Our Open Networking-themed conference went off without a hitch last week in the Frankfurt Marriott Hotel. Attendees visited from all around Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Russia and Belgium, and speakers flew in from Taiwan, California, Cambridge and London to share the latest trends from the world of software-defined data centers (SDDC), Open Compute and open networking.

John Laban from the Open Compute Project Foundation will moderate a panel at Datacenter Transformation on September 26th in Frankfurt on the topic of “The changes we’ll see in the Software-Defined Data Center landscape by the end of this decade”. Read article

It’s that time of year again! We’re busy getting ready for Datacenter Transformation 2017 in the Frankfurt Marriott Hotel on Tuesday, September 2017.

We’ve designed the conference around educating, empowering, and inspiring IT professionals, engineers and business leaders who are looking for open networking solutions to drive their business forward.

EPS Global today announced a distribution agreement with Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., a leading provider of business, information technology and communications solutions. 
 
Under the agreement, EPS Global will distribute the Fujitsu 1FINITY™ platform, featuring the Transport family of high-performance DCI solutions. The open, disaggregated 1RU blades of the Fujitsu DCI solution are economical, scalable and programmable, enabling network operators to control space and power, while planning for future bandwidth growth.   Read article

In the first part of this blog we looked at the building blocks and the ecosystem behind the open networking or disaggregated model. Now let’s examine the tradeoffs between choosing a traditional vendor vs. a white box network and the potential applications using this model.

White-box networking is gaining interest not just from hyper cloud networks but also from a host of other organizations whose business logic demand a dynamic, programmable and scalable network. Let’s examine some considerations behind adopting a white-box based architecture. Read article