ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence
Jesse Rothstein, who was the lead architect of F5's flagship product line, founded ExtraHop in 2007 to develop products to derive IT operations intelligence from data gleaned from the network. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Rothstein for an update on the company and what it has learned about things like virtual packet loss (hint: it can be the bane of highly virtualized environments).
Written by John Dix • 04 Oct. 13 21:00
Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands
Facebook's head of network operations has great expectations for software defined networking (SDN), though he may not be relying on commercial hardware vendors to bring SDN to the social networking giant's own infrastructure.
Written by Joab Jackson • 04 Oct. 13 20:53
Free open-source SDN app will analyze your network's complexity
Enterprise infrastructure company Infoblox announced this week that it plans to release a free and open-source software tool called Tapestry aimed at generating a hard measurement of any network's complexity.
Written by Jon Gold • 27 Sept. 13 17:13
Apple iOS 7 surprises as first with new multipath TCP connections
Apple's iOS 7 is the first large-scale use of a newly-minted Internet protocol, called multipath TCP. It lets computers send and receive data across different network paths and interfaces at the same time, such as Ethernet, Wi-Fi and 3G.
Written by John Cox • 19 Sept. 13 16:05
Cisco one of investors in log management startup Loggly
Log monitoring platform company Loggly today announced that it has acquired more than $10 million in venture capital funding, and that one of its new investors is none other than Cisco.
Report: Application delivery controller sales up, but WAN optimization slipping
A report on data center networking equipment says that sales of WAN optimization gear fell in the second quarter, but application delivery controllers were on the rise.
Written by Jon Gold • 30 Aug. 13 12:47
ADC: It's a platform, not a product
It was a decade ago, in 2003, when Gartner first defined the application delivery controller (ADC). At that time, ADC was little more than the marriage of load balancing and offload technology.
Written by Lori MacVittie, Senior Product Manager, Emerging Technologies, F5 Networks • 26 Aug. 13 21:05
VMware adds networking, storage to its virtual data center stack
At the kick-off of its annual VMworld user conference, being held this week in San Francisco, VMware will fill in more layers of its software stack for running its envisioned software defined data center (SDDC).
Written by Joab Jackson • 26 Aug. 13 16:22
Ciena, NRENs to test OpenFlow SDN WAN
Ciena this week said it is partnering with a handful of research networks to test a multilayer, software-defined WAN.
Written by Jim Duffy • 07 Aug. 13 19:38
Silver Peak weans WAN optimization customers off hardware with virtualization pitch
WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak apparently sees the writing on the data center's walls, announcing a new program today that offers a free upgrade to a virtual edition of its products to users of its hardware appliances.
Written by Jon Gold • 23 July 13 13:56
Cloud computing swallowing up branch office hardware
The popularization of cloud computing and ubiquitous access to high-speed Internet connectivity mean that the days of the specialized branch office IT appliance are numbered, according to industry sources.
Buyback program intensifies Aryaka/Riverbed rivalry
WAN optimization-as-a-service provider Aryaka has announced an aggressive buyback program that targets competitor Riverbed's customers, adding a new point of contention to an already heated rivalry.
Facebook designing network fabric to meet massive performance needs
With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case.
Written by James Niccolai • 20 June 13 00:17
Startup uses new technology to out-Akamai Akamai
Instart Logic is taking on the likes of Akamai and Amazon Cloudfront with a Web app-streaming service it says can cut in half the time it takes to load pages and applications to wireless devices.
Written by Tim Greene • 14 June 13 17:05
Citrix bakes WAN optimization into branch office hardware
Citrix today announced new models in its CloudBridge line of branch repeater hardware, along with a software update to Version 7.0, which adds WAN optimization capability and direct support for public cloud services.