Linux Warehouse, the premier distributor of enterprise open source software for southern Africa and the distributor in sub-Saharan Africa for Vyatta, today announced the latter's vPlane technology, a highly scalable forwarding plane for next-generation enterprise and cloud network designs.
Vyatta already provides a secure segmented environment intra- and inter-hypervisor, at extraordinary speeds, while being hypervisor-neutral. Now, Vyatta vPlane's fast-path architecture is poised to radically improve the cost and capabilities of networks for virtualised data centres.
"With the introduction of vPlane technology, Vyatta is delivering a next-generation distributed software networking environment that is capable of an order of magnitude better performance than our previous-generation software on the same off-the-shelf hardware," commented Robert Bays, CTO of Vyatta. "In leveraging the vPlane technology in our product roadmap, Vyatta will deliver exciting new solutions that enable virtualised data centres to handle rapidly-growing, complex traffic problems."
The migration of mission-critical enterprise applications to virtualised environments is producing a perfect storm of networking challenges. The resulting application density and multi-tenancy environments are creating traffic patterns that traditional Layer 3 infrastructure is ill-equipped to address due to inflexibility, cost and throughput limitations.
Leveraging the new fast-path architecture on an Intel Westmere-class system, Vyatta vPlane is capable of delivering more than eight million packets per second per core [1], more than a 10x improvement over Vyatta without vPlane. Additionally, since vPlane scales linearly with the addition of cores, an entire Westmere system can deliver 35 million packets per second in only a single rack-unit of data centre space.
The benefits of vPlane technology are many, including:
* Packet throughput matching the new era of 10Gbps virtualised servers
* Physical decoupling of software forwarding plane from control plane
* Full interoperability with existing network infrastructure
* Ability to accommodate new and emerging standards such as OpenFlow
"Vyatta continues to reaffirm its position at the leading edge of the virtualisation explosion that is shaping the evolution of networking," added Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta. "Vyatta's vPlane technology represents a giant leap forward in the continued progression of virtual networks towards software-defined networking."
The first Vyatta products to take advantage of vPlane technology are expected to be available later this year.
For further information, please contact Dawie Labuschagne; tel. (011) 795 7950; e-mail dawie@linuxwarehouse.co.za, or Jan-Jan van der Vyver; tel. (011) 795 7950; e-mail jan-jan@linuxwarehouse.co.za.
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Vyatta
Vyatta is disrupting the networking industry by delivering a software-based network operating system that leverages cost-effective x86 servers as well as common virtualisation and cloud computing platforms. Vyatta software provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security suite capable of uniquely addressing the next-generation infrastructure requirements of flexibility, on-demand delivery and platform independence. Thousands of physical and virtual infrastructures around the world, from small enterprise to Fortune 500 customers, are connected and protected by Vyatta.
Linux Warehouse
Linux Warehouse was established in 2005 as a spin-off from Obsidian Systems and is the premier distributor of enterprise open source software for southern Africa. As such, it is an authorised distributor in southern Africa for Red Hat including the Jboss product; the sub-Saharan distributor for EnterpriseDB, iFax Solutions, Vyatta and Zmanda; as well as a distributor for Ingres.
Linux Warehouse is a 'pure' distributor and operates in conjunction with and through its numerous resellers. In South Africa, the majority of corporate organisations utilise some Linux enterprise software within their operations, a situation that is also mirrored on a global basis.
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