Close
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
Read Down
Sign in
Close
Welcome!Log into your account
Forgot your password?
Read Down
Password recovery
Recover your password
Close
Search
Menu
Search
  • Latest News
  • Cybersecurity
  • Big Data and Analytics
  • Cloud
  • Mobile
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Applications
  • IT Management
  • Small Business
  • Development
  • Database
  • Servers
  • Android
  • Apple
  • Innovation
  • Blogs
  • PC Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Search Engines
  • Virtualization
More
    Home Latest News
    • Networking

    Cumulus Networks Creates Marketplace for Networking OS

    By
    Jeff Burt
    -
    October 24, 2016
    Share
    Facebook
    Twitter
    Linkedin
      SDN

      Cumulus Networks is launching an online marketplace that features products created by third parties that are built on the vendor’s Linux-based networking operating system.

      The Cumulus Networks Solutions Marketplace is a central repository for a broad range of offerings and makes it easier for network and cloud engineers to standardize their system architectures by helping to build out a community-led lineup of products.

      “The Solutions Marketplace is a repository of community-submitted projects, user space applications, automation scripts, and extensions to Cumulus Linux,” Andrius Benokraitis, strategic alliance manager at Cumulus, wrote in a post on the company blog. “This enables collaboration and fosters innovation through a common platform to develop upon openly and freely using Cumulus VX. The Solutions Marketplace with Cumulus Linux expedites the path to production due to the availability of existing community expertise. Best practices are shared, which means you don’t have to start from zero when building out your data center.”

      Cumulus VX is a community supporting open-source software that enables cloud administrators and network engineers to test the vendor’s technology in a virtual environment.

      Cumulus’ Linux OS can run on industry-standard hardware, which gives organizations greater flexibility, agility and affordability in their network infrastructures. Disaggregating network software—including the OS—from the underlying hardware is a central part of the network virtualization push in a rapidly changing industry that is being remade by such technologies as software-defined networking (SDN) and network-functions virtualization (NFV). Through these technologies, customers can run a consistent lineup of software on industry-standard systems from multiple OEMs and original design manufacturers (ODM) rather than getting locked into a single vendor whose OS is tied to its more expensive systems.

      Cumulus officials have said the growing momentum behind the company’s products shows the demand for such open networking offerings. They said more than 500 organizations run Cumulus Linux. Benokraitis in his blog wrote that there are more than 1.5 million ports in production and more than 50 certified hardware platforms across eight hardware vendors, including Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Supermicro and Quanta.

      Company officials said that partners have been submitting, testing and updating third-party offerings for Cumulus Linux, and there are more than 40 solutions that can be searched for on the marketplace. There are some areas, like automation, that have been a key focus for Cumulus Linux-enabled deployments. However, up until now, automation offerings that rely on such third-party tools as Ansible and Puppet have been created on their own and only shared by word-of-mouth, which limits their reach. Having them in a central marketplace will make them more easily accessible, officials said.

      “The Solutions Marketplace with Cumulus Linux expedites the path to production due to the availability of existing community expertise,” Benokraitis wrote. “Best practices are shared, which means you don’t have to start from zero when building out your data center. A disaggregated hardware/software model enables flexible environments and leverages open standards. The result is a highly interoperable model—one that challenges legacy proprietary and single-vendor models.”

      Users will be able to search the marketplace in several areas, from deployment lifecycle and networking technology to automation type—Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt and others—and software integration, he said.

      Avatar
      Jeff Burt
      Jeffrey Burt has been with eWEEK since 2000, covering an array of areas that includes servers, networking, PCs, processors, converged infrastructure, unified communications and the Internet of things.

      MOST POPULAR ARTICLES

      Android

      Samsung Galaxy XCover Pro: Durability for Tough...

      Chris Preimesberger - December 5, 2020 0
      Have you ever dropped your phone, winced and felt the pain as it hit the sidewalk? Either the screen splintered like a windshield being...
      Read more
      Cloud

      Why Data Security Will Face Even Harsher...

      Chris Preimesberger - December 1, 2020 0
      Who would know more about details of the hacking process than an actual former career hacker? And who wants to understand all they can...
      Read more
      Cybersecurity

      How Veritas Is Shining a Light Into...

      eWEEK EDITORS - September 25, 2020 0
      Protecting data has always been one of the most important tasks in all of IT, yet as more companies become data companies at the...
      Read more
      Big Data and Analytics

      How NVIDIA A100 Station Brings Data Center...

      Zeus Kerravala - November 18, 2020 0
      There’s little debate that graphics processor unit manufacturer NVIDIA is the de facto standard when it comes to providing silicon to power machine learning...
      Read more
      Apple

      Why iPhone 12 Pro Makes Sense for...

      Wayne Rash - November 26, 2020 0
      If you’ve been watching the Apple commercials for the past three weeks, you already know what the company thinks will happen if you buy...
      Read more
      eWeek


      Contact Us | About | Sitemap

      Facebook
      Linkedin
      RSS
      Twitter
      Youtube

      Property of TechnologyAdvice.
      Terms of Service | Privacy Notice | Advertise | California - Do Not Sell My Information

      © 2021 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

      Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.

      ×