Arno, Open Source software to enable deployment of NFV

Arno, Open Source software to enable deployment of NFV

The OPNFV Project, an Open Source platform to accelerate the introduction of new Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) products and services, announced the availability of the community’s first software release: Arno.

It is a solution aimed at anyone who is exploring NFV deployments, developing Virtual Network Functions (VNF) applications, or interested in NFV performance and use case-based testing. This developer-focused release provides an initial build of the NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) and Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) components of ETSI NFV architecture.

oVirt, a full-fledged hypervisor competitor

oVirt, a full-fledged hypervisor competitor

Today we sum up an article published in ZDNet that talks about Red Hat‘s oVirt potential and possibilities, standing out the University of Seville case study thanks to its integration with UDS Enterprise.

As the article explaines, oVirt is a free and Open Source project with huge capabilities and which is now a serious competitor to VMware’s ESXi and competing products, such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Citrix’s XenServer or Proxmox.

OSCON 2015: Free Software and Open Source Conference

OSCON 2015: Free Software and Open Source Conference

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual conference on free software and Open Source. For more than 17 years, software engineers, IT teams and developers attended this event to learn about the use of open source in real world situations.

This seminar is now an outstanding learning forum about Open Source best practices, strategies, tools, products, services and technologies and all implementation and configuration possibilities.

BriForum Denver 2015

BriForum Denver 2015

BriForum will be held in Denver next 20, 21 and 22 July after taking place in London last May.

Virtualization expert Brian Madden‘s team, together with experts from companies such as VMware, Citrix, Microsoft or Atlantis Computing, will share their views on VDI scenario and will present different desktop and app virtualization, enterprise mobility management, security, storage solutions

How to tune EXSi for NFV workloads

How to tune EXSi for NFV workloads

The vSphere VMware ESXi hypervisor has been adjusted to provide high I/O throughput in an efficient way, using less CPU cycles and maintaining power, since it is required by so many workloads.

Telco and NFV application workloads are different from typical Tier I enterprise application workloads. In fact, they tend to be sensitive to latency, instability and often have a high packages rate and high bandwidth.

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