Saving costs in the data center. Using a vSwitch to increase ROI. How offloading the vSwitch to a SmartNIC frees up cores to improve efficiency. Data-center operators and service providers are ...

How important is software-defined networking? To the Linux Foundation, it’s as important as protecting core networking protocols, devising open container standards, supporting development of the R ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. The virtual switch, soft-switch, or 'vSwitch' is quickly becoming the heart of every datacenter network.

Open vSwitch (OVS) today moved from an open source project hosted at VMware to a Linux Foundation project. “There’s been this perception that it was VMware run,” says Justin Pettit, senior staff at ...

Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) moves switching out of the server back to the physical network and makes all virtual machine traffic visible to the external network switch, freeing up server ...