Brocade Powers Up Its Cloud Network Efforts with Piston OpenStack

Grazed from Enterprise Networking Planet.  Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

There is a lot of interest an activity around the open source OpenStack cloud project from all types of IT vendors, including networking vendors. One of those vendors is Brocade, who is now partnering with Piston Cloud Computing to build a joint solution set.

The partnership will see the Brocade VCS Fabric melded to a Piston Cloud designed OpenStack platform. Piston Cloud is a commercial vendor building its own OpenStack distribution. With OpenStack and its included Quantum network virtualization components the line will be begin to blur between Software Defined Networking (SDN) and the cloud…

"One of the challenges for people deploying OpenStack is crossing the line between their traditional networking infrastructure and their new virtualized or SDN infrastructure," Joshua McKenty, CEO of Piston Cloud told EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet. "Working in a tighter relationship with Brocade allows us to automate a lot of that challenge."

McKenty added that it’s orchestration of the physical and virtual networking where the two companies can work together. OpenStack already has its own networking technology known as Quantum, though McKenty stressed that the Piston Brocade partnership is more involved…

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