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April 27, 2011 06:03 pm GMT

Openstack-based Midostack Lets Companies Scale And Manage Flexible Virtual Networks With Commodity Hardware

In July last year, Rackspace caused quite a splash in the cloud computing world when it decided to opensource the software behind its cloud storage and computing platforms to create Openstack, an Iaas-based cloud platform (more on that from the Scobleizer). Fast forward 9 months, and we are seeing over 60 companies worldwide (Dell, Cisco, Intel, NTT Data to name just a few) developing solutions based on Openstack.Tokyo-based Midokura is currently working to solve a hard problem that has barely been tackled before: flexibly virtualizing networks. Midokura's key technology is called Midonet, a network virtualization platform that creates a control layer on top of the physical network. The company says it's the only one to have "a true virtual network model" in a cloud stack.

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