy. For that matter, the last three weeks have also held a lot of news on the topic of data centers and networking, including news from the 3,000-attendee OpenStack Summit and 2,000-attendee Open Networking Summit. Clearly there’s change in the air.
With change comes opportunity, and also challenge. The industry is not short on the hype...
December 20, 2012 by
“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
- John F. Kennedy
2012 … what a year for Vyatta!
We entered the year announcing our one-millionth download. Midstride Vyatta delivered its 15th major software release and launched in the AWS Marketplace. Now we prepare to exit the year standing on the broad shoulders of a global IT parent company dedicated to bringing modern...
November 5, 2012 by
Today, Brocade announced plans to acquire Vyatta ... and we couldn't be more proud!
It's been a fascinating journey to get to this next level. They say you can always tell the pioneers by the number of arrows in their back, but for the record will clearly show these three forces that drove us:
1 million downloads. It all started with our pioneering belief that software networking could go viral. It did, and the Vyatta community grew in the way self-organizing communities do. Today,...
October 18, 2012 by
Back to the blog for my second visit! I really did mean to post more often, but it’s been busy here. I half wrote quite a few and they would have been great. Really.
Anywho, I digress…
Today is the release of VSE 6.5. There are a lot of new features, but I will focus on just a few.
In VSE 6.4 we introduced an experimental 64 bit version. This was enthusiastically received and we have now made it official. With the 4G 32 bit addressable memory limit removed, routing tables can grow...
August 27, 2012 by
"That's how change happens: Slowly first, then all at once."
- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Virtualization is driving a very interesting dichotomy in adoption of software-based networking.
On the one hand there's the adoption of discrete networking components within virtualized servers. It started with virtual switches, and moved up to virtual routers/firewalls/VPNs. That adoption pattern has taken off like a scalded cat; vSwitches are...
July 23, 2012 by
"The times, they are a-changin'..."
- Bob Dylan
Today, VMware announced the price they're willing to pay to get into the rapidly-growing Software Defined Networking space: $1.2 billion to acquire Nicira.
This underscores just how phenomenal the surge is that's powering interest in SDN. The simple facts are irrefutable: Virtualization and Cloud have fundamentally altered compute and storage architectures, and networking now must adapt.
And it's early. Recent...
May 16, 2012 by
"The best way to sound relevant is to put 'dot-com' after everything you say dot com."
- Conventional wisdom circa 1995
Last week at Interop you couldn't swing a stick without hitting a vendor booth emblazoned with "SDN" or "Software Defined Networking." Clearly the hype cycle is still in ascension phase and buzzword compliance is in full swing.
It's not letting up, either. Some vendors are leapfrogging their own SDN messaging by now declaring the...
April 17, 2012 by
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
- Elbert Hubbard
Silicon Valley is so hip it can barely see over its own pelvis.
Take a look at two events just this week: the Open Network Summit and the OpenStack Conference. Both are very interesting, but the attendees are typically not mainstream enterprises. The discussions are all around great and promising things...
April 10, 2012 by
I first joined Vyatta back in January as a consultant to, well, consult with the engineering team. I enjoyed working with the team so much that I joined the company full-time and now serve as the VP of Product and Engineering. For more information on my background, visit our Management page.
Almost as a joining gift, Vyatta Subscription Edition (VSE) 6.4 was released on April 2nd. One of the most compelling upgrades is the expanded GUI with two additional tabs – Dashboard and Statistics....
April 3, 2012 by
Today is an interesting day: Citrix puts CloudStack into the Apache Foundation. Don’t underestimate the boldness…
Vyatta is proud to lend our support to this important industry dynamic. We now have the Four Horsemen of cloud platforms: Amazon, VMware, OpenStack and CloudStack. Each is different. So at the highest level, what does it all mean?
That’s simple. It means choice.
History shows that widely adopted IT models tend to begin with prolonged periods of vendor lock-in...
