Big Switch aims to control the cloud with SDN product

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Jim Duffy.

Big Switch Networks this week is unveiling an SDN controller designed to bring Google-like hyperscale networking to enterprises. The software, called Cloud Fabric, runs on bare metal switches and allows users to build cloud “pods” where racks of servers, switches and applications can be grouped logically to serve a specific function, such as an OpenStack private cloud (http://www.networkworld.com/article/2172063/cloud-computing/gartner-analyst-slams-openstack–again.html), Hadoop big data cluster, or a virtual desktop infrastructure.

This is in contrast to operating, provisioning and monitoring each individual business application, such as SAP or Oracle or Microsoft Office, as its own silo. Cloud Fabric works with Big Switch’s SwitchLight operating system on spine switches, and SwitchLight OS on leafs. Optional components are an OpenStack plugin and SwitchLight virtual switches on leafs…

SwitchLight speaks OpenFlow 1.3 to the Cloud Fabric controller. The controller also supports high availability and zero touch provisioning features, Big Switch says. It supports Microsoft HyperV, KVM, VMware and Open vSwitch-enabled hypervisors…

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