PLUMgrid platform, an overlay based VNI solution

BANGALORE, INDIA: Enterprise data centers are transitioning to IT-as-a-Service models as a way to drive cost savings and increased flexibility.

The key to this transition is the ability to automate the delivery of applications and the associated infrastructure. As virtualization of compute and storage were widely deployed over the past decade, enterprise data centers enjoyed a first wave of flexibility but fell short of true self-service.

A new, emerging category of network infrastructure solutions, Virtual Network Infrastructure (VNI), addresses the needs of enterprises and services providers building cloud data centers.

By moving to a VNI, costs are dramatically reduced by simplifying network administration and provisioning, creating transparency to corporate end users and enabling flexibility for quickly changing networks as needed.

The PLUMgrid Platform was built to automate the delivery of network infrastructure as part of an application stack. The advantages of the PLUMgrid platform, which is an overlay based VNI solution, provides the cloud-builders the benefits of data center automation, which is streamlining routing tasks to deliver ITaaS; reduced operational costs, which eliminates manual physical network configurations and automate workflows; multi-hypervisor compatibility, where open platform operates with any hypervisor or cloud management platform; application velocity, which creates, deploys and tests applications fast; and increased security, where cloud environments are fully isolated and secure.

PLUMgrid has recently partnered with Macnica Networks, a Japanese company that works with a large number of overseas high tech companies to provide a full line of leading-edge network, security, software, telecom, storage and cloud solutions to its customers, and consistently brings innovative new products onto its solution portfolio.

The Japanese market is on the leading edge of using automation technologies for enabling cloud infrastructure. One key building block of cloud infrastructures is the VNI, and PLUMgrid platform is the most well thought out VNI solution in the market.

The product provides ease of integration with Content Management Solution (CMS) such as OpenStack, scales to cloud infrastructure standards and offers a comprehensive set of extensible L2-L7 virtual networking features. Macnica Networks chose to service their customers with PLUMgrid platform based on this differentiation.