An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
Competing to provide the world’s most scalable data center switching and routing solution sounds like a pretty gritty challenge in this modern sea of architectural options, but Cumulus Networks is laser-focused on it.
Rather than delivering a new appliance or or a software-driven virtual network install, the firm is driving development and distribution of an open source Cumulus Linux package that natively includes advanced L2/L3 networking features. This means the OS can natively conduct network ops with greater modularity and responsiveness directly atop easily scalable bare metal infrastructure from a variety of hardware and/or cloud providers.
Obviously this offering isn’t designed for companies already committed to leveraging investments in a conventional-style network architecture for the foreseeable future. But companies targeting massive scale and automation changes and seeking open source solutions, with all the DevOps, containerization and cloud-native improvements they can handle, often find Cumulus Linux kernels popping closest to the metal.
There may be organizational changes that lead to such a network-new rethink.
“Traditional enterprises have organizational silos under IT Ops for network and server teams,” said Cumulus CEO Josh Leslie. “A modern team will instead often have an overall head of Infrastructure with a lead architect, with all the network and server teams working together to choose from open source systems, then instrument the whole stack with web-scale automation and telemetry. They tend to find Cumulus when they go down that transformational road.”
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