Big Switch Amasses Help for Containers and vSAN
Big Cloud Fabric 4.0 is available as of today.
Big Switch CTO Rob Sherwood Is Moving to Facebook
'Clean Slate' veteran hopes to rediscover his lab roots.
Q&A: Dan Warmenhoven, Former NetApp CEO, Part 2
Return to Page 1 So, get out — but how? Become a fast-food franchise? That’s a challenge for everybody in that space. There are only going to be a few providers. I think in the server sector, you’re down to already three: Dell, Hewlett Packard, and Cisco. In the storage space, it’s basically Dell again,... Read more →
Q&A: Dan Warmenhoven, Former NetApp CEO Turned SDx Guy
An old-school infrastructure CEO discusses SDN, the cloud, and the future of former peers such as HPE & Cisco.
Big Switch Rolls Out BigSecure Architecture to House its Products
Big Monitoring Fabric now monitors clouds, VMs, and containers.
The 7 Largest Rounds of Funding of 2016 (So Far)
There are clear trends among security and monitoring companies.
Facebook Wedge 100 – The Future of the Data Center?
Facebook is back in the news again. This time, it’s because of the release of their new Wedge 100 switch into the Open Compute Project (OCP). Wedge was already making headlines when Facebook announced it two years ago. A fast, open sourced 40Gig Top-of-Rack (ToR) switch was huge. Now, Facebook is letting everyone in on the fun of a faster Wedge that has been deployed into production at Facebook data centers as well as being offered for sale through Edgecore Networks, which is itself a division of Accton. Accton has been leading the way in the whitebox switching market and Wedge 100 may be one of the ways it climbs to the top.
Holy Hardware!
Wedge 100 is pretty impressive from the spec sheet. They paid special attention to making sure the modules were expandable, especially for faster CPUs and special purpose devices down the road. That’s possible because Wedge is a highly specialized micro server already. Rather than rearchitecting the guts of the whole thing, Facebook kept the CPU and the monitoring stack and just put newer, faster modules on it to ramp to 32x100Gig connectivity.
As suspected in the above image, Facebook is using Broadcom Tomahawk as Continue reading
The State of SDN Adoption – Data Center Network Monitoring & Security
Join SDxCentral and Big Switch Networks for the webinar on October 6th at 10:00am PT to learn about the State of SDN Adoption.