iSCSI Session, iSCSI Login and Connection Between Its Initiator and Target

This blog discusses iSCSI session, iSCSI login and the components required for a connection between iSCSI initiator and iSCSI target in detail. The previous blog from this series introduced the basics of iSCSI protocol. The group of TCP connections that link an initiator with a target form an iSCSI session. The purpose of the iSCSI login is to enable

Computex 2017: Where Technology Innovations Converge

Computex 2017 will be held from May 30th to June 3rd in Taipie, Taiwan. Computex is one of the biggest B2B IoT events and it is gradually evolving into a global startup platform. Over the years, Computex has established itself as a building block for Global Technology Ecosystems. The main focus of the event is Artificial Intelligence, which includes Robotics, Gaming,

OpenStack Summit, May 2017, Boston – An Experience

I got the opportunity to attend the OpenStack summit in Boston. The summit was full of events mostly focused on OpenStack cloud, but many other things including NFV, Kubernetes, Containers, DevOps and approaches to pursuing multi-cloud approach. Many companies showcasing their products, platforms, software solutions were the highlights of the

Dell EMC World 2017

The most awaited event of the year is just around the corner; Dell EMC world 2017 is making its grand entry in style on 8th May 2017 at Las Vegas. For the first time, the entire Dell technology family will be under one umbrella and will be sharing its expertise with thousands of attendees. Dell EMC world is full of opportunities for attendees as well as for leaders;

RabbitMQ – Robust Way of Messaging for Application

RabbitMQ is open source message broker software. The principal idea is pretty simple: it accepts and forwards messages. RabbitMQ is the most popular open-source implementation of the AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) messaging protocol, written in “Erlang” that you can access from any language. It is software where queues

Open Networking Summit 2017

Open Networking Summit will be held on 3-6 April, 2017 in Santa Clara, California. It is one of the largest events of the networking industry and it puts all the leaders and enterprises under one umbrella and gives them a chance to share an educative and learning opportunity. ONS provides platforms for networking ecosystem, including incumbent vendors, operators, to discuss

Kubernetes Networking Internals

Kubernetes works on the principle of assigning IP addresses to pods, called as “IP-per-pod” model. The IPAM (IP address management) task is left to third party solutions. Some of these solutions include Docker networking, Flannel, IPvlan, contive, OpenVswitch, GCE and others. The Kubernetes architecture consists of master node, replication controller..

Future of Networking : Software Defined Networking (SDN)

There have been a lot of innovations in the virtualization domain which has benefited compute and storage. However those benefits are constrained due to limitations in the traditional network model. It is becoming increasingly difficult task to manage infrastructure which needs rapid network provisioning and also can be a time consuming.

Docker Container – A Silver Bullet for IT Industry

You might have heard word ‘Docker’ much frequently. All the noise is happening IT industries because most of the companies are adopting Docker technology at a noteworthy rate. So what actually Docker is? In a simple sentence, “Docker is an open source, container technology“. Using this technology you can easily create, deploy and run your Linux application

Getting Started with Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

First question that comes to mind is whether SDN and NFV are same or different or related technologies? SDN and NFV are independent technologies. SDN creates a separate management plane which sits a floor above the traditional control plane so as to get wider view of the network and orchestrate using network protocols like OpenFlow. So, with the SDN approach