Network automation could solve slow VM provisioning

Infoblox offers network automation for data center administration

Shamus McGillicuddy, News Director

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Change tickets, phone calls, emails. Is that any way to coordinate network changes in a dynamic, highly virtualized data center?

Virtualization managers should not be forced to phone a network engineer to request IP address assignments and VLAN changes every time they spin up a new virtual machine (VM). Network automation can replace many of these administrative tasks.

This network automation should not only remove human latency within the networking team, it should promote better cross-collaboration among different functional groups in thedata center so that server-virtualization teams can get the network settings they need for new VMs within minutes instead of days.
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Palo Alto IPO could spell big trouble for Cisco and Juniper
Application-aware firewall vendor Palo Alto Networks has filed for an IPO that could signal big competitive trouble for Cisco and Juniper Networks.

Though Palo Alto has not yet turned a profit (the company reported a loss last year of $12.5 million), it more than doubled revenue to $119.6 million in 2011 from $48.8 million in 2010.

Many believe that growth came from customers that couldn't find comparable features in Cisco and Juniper products and jumped ship.
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Become a data center guru with CCIE Data Center cert
In the world of the next-generation data center, the skills that once sustained an engineer's career just aren't enough anymore. In enterprises where virtualization and cloud computing are putting new demands on the network, an engineer must know more than routing and switching.

Cisco Systems acknowledged this trend recently when it announced its new CCIE Data Center certification program. It's a departure from some of Cisco's other advanced CCIE certifications, which focus on specific technologies like routing and switching, security or wireless. CCIE Data Center will ask network engineers to develop a relatively deep understanding across storage and server technologies as well.
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