Knowledge
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08.3.2018Faster cloud orchestration development
Swisscom turned to NIL to help them quickly finish the integration of VMware vRealize Automation tools into their new business cloud.
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08.1.2018New data center and WAN architecture. How to choose?
Cisco ACI or VMware NSX? What to automate? How to integrate private and public clouds? We helped an international bank choose the next-gen data center and WAN infrastructure.
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24.5.2017Management and Orchestration in Complex and Dynamic Network Environment
Author: Rok Arzenšek
Learn how standardization can contribute to a successful service orchestration in the SDN environment and what can be achieved by proper system design.
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20.4.2017Implementing NSX – real-life journey from idea to practice
Author: Mitja Robas
Data Center infrastructure should allow IT administrators and operations teams to meet their management and support nirvana by vaporizing the spells and curses related to the environment. SDDC is a platform that promises catching that unicorn by enabling true flexible and scalable infrastructure.
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14.12.2015How can my network benefit from SDN?
With the flood of solutions and products that are promoted under the name Software Defined Networks one will inevitably ask the question “What’s in it for me? How can my network benefit from SDN?” And the answer, as is mostly the case, is: “It depends.” SDN is different things to different people and different organizations.
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08.10.2015Lessons learned from Volkswagen scandal
Author: Mitja Robas
I'm pretty sure we've all read about the Volkswagen scandal and how »resourceful« they were at using a software to make their cars with diesel engine perform way better than they really do, on a emission test. So why should you care about AFA storage »test drive«?
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28.9.2015Separating the “wires” from “logic”
Author: Robert Turnšek
The idea of software-defined network (SDN) stems from the desire to increase practicality in managing IT resources, since IT specialists wanted to separate the management, control and data aspects of the network. How it works in real life? We compered three solutions.
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30.10.2013Overlay Virtual Networking
Author: Ivan Pepelnjak
Ivan explained the benefits and drawbacks of overlay virtual networks as compared to traditional VLAN-based solutions. The second half of the session focused on architectural and scalability aspects of individual solutions from major virtualization vendors and emerging startups.
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22.10.2012
OpenFlow and SDN: Hype, Useful Tools or Panacea?
Author: Ivan Pepelnjak
Ivan described the basics of OpenFlow, its advantages and pitfalls, and the potential real-life use cases including a brief overview of some existing deployments.
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30.9.2011Data Center Fabrics: beyond the hype and marketecture
Author: Ivan Pepelnjak
Every networking vendor is talking about Data Center fabric these days, usually offering a proprietary architecture that works well only with the devices from the same vendor.
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30.9.2011Cloud computing networking: under the hood
Author: Ivan Pepelnjak
This lecture describes the networking requirements of various cloud services and designs you can use to build a data center networks that support them.
