open source
OpenDaylight: Understanding the Value Propositions
The announcement today of OpenDaylight is big news. Industry leading companies are partnering via Open Source to serve an emerging set of market needs: Operators: want affordable real-time orchestration and operation of integrated virtual compute, application, and network. Application Developers…
OpenDaylight: Building an Open Source Community around SDN
It’s great to see Cisco and many companies across the industry make a major change in the use of Open Source via the newly form project hosted by the Linux Foundation called OpenDaylight. This consortium is an industry-wide, open and transparent effort to catalyze innovation and accelerate an…
OpenDaylight: The Start of Something Big for SDN
So, after weeks of biting my tongue through what seemed like a constant drip of leaks and rumors, we can finally take the covers off OpenDaylight. So, lets cover some of the basics: What? OpenDaylight is an open source project formed under the Linux Foundation with the mutual goal of furthering the…
#EngineersUnplugged S2|Ep3: #OpenStack Edition
In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, Colin McNamara (Nexus IS, @colinmcnamara) and Joe Onisick (Insieme, @jonisick) take opposing viewpoints for the OpenStack, cage match. Let’s watch: Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know be…
LISP goes upstream into Open vSwitch
After a few months of work, I’m happy to announce Cisco has contributed the LISP protocol upstream into the Open vSwitch project. LISP is an open protocol developed by the IETF LISP Working Group. By getting LISP upstream into Open vSwitch, Cisco is continuing it’s tradition of enabling…
Upcoming oVirt Workshop
The oVirt Project continues it’s momentum in the coming year with a new workshop being hosted in Sunnyvale, CA, at the NetApp campus January 22-24. The workshop is a great chance to learn more about the oVirt project. There will be presentations on both using and operating oVirt, as well as de…
Cisco ONE Webcast Series : An Introduction to OpenStack
Over the past year, Cisco has been increasingly vocal and active around open source solutions . One of my favorite blogger, Omar Sultan , spent a lot of time writing on the subject , starting with OpenStack (ie blog :OpenStack cisco ONE and you) – You may wa…