cloud

  • Google opens up on its SDN

    For first time, hyperwebscale company details its data center network, offers it to developers At this week’s Open Network Summit, Google spoke for the first time publicly about its custom data center network. For nearly a decade, we’ve been hearing, reading and writing about how Google was building its own […]

  • Cloud upstarts: Too cheap to trust?

    New Amazon competitors offer some compelling deals in the cloud, but at what price? Hosting provider Atlantic.net launched a $0.99 per month cloud server this fall, which is significantly less expensive than the $0.013 per hour starting price for market-leader Amazon Web Services’ on-demand Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual machines. […]

  • Cloud failures will happen. Are you ready

    This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Despite all the hype about the cloud, one thing is for sure: It’s not foolproof. Even if you only use the most reputable cloud services […]

  • Cisco fills out SDN family with 40G switch, controller, cloud gear for data center

    Nexus 6000 designed for high-density 40G; InterCloud, for VM migration to hybrid clouds; ONE Controller for programming Cisco switches, routers Cisco this week will fill out its programmable networking family with a new line of data center switches, cloud connectivity extensions and a software-based SDN controller. The new products fill […]