Startups Seeking to Shake Up Networking

Data Center Knowledge (Jun 24 2011) Networking

1. What a difference a year makes. In June 2010, we began hearing predictions that networking was ready for disruption from James Hamilton of Amazon. “We’re very close to a fundamental change in the networking world,” Hamilton said at Velocity 2010, envisioning a future in which open source software would transform networking. “We’ll get our Linux of the networking world.” That same week, Nick McKeown of Stanford outlined the OpenFlow networking standard at the Structure 2010 conference. Fast forward to March of 2011, when six of the world’s largest data center operators joined forces to throw their support behind OpenFlow. (Read Full Article)

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