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Anuta Networks Unveils its nCloudX Platform

lmacvittie · January 22, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Anuta Networks unveils a solution to more effectively manage cloud and SDN-enabled networks

anuta Anuta Networks, a Silicon Valley-based self-proclaimed "network services virtualization" startup, is entering the market with its inaugural offering, the Anuta nCloudX Platform.

The solution essentially provides network service abstraction and orchestration for cloud service providers and large enterprises engaged in the implementation of private clouds.

Anuta says of its initial offering:

The breakthrough Anuta Networks nCloudX platform simplifies and automates the complete lifecycle of network services in complex, heterogeneous networks across multi-vendor, multi-device, multi-protocol, and multi-hypervisor offerings for physical and virtual devices in both private cloud and public cloud deployments. The solution reduces network services delivery time from weeks to a few hours, building efficient software automation on top of a combination of both the existing hardware-controlled networks and the new generation of SDN technologies.

One of the concerns with regard to potential SDN adoption is, of course, the potential requirement to overhaul the entire network. Many SDN solutions today are highly disruptive, which may result in a more than tepid welcome in established data centers.

Solutions such as Anuta’s nCloudX Platform, however, aim to alleviate the pain-points associated with managing data centers comprised of multiple technologies and platforms by abstracting services from legacy and programmable network devices. The platform then provides integration points with Cloud Management Platforms and SDN controllers to enable implementation of more comprehensive cloud and data center orchestration flows.

Anuta’s nCloudX Platform follows the popular "class of provisioning" and "cataloging" schemes prevalent in Cloud Management Platform offerings and adds drag-and-drop topological design capabilities to assist in designing flexible, virtual networks from top to bottom. Its integration with OpenStack takes the form of a Quantum plug-in, essentially taking over the duties of multiple Quantum plug-ins for legacy and programmable devices. Given the pace at which support for many network devices in Quantum is occurring, alternative methods of integration may provide early adopters with more complete options for implementation.

Its ability to integrate with SDN controllers from Nicira (VMware) and Big Switch Networks enable organizations to pursue a transitory, hybrid strategy with respect to SDN, minimizing potential disruption and providing a clear migration path toward virtualized networks. Its cataloging and design services enable rapid on-boarding of new tenants and a simpler means of designing what are otherwise complex, virtualized networks.

While much of Anuta Networks’ focus lies on cloud, its ability to virtualize network services is likely to provide value to organizations seeking to automate its network provisioning and management systems, regardless of their adoption of cloud or SDN-related technologies.

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Anuta Networks was founded by Chandu Guntakala, President & CEO, Srini Beereddy, CTO, and Praveen Vengalam, Vice President of Engineering, Anuta Networks. It focuses on the delivery of network services virtualization in the context of cloud and SDN-related architectures.

How CA is Automating the Cloud

lmacvittie · December 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

CA Technologies’ AppLogic Suite enables Automated Service Delivery, #Cloud Style #devops

I had an opportunity to sit down with CA Technologies and talk cloud with a focus on cloud management last month and discovered a robust portfolio of automation and orchestration solutions.

CA has been a staple name in the enterprise for more than a decade so it’s no surprise they understand the need for as turnkey solutions as possible. Pre-integrated and pre-packaged with plenty of easy buttons is desirable, as long as there remains room for customization. The fine folks at CA are focused on hybrid service delivery these days, comprising physical and virtual devices across public and private environments unified by "one point of control." This includes a catalog of services (a registry, if you’re coming from a SOA perspective) as well as pre-integrated and pre-tested process flows that enable rapid deployment of automated processes.

AppLogic is its cloud management platform (CMP) designed as a turnkey solution for service providers. It relies on an environment comprised of commodity components and attempts to minimize the amount of code required to build, maintain and use a cloud environment.

Its framework is capable of executing scripts to perform mundane deployment and configuration tasks such as mounting a volume or configuring a VLAN. It’s model is similar to that of CloudStack and OpenStack but uses its own language, ADL (Application Definition Language). The advantage for CA here is in its visual editor tool for constructing flows and tasks, something lacking in other efforts.

It claims to provide an entire "cloud stack" including:

  • Server management
  • Embedded SAN
  • SDN
  • Resource quotas
  • Design studio
  • Metering
  • Security

Its claim to SDN is much like other, pre-existing solutions that leverage an automated and dynamic configuration paradigm. It creates connections automatically between virtual machines and the Internet, leverages its own DPI for security and consistent latency both ingress and egress from the virtual machine. Network virtualization is really CA’s SDN game here, as the fabric created by AppLogic takes advantage of its own packet encapsulation to enable route domain isolation, security, and bandwidth enforcement.

Its embedded SAN was interesting in that it’s a completely software-based construct that simulates a block level SAN comprised of DAS.

While CA is aiming at service providers with AppLogic, its easy to believe that a large enough enterprise would find value in a cloud management platform that is more fully fleshed out than competing offerings.

Briefing Notes: Midokura

Krishnan Subramanian · October 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This is a briefing note prepared by our analyst Lori Macvittie on Midokura, company offering network virtualization for public and private clouds.

Overview: 

MidoNet is a Software-Defined Networking solution attempting to address the limitations of competing controller-based models through a shared state, fully meshed virtual overlay network architecture.

MidoNet is designed to overlay existing L2/L3 networks and provides a highly dynamic and flexible virtual network defined solely through roles and policies. The resulting architecture expands seamlessly to inter-domain network architectures, enabling federated hybrid cloud implementations.

You can view the report at Slideshare for free but you have to fill out a form with your information (your privacy if completely protected by us) to download the note for free.

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