F5, VMware & Cisco: One happy family?

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F5 execs: We're blasting virtualization beyond Layer 3

Cisco claims scuttled by VMware

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November 12, 2013

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F5, VMware & Cisco: One happy family?

At first blush, F5 Networks' new Synthesis Architecture for Software-Defined Application Services might appear to compete with new offerings from Cisco and VMware. But no, F5 CEO John McAdam and executive vice president of Strategic Solutions Manuel Rivelo tell IDG Communications Chief Content Officer John Gallant that F5 is very much in sync with these two data center giants (we did not, however, press them on the relationship between Cisco and VMware).

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F5 execs: We're blasting virtualization beyond Layer 3

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Cisco claims scuttled by VMware

In criticizing software-only overlays for network virtualization, two points Cisco continually brings up are hypervisor dependency and the need to touch all endpoints when changes are made to the virtual. But VMware, the chief target of Cisco's criticism, takes issue with both counts. READ MORE

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