Comments on: Forget networking, the data center of the future is software defined too http://research.gigaom.com/2012/05/forget-networking-the-data-center-of-the-future-is-software-defined-too/ Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:27:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: sgeorgis http://research.gigaom.com/2012/05/forget-networking-the-data-center-of-the-future-is-software-defined-too/#comment-1580 Fri, 18 May 2012 17:50:29 +0000 http://pro.gigaom.com/?p=107640#comment-1580 ” …but there are still areas such as IO and power consumption where virtualization on top of commodity gear isn’t the answer.”

Newly introduced Software-Defined Network Services that can scale network processing and I/O purely in x86 software at performance levels comparable to dedicated HW are now available. This means that above the packet forwarding plane (which is best done in silicon), the rest of the network/application/orchestration stack can be software on commodity HW.

Steve Georgis
CEO, LineRate Systems

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