A Network Approach that Meets the Requirements of Cloud Computing Whitepaper

The advent of Cloud Computing changes the approach to datacenters networks in terms of throughput, resilience, and management. Cloud computing is a compelling way for many businesses, small (private) and large (public) to take advantage of web based applications. One can deploy applications more rapidly across shared server and storage resource pools than is possible with conventional enterprise solutions. Deploying modern web applications across a cloud infrastructure enables a new level of agility that is very difficult to accomplish with traditional silo computing model. New Computing models for virtualization and cloud require an ultra-scalable network infrastructure with a very large number of 1/10 Gigabit and future 40/100G higher-speed Ethernet connections. Clouds necessitate a high network availability since a network failure could affect thousands of servers and new levels of open integration. Finally, clouds require automated ways to rapidly bring-up, provision, virtualize, and administer the network. In short, the ability to scale, control, automate, customize, and virtualize the cloud network is an important evolution to “data center in the box” approach.