Oracle, OpenDaylight mark SDN milestones
Software-defined networking (SDN) is continuing to gain momentum as traditional vendors realign their product strategies for the industry wide-shift from legacy solutions to new architectures that couple open-source software with commodity hardware to achieve unprecedented efficiency at large scale. Routing giant Cisco entered the fray last month with the launch of a management module hailed as the first milestone towards realizing its Application Centric Infrastructure vision, and now Oracle is following suit by partnering with Pluribus Networks.
The four-year-old startup offers a bare-metal network hypervisor that provides centralized orchestration and monitoring capabilities which eliminate the need for much of the duplicate infrastructure found in traditional environments, reducing hardware costs while simplifying life for admins. The platform supports VMware vCenter and OpenStack, and has recently been certified for use with the latest version of Oracle’s Unix distribution.
Under a technology access agreement announced this morning, the companies will collaborate to expand integration between Solaris 11 and the open source cloud project. The pair plans to make it possible for customers to manage compute nodes via the OpenStack Nova plug-in and provision Networks switches using the Neutron service. Additionally, the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Cinder Driver will be updated to support the database giant’s Solaris-powered ZS3 storage appliances.
Solaris vice president Markus Flierl said that “OpenStack is providing us with the ideal platform to expand our relationships with companies like Pluribus Networks and I’m very excited to see Oracle Solaris 11 now running on Pluribus Networks’ Freedom Server-Switches. This means customers can now take full advantage of the unique performance, scalability, efficiency and security features of Oracle Solaris in their network infrastructure.”
While Oracle is working to deliver SDN capabilities through OpenStack , other traditional software makers such as Microsoft and SAP are are putting their weight behind OpenDaylight, a Linux Foundation initiative that aims to create a common platform for software-defined networks. The first release of the solution, dubbed “Hydrogen,” was originally revealed in September and released for general availability this week.
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