Cloud Computing: Hewlett-Packard, VMware Team Up to Deploy SDN Infrastructure
August 27, 2014
Grazed from Zacks. Author: Editorial Staff.
Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ – Analyst Report) and VMware, Inc. (VMW – Snapshot Report) recently joined forces to deploy software-defined networking (SDN) aided infrastructure to deliver enhanced performance for networking customers. Through this collaboration, Hewlett-Packard will combine its Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller with the VMware NSX network virtualization platform that provides a private cloud-based service.
This would make the cloud-computing environment more secure, simple, flexible and efficient. The announcement also stated that VMware’s enterprise-class virtualization technologies will be supported by HP’s Helion OpenStack services. The partnership will enable Hewlett-Packard to offer an efficient and improved hybrid IT environment to drive performance…
As VMware remains one of the leading companies in the virtualization and cloud computing space, we believe Hewlett-Packard will gain significantly from this collaboration…
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