For Google, software defined networking represented a better way of moving traffic between its global data centers.
It is the first Icera modem to implement 4G LTE in NVIDIA's software defined radio baseband processor.
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Software defined storage could allow a further level of abstraction and cost effectiveness.
Software defined storage (SDS) is a recent technology term used to describe an enhanced level of storage management and placement.
Google is not alone in its embrace of software defined networking but it is the first company to have implemented it on such an enormous scale.
Much of the revenue opportunities available for Big Data vendors is in helping traditional enterprises evolve to the next generation software defined data management data center.
This is true even though technologies such as virtualization, deduplication, intelligent storage tiering and more recently software defined storage allow more efficient utilization of storage hardware.
Looking at it from the application view, software defined power is the answer since it abstracts the application from power dependencies by allowing it to move between data centers.
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While a software defined data center might allow you to move workloads across different IT components, how will you manage the power and cooling in the data center that is at risk?
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"By making ioScale available to growing webscale and emerging cloud companies, Fusion-io is at the forefront of the transition to the all-flash hyperscale datacenter, powered by open software defined solutions, " said David Flynn, Fusion-io CEO and Chairman.
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The protocol, which was initially conceived by a graduate student at Stanford University named Martin Casado, represents a new way to control network switches and routers that has come to be known as software defined networking, or SDN.
Fully mature Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software along with energy market integration that has a detailed model of power consumption, cooling, and the ability to manage servers, turning them on or off or putting them in a lower power state, completes the picture and enables the full benefit of a software defined data center to be realized.
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The court's ruling has put aside, for the short run, a more potent challenge of the FCC's ability to mandate so-called software-defined devices, which use open-source software to define how a signal can be sent or received.
That is causing network bottlenecks and creating opportunities for technology called software-defined networking, or SDN.
He cites recent acquisitions of software-defined network and network virtualization pure-plays by existing cloud players as proof points.
The Pentagon, at least, seems to think software-defined radios are a promising tool.
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HackRF is far from the only attempt to create an affordable software-defined radio.
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The more accessible software-defined radios become, he warned, the more that threat materializes.
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As a result, you can view software-defined power and DCIM level 5 as two sides of the same coin.
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As cloud-style architectures become more prevalent, we will see a parallel shift from legacy storage to modern, software-defined-storage architectures.
For the past couple of year, Cisco has been working hard on its SDN strategy, also known as software-defined networking.
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After all, it looks like the software-defined datacenter is the next wave in enterprise infrastructure that will be key for cloud computing.
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By contrast, early attempts to build adaptable, Sandbridge-style chips--which use so-called software-defined radio--have foundered, running more slowly and consuming too much power.
The approach aligns with the trend toward SDN (software-defined networking) and NFV (network function virtualization) among telecommunications operators, thanks to its elastic and virtualization-friendly cloud architecture.
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General Dynamics has an advantage in the competition because it led the one part of the original joint program that actually delivered on the promise of software-defined radios.
With 4.8 billion transistors on a single chip, Trident II is optimized for software-defined networks and cloud-scale data centers, supporting tens of thousands of servers and virtual machines.
Better to put cheap software-defined radios in the hands of penetration testers who can demonstrate the insecurity of those communications than to reserve the technology only for better-funded attackers who would exploit the same wireless communications in secret.
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As the networking world transitions towards flatter and more scalable software-defined architectures to better a commodate the growing need for data, Juniper is looking to embrace the trend in a way that stops its hardware business from being commoditized completely.
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But it will face tough competition from BAE Systems, the only company that managed to be a key player in all of the originally conceived software-defined radios that would have been used by Army helicopters, ground vehicles and dismounted troops.
Software-defined networks will provide some of this flexibility by separating the control function from data forwarding, but there are additional capabilities emerging, he says, such as intelligent switching of wavelengths, the ability to mix dedicated bandwidth with best-efforts networks, and application layer network traffic optimization, e.g.
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