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Vyatta In High Gear

“You hang out with smart people, you get smart friends.”
- Rocky Balboa

Anyone who reads this blog knows why they’re reading it.  They don’t need their advanced perspectives to be validated.  That said…

The news broke this week that Vyatta received a significant financing round from an investment firm comprised of operating executives who know a thing or two about networking, infrastructure and technology disruptions. [Read More]
 

Response Bias or Who Owns the Virtual Network

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.”
- Warren Buffett, famous investor

I was recently asked by a respected Silicon Valley figure, “Why is it that Vyatta’s customers know exactly what virtualized networking problem they’re solving, but when I speak to other IT people I know in  the virtualization arena they say they don’t have that problem?  Or they tell me the networking problem is solved by the vSwitch that every hypervisor now has?  I don’t understand this dichotomy." [Read More]
 

Best Data Center and Cloud Software

InfoWorld's Magazine's Test Center honored Vyatta with our fourth BOSSIE award for our unique ability to solve the networking and security needs of the Cloud & Virtual Data Center. [Read More]
 

VMworld's Virtualization Stall

“That's how things change: slowly at first, then all at once.”
- Ernest Hemmingway

We’re back from VMWorld in Las Vegas, where the industry started viewing their virtualized environments with the same kind of wary eye they cast on a blackjack dealer with shifty eyes [Read More]
 

Vyatta Release 6.3 - Extending Networking in the Cloud

“Every cloud has a silver lining, but it is sometimes difficult to get it to the mint.”
- Don Marquis

For enterprise-focused clouds to truly prosper, they need network virtual machines. With our release 6.3 Vyatta has extended our hard-earned leadership in this exciting arena. [Read More]
 

A Prescription for HIPAA Compliant Security in the Cloud

“I told my doctor I wanted a second opinion. He said, 'Okay, you're ugly too.'”
  – Rodney Dangerfield

As applications continue to shift into cloud-based systems, the importance of architecting the proper supporting infrastructure is paramount. [Read More]
 

Cisco's Poor Appeal

“The lady doth protest too much.”
  – William Shakespeare, Hamlet

I (almost) cringed when I saw the news that Cisco was attempting to out-shout Gartner’s clearly presented research stating that the single-vendor network not only isn’t necessary, but in fact is the antithesis of a cogent IT strategy. [Read More]
 

x86, ASICs and Relativity

“Someone pointed out I had two different-colored socks on.  I said, ‘To me they’re the same; I go by thickness.”
  – Steven Wright

F5′s Lori MacVittle made an interesting post recently arguing the necessity for ASICs (as opposed to x86) in networking infrastructure.  In short she argues that latency is a bad thing in networks and eliminating latency requires ASICs. [Read More]