Dell Expands Open Networking Initiative

Dell will expand its open Networking initiative to include Midokura, a global company focused onnetwork virtualization, to complement Dell’s networking and server infrastructure. The announcement offers Midokura’s Enterprise MidoNetsoftware on Dell infrastructure, delivering a network virtualization overlay for OpenStack that helps 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 and Cumulus Networks partnership will provide customers data center networking solutions that enable affordable capacity and operational efficiency. Now, with Dell Open Networking switches, the Cumulus Linux operating system and MidoNet, Dell offers comprehensive network virtualization solutions for the software-defined data center.

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