Networks may not be the most expensive thing in the datacenter – they typically comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of the cost of a distributed system, including cables, transceivers, switches, ...

In the not-too-distant past, network operating systems (NOS) pretty much meant one thing: a Novell NetWare server for managing files and printers on a local area network. For some government agencies, ...

Will there be a market for SDN network operating systems? The answer will be critical to the evolution of SDN standards and the development of applications that leverage SDN capabilities. The SDN ...

If the world doesn’t need another thing, one of those things that it doesn’t need is probably another switch operating system. Cisco Systems, Arista Networks, Juniper Networks, Big Switch Networks, ...

A distributed system is comprised of multiple computing devices interconnected with one another via a loosely-connected network. Almost all computing systems and applications today are distributed in ...

When building a web app in previous years, it was common to have a server in a centralised datacentre that would be able to run your application. As usage grew, you would address scalability ...