At the core of all modern internet technology is a complex system of routing information from one point to another. This routing system operates largely in the background of most technology organizations but has tremendous impact on the business objectives of a company. A commonly debated topic among the networking community is the transition from the ...

Cloud computing has fundamentally expanded the realm of possibilities organizations can accomplish with technology. While a lot of focus has been placed on the cloud technology and data architecture advancements, the underlying telecommunications infrastructure is also seeing a shift in strategies to support the latest trends in cloud computing. Cisco Systems, Inc., known for its hardware infrastructure deployments, is ...

Since the first servers started coming online decades ago, managing hardware performance through software control has been at the forefront of internet infrastructure technologies. Only more recently has the term “software-defined storage” been used to describe software managed storage resources in the cloud computing ecosystem. Although cloud computing presents a new set of benefits and challenges, the ...

As the cloud computing revolution continues to unfold, the open-source community strives to carve out its share of the market. The keys to a successful open-sourced technology are stable performance and a vibrant ecosystem of supporting services. With rumblings of the potential market for OpenStack starting to shrink, how will a budding ecosystem for the leading open-sourced ...