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Don't Miss DemoFriday™ with PLUMgrid Highlighting Production-Grade OpenStack Cloud Networking

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Mark Your Calendar: PLUMgrid DemoFriday™ to Highlight Production-Ready Cloud Networks on Day One

 SUNNYVALE, CALIF. — PLUMgrid, the worldwide leader of secure cloud networks for public and private clouds, today announced the general availability of the PLUMgrid OpenStack Networking Suite and its deployment at leading IT solutions and telecom service provider Swisscom(SCMN.VX).

As market acceptance and deployments of OpenStack increase, the need for a secure, scalable and multi-tenant cloud networking solution has become essential. Customers today want a flexible and agile software solution that is open and holistic, solving networking issues throughout the cloud lifecycle.

“PLUMgrid is the first company to deliver a comprehensive cloud networking suite to help our customers build OpenStack clouds without worrying about scale, performance and security,” said Awais Nemat, Co-founder and CEO at PLUMgrid. “Our solution reduces the time to build clouds, lowers overall cost and accelerates delivery of new services to market.”

The PLUMgrid OpenStack Networking Suite is a secure, comprehensive and open software solution that delivers terabits of performance and scales across tens of thousands of workloads. Built on thePLUMgrid Platform and IO Visor™ technology, it provides highly automated workflows that significantly reduce the deployment time of OpenStack clouds and enables users to create privateVirtual Domains™ for applications and projects. Virtual Domains provide isolation, security and policy enforcement across tenants.

The PLUMgrid OpenStack Networking Suite simplifies operations with built-in monitoring, analytics and troubleshooting tools. Its distributed architecture and high-availability features ensure that maintenance and upgrades can be performed with no downtime. The PLUMgrid OpenStack Networking Suite is integrated with the leading OpenStack distributions and is certified with Red Hat OpenStack 4.0.

"Many enterprises adopting private cloud, as well as service providers offering public cloud, have a genuine need for network infrastructure that is closely aligned with the performance, scalability, security and automation requirements that cloud demands," said Brad Casemore, Director of Research for Datacenter Networks at IDC. "These customers also have operational models that are different from those of traditional enterprises with more conventional client-server workloads. PLUMgrid is focused exclusively on this cloud opportunity, correctly perceiving that cloud implies a set of requirements that traditional approaches to networking, architectural and operational, were not designed to solve."

PLUMgrid is the first company to introduce key networking innovations for OpenStack cloud. They include:

 Encrypted Virtual Domain - end-to-end data plane encryption for all network traffic within a Virtual Domain. This unique capability provides cryptographic isolation across tenants, removes threats of cross-contamination and security exposure, and helps businesses meet compliance requirements.

Terabits of Performance - 40Gbs of throughput per server and terabits of scale-out performance by leveraging hardware offload capabilities within x86 servers and NICs. Details of integration and results of performance benchmarks with Mellanox are available atwww.plumgrid.com.

Cloud Scale - PLUMgrid’s unique distributed architecture allows users to scale to thousands of Virtual Domains and tens of thousands of workloads across multiple racks and locations to build large-scale cloud networks.

 PLUMgrid is also announcing the completion of its Series B round of financing, totaling $16.2 million. Longworth Venture Partners led the investment, with participation from U.S. Venture Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Swisscom Ventures. The additional funding will help PLUMgrid grow its global sales and marketing efforts, and continue to innovate for new markets.

“PLUMgrid addresses a hard problem for cloud infrastructure - how to deliver secure, scalable and automated cloud networks,” said Nilanjana Bhowmik, PLUMgrid board member and partner atLongworth Venture Partners. “The PLUMgrid team brings together solid leadership, great technology, customer focus and impeccable execution. We see a broad set of use cases for their technology, and strong capabilities to continue to lead the market.”

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“Much of the discussion around cloud computing today is focused on finding ways to deploy cloud environments faster, and cloud operators know networking is slowing it down. Today, PLUMgrid’s open software solution helps to remove networking pains, allows for faster deployment of OpenStack clouds, and enables customers to maintain scale, performance and security.” - Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

"PLUMgrid is delivering security, scale and performance for OpenStack networking. The PLUMgrid OpenStack Networking Suite promises to simplify building and operating cloud infrastructure by delivering virtualized network services at scale to solve cloud networking issues in the modern data center.” - Nick Lippis, Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Open Networking User Group

“The PLUMgrid team has clearly claimed the leadership in innovative technologies in the network virtualization infrastructure space and has now demonstrated its benefits in production environments. USVP partners with entrepreneurs that have a strong vision and want to build big companies. PLUMgrid is the first and only company to tackle the cloud network virtualization challenge head-on and holistically. An end-to-end solution in this space will go a long way in getting service providers and enterprises to adopt public and private clouds at large scale.” - Jacques Benkoski, PLUMgrid board member and Partner, U.S. Venture Partners

About PLUMgrid

By Mikael Rickna$?s :  IDG News Service | Oct 24, 2013 11:28 AM

 Virtual network infrastructure vendor PLUMgrid is bringing its platform to OpenStack Havana, adding better resiliency and scalability in large environments.

PLUMgrid's goal is to allow network administrators to completely replicate the functions of a physical network in a virtual environment, while at the same time making these networks more agile. The idea is to allow complex network topologies to be created, provisioned and migrated in an automated way.

To offer that on OpenStack, PLUMgrid has developed a plug-in that uses the Neutron (previously known as Quantum) project to integrate its software with the Havana release of the open source cloud platform. The networking capabilities built into OpenStack are only designed to provide basic functionality for configuring flat networks or simple VLAN isolation, but Neutron allows for these features to be extended by opening the door for integration with third-party networking services, including PLUMgrid's, the company said.

So-called virtual domains are the basic building blocks in a PLUMgrid-based network. They are self-contained environments that can be set up for projects, business units or cloud customers. In each virtual domain administrators can, for example, set up routers, switches, load balancers and firewalls.

There are two editions of PLUMgrid's platform: Lite and Pro. The former is priced from US$1,650 per month, and is a good fit for smaller private clouds or test and development environments, according to PLUMgrid's website. The website didn't provide any pricing for the Pro version, but it is aimed at larger private clouds and public clouds, as well as hosting virtual desktops.

On Thursday, PLUMgrid announced that it had joined the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network, as well.

PLUMgrid also integrates with VMware vSphere and vCenter to offer similar networking functionality.

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