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Today SDN & NFV are the hot technologies in the market. Both solve some kind of NW problems & bring more efficiencies in the NW. However, they are not married & hence reaping their benefits together needs some kind of interoperability mechanism. And this brings us back to the vendor specific implementation which is what SDN was supposed to end. For e.g. Cloud deployments would want to make use of both the technologies to make their operations cost effective. At Calsoft, we have built an IP Accelerator to enhance SDN programmability. This IP extends the OFP protocol & enables any switch to be converted into a function-specific NW device like a Parental Control GW or a WAN optimization device or a NW monitoring device, etc. What more, admin can convert one device functionality to other like converting Firewall to WAN- optimization device at a click of a button. Admin can, thus build an SDN-backed NFV device to configure his NW extremely easily ...

The next-generation data center model picked up phenomenally last year. With new advances in the area of network and storage virtualization, businesses of all sizes are leveraging the scalable infrastructure which can be scaled up or down based on the business needs.  Storage undoubtedly plays a central role in the next-generation data center. In the last post, I shared about some of my predictions in the areas of Storage, Cloud and Openstack. In continuation with that, here are few things which expect to see in the next few months – specifically in the Storage Industry, where we do a lot of our work - 1. IDC predicts big data growth at a 27% CAGR to $32.4 B through 2017. Big Data is a lot about Business Data and Social Sentiments. Very soon, with the proliferation of IoT (Internet of Things), Big Data will be a lot of fragmented and unstructured data from multiple devices. The existing set of datasets might turn out to be insufficient to generate insights and th...