Open Networking: Improving Economics and Unlocking Innovation in the Data Center
Open networking allows data center switches to be managed in the same manner as servers. Network administrators who adopt open networking leverage familiar switching and routing features provided by the Linux OS, while server administrators use their existing Linux tools as they deploy open networking to support VMware vSphere, OpenStack, big data, and other application environments. DevOps teams benefit from the ability to innovate at a faster pace.