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Fortinet integration with Nuage Networks SDN

Fortinet integration with Nuage Networks SDN

Nuage Networks VSP, with the emphasis on P for Platform provides many integration points for 3rd party network and security providers (a.o.) this way the customer can leverage the SDN platform and build end-to-end automated services in support of his/her application needs.

Docker networking overview

Docker networking overview

In general the networking piece of Docker, and arguably Docker itself, is still quite young so things move fast and will likely change over time. A lot of progress has been made via the SocketPlane acquisition last year and it’s subsequent pluggable model, but more about that later.

SDN with Underlay – Overlay visibility via VSAP

SDN with Underlay – Overlay visibility via VSAP

VSAP builds upon intellectual property from our parent company, Alcatel-Lucent (soon to be Nokia), using the 5620 Service Aware Manager as a base to combine knowledge of both the physical and virtual networks.

Policy Based Abstractions through SDN

Policy Based Abstractions through SDN

Application Designer is built for use by people with an understanding of application constructs that don’t necessarily need to understand, or care about, the underlying networking constructs, these are automatically abstracted by the Nuage platform.

Unifying Docker Container and VM networking

Unifying Docker Container and VM networking

Most environments are not homogeneous, typically you have multiple types of workloads and I believe this will only increase in the near future with the rise of containers, PaaS, VM’s, bare metal,…

Networking Field Day 10 – Nuage Networks

Networking Field Day 10 – Nuage Networks

Networking Field Day 10 was held from August 19 till 21 2015, in Silicon Valley, NFD is part of the Tech Field Day series of events organized by Stephen Foskett and team.

VMware NSX and Palo Alto NGFW

VMware NSX and Palo Alto NGFW

VMware NSX is a platform for network and security virtualization, and as such it has the capability to integrate onto it’s platform certain functionalities that are not delivered by VMware itself.

NSX Logical Load Balancer

NSX Logical Load Balancer

VMware NSX is a network virtualisation and security platform that enables inclusion of 3rd party integration for specific functionality, like advanced firewalling, load-balancing, anti-virus, etc.

Belgian VMUG session on NSX

Belgian VMUG session on NSX

The VMUG crew did an excellent job in getting an amazing line-up of speakers including (in no particular order) Chris Wahl, Cormac Hogan, Mike Laverick, Duncan Epping, Eric Sloof, and Luc Dekens.

NSX Service Chaining

NSX Service Chaining

When NSX was introduced to the public at large during VMworld 2013, there was a logo slide including all the initial NSX partners that had a working demo together with NSX.

On SDN, NFV, and OpenFlow

On SDN, NFV, and OpenFlow

Network-, and network function virtualisation are the talk of the town at the moment, the sheer amount of vendor solutions is staggering, and the projected market opportunity is enough to make anyone’s head spin.

VMware NSX – because hairpins are for old ladies

VMware NSX – because hairpins are for old ladies

Server virtualization has increased the amount of server to server network traffic, commonly described as east-west traffic.