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How OpenFlow is changing networking and XenServer
It's Tuesday, May 10, late afternoon. My phone rings and I see "Tim Mackey" on the display. Knowing that Tim is in Las Vegas setting up for Interop, I answer the phone expecting some verification questions about our XenServer Distributed Virtual Switching (DVS) messaging and plans so he will be fully prepared for the days to come.We actually already had a conversation 2 weeks ago ...
The Rise of the Software Defined Network
Today key players in the industry took a major step toward embracing an open cloud architecture. The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has been established with the backing of many of the Great and Good in cloud computing: Broadcom, Brocade, Ciena, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Facebook, Force10, Google, HP, IBM, Juniper Networks, Marvell, Microsoft, NEC, Netgear, NTT, Riverbed Technology, Verizon, VMware, and Yahoo! ...
Google Search Finds Citrix Receiver for Chrome Notebooks
Citrix has just announced Citrix Receiver for Chrome Notebooks. The new Google OS and reference design for notebooks is designed to run apps entirely from the web. That's relatively easy for web and SaaS apps, but for the thousands of corporate Windows apps Google needed another answer in order to make the new platform useful as a business tool or even a consumer ...
Sourcefire 3D and Citrix NetScaler
TEAM UP AS A POWERFUL COMBINATIONSourcefire IPS™ Works in Combination with Citrix NetScaler® Web Application Delivery Appliance for a Layered Approach to Security. Information security risks dramatically increase with the use of web servers to conduct business. An organization's most important data—customer confidential information, partner information, or financial information—is often housed on or accessed by web servers. Increasingly savvy hackers are launching unique ...
CPU masking support in XenServer 5.6
Towards the end of the XenServer 5.6 ("Midnight Ride") release we added support for CPU masking features in modern Intel and AMD CPUs. This work was prioritized to help address the pain customers have reported in expanding their XenServer resource pools over time. Unfortunately, between finishing Midnight Ride, the long-pole work around our integration of Open vSwitch and Distributed Virtual Switching, and the push to ...
It’s (Open) Cloud-y in the Southern Hemisphere Too
Through this year, we announced Citrix OpenCloud Solutions, then the OpenCloud Platform, and most recently, OpenCloud Access and OpenCloud Bridge. Our approach to building cloud infrastructure and enabling service providers to offer enterprises differentiated solutions that incorporate the providers' expertise and best practices have struck a chord for many providers.We've mainly discussed the experiences and solutions offered by US-based companies like RackSpace, Terremark, Carpathia, and ...
Common Questions (and answers) from the XenServer Beta Webinar
Below is a synopsis of many of the questions posed by audience members during the XenServer Beta Webinar on October 7th. The webinar has been archived and can be viewed here.If you have additional questions, please pose them through the comments section below or via the XenServer Cowley Beta forum. Don't forget to download and install this Beta release, more information about the program as ...
XenServer Project “Cowley” Beta Now Available
Though we released XenServer 5.6 just four months ago, we're already getting close to general availability of the follow-up release: codenamed project "Cowley." The beta release is now available on mycitrix.com for your download and use. Here's some of what is new:Distributed Virtual Switching. This new capability provides distributed fine-grained networking configuration and control policies, which increases visibility into ...
The Open vSwitch and Cloud – Visibility, SLAs and Compliance
Peter Phaal (yet another S. African contributor to virtualization) at InMon sent me a DM followup to my recent post on the strategic importance of the Open vSwitch project, and its inclusion in the forthcoming XenServer "Cowley" release. He makes a great point about the project's value in providing granular metrics on performance, from the host VIF, through the vSwitch, the physical NIC, ...
Open Source Switching
Multilayer Virtual SwitchSimon Crosby already talked about it, and it is already here. Open Source Routing's powerful counterpart, Open Source Switching is available now. Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. The goal is to build a production quality switch for VM environments that supports standard management interfaces (e.g. NetFlow, RSPAN, ERSPAN, CLI), and ...