RE: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch

[Brandon Kim <brandon.kim () brandontek com>]

Has our industry ever really fundamentally defined what is "cloud computing"?????

Even though "MPLS" is sort of a buzzword too, we can define it, how it works, it's protocol and such...

But cloud computing?



> Subject: RE: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:26:29 -0600
> From: MatlockK () exempla org
> To: nick () foobar org; brandon.kim () brandontek com
> CC: nanog () nanog org
>
> Because 'cloud computing' is the latest buzzword, and their marketing
> department thought that by attaching that buzzword to it, that would
> increase sales? :)
>
> Nevermind that clouds contain nothing but vapor.....
>
> Ken Matlock
> Network Analyst
> Exempla Healthcare
> (303) 467-4671
> matlockk () exempla org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick () foobar org] 
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 8:14 AM
> To: Brandon Kim
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch
>
> On 18/10/2010 14:27, Brandon Kim wrote:
> > Good question Nick, what is a cloud switch? Is this like VSS in cisco
> > where you have  a virtual chassis?
>
> The vss is virtual management software for a virtual switch.  This box 
> looks like a piece of hardware that you can plug things into, so I'm
> just 
> wondering what makes this a cloud switch and some other piece of kit not
> a 
> cloud switch.
>
> Nick