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Dell adds Midokura to expand open networking initiative

DUBAI, December 18, 2014

Dell has expanded its open networking initiative to include Midokura, a global company focused on network virtualisation, to complement its networking and service infrastructure.

The deal includes a joint go-to-market programme, validated reference architecture and global reseller agreement, said a statement.

It will offer Midokura’s Enterprise MidoNet software on Dell infrastructure, delivering a network virtualisation overlay for OpenStack that will help enterprise customers and service providers create an agile cloud networking infrastructure based on open technologies.

As the industry increasingly moves to disaggregate hardware from software, customers require a variety of open technologies to complete this vision. Dell’s open networking switches and industry-standard x86 servers form the foundation of many modern data centres.

MidoNet is a software-based, highly-distributed network virtualisation system that allows service providers and enterprises to build, run and manage virtual networks with increased control and flexibility.

Leveraging industry standards and existing infrastructure, MidoNet provides network agility and scalability while helping reduce costs.

Meanwhile, with the partnership Dell signed with Cumulus Networks earlier this year, the three firms will provide customers data centre networking solutions that will enable affordable capacity and operational efficiency.

With Dell Open Networking switches, the Cumulus Linux operating system and MidoNet, Dell offers comprehensive network virtualisation solutions for the software-defined data centre.   

The Dell, Cumulus Networks and Midokura solution will enable a growing number of service providers and enterprise customers to provision scalable virtual networks to connect to physical workloads in a matter of minutes.

Midokura MidoNet leverages Dell switches to facilitate network traffic flows from virtual machines to non-virtualized, physical workloads such as high-performance databases, email servers and legacy systems at line rate.

Tom Burns, vice president and general manager, Dell Networking, said: “What this shows is that we’re actively connecting the dots with like-minded companies to upend the traditional, black-box model of networking.

“That old model is too rigid, too locked and too slow to innovate. Dell’s Open Networking initiative is about being open, flexible and software-defined to help maximise our customers’ application environments.”

Dan Mihai Dumitru, chief executive officer and co-founder, Midokura, said: “Midokura, like Dell, is committed to expanding the Open Networking initiative to meet the needs of today’s modern enterprises and help deliver an open foundation for compute, storage and networking infrastructure.

“We’ve already successfully teamed up with Dell to bridge virtual and physical networks and we look forward to deepening our collaboration to create an open, converged infrastructure for enterprises to support clouds that are easy to scale and operate.” - TradeArabia News Service




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