Networking in the Cloud Age

Half Day Afternoon
(1:30 pm-5:00 pm)

Thurgood Marshall South Ballroom

Cloud System Administration
M8
David Nalley, Apache CloudStack
Chiradeep Vittal, Citrix Systems
Description: 

Networking has been relatively static for decades. We've seen increases in speed, but many of the traditional topologies are inherently limited. Innovative networks are quite different. If you look at public services, such as AWS, or large private cloud deployments, you see that their networking topology looks contrary to everything that's been standard for years. In this half-day class we'll reexamine what limitations there are and what innovative options exist to remove those limitations.

Who should attend: 

Advanced system or network admins with a deep understanding of L2/L3 networking who want to learn about new networking technologies that are enabling scaling networks.

Take back to work: 

Knowledge of emerging networking standards and where they are best used.

Topics include: 
  • How massive public and private clouds build their networks to ensure scalability
  • How software defined networks work
  • Technologies worth looking at: VXLAN, NVGRE, GRE