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Latest NewsQuilt NewsThe Quilt Releases National RFP for OpenFlow Enabled Network Switches May 11, 2012
Today, The Quilt released its first RFP to perform a national review of OpenFlow enabled network switch equipment providers. This RFP is the formal mechanism for this review. One of the missions of the research and education community is to engage with its many partners, including industry, to design, develop and support experimental, leading edge technologies in order to drive advancements in academic networking and research. The Quilt has a successful track record of creating meaning partnerships with industry and managing consortium buying agreements for its member along with the 200+ higher education institutions they serve. One of the goals of the RFP is to promote and enable software -defined networking capabilities to scale to more regional and campus networks by leveraging our community’s collective experience and interest in software-defined networking .
There is a well-defined track record of success for companies who have created meaningful partnerships with this leading-edge networking community. Quilt organizations and the institutions they connect are consistently early adopters of new technologies, including but not limited to network technologies and ways of implementing them. The Quilt also leads the curve in finding new ways to organize networks to multi-organizational benefit. Our unsurpassed level of expertise in the customer community has been a valuable resource to our industry partners.
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Using MREN, Tukey enables scientists to share their big datasets with researchers around the country and the world Chicago, Illinois (PRWEB) April 04, 2012
Today, the Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) announced the availability of Tukey, which is an innovative integrated set of cloud services designed specifically to enable scientific researchers to manage, analyze and make discoveries with big data.
Several public cloud service providers provide resources for individual scientists and small research groups, and large research groups can build their own dedicated infrastructure for big data. However, currently, there is no cloud service provider that is focused on providing services to projects that must work with big data, but are not large enough to build their own dedicated clouds.
Tukey is the first set of integrated cloud services to fill this niche.
Other R&E Networking NewsSCinet Call for Network Resources for SC12/Salt Lake City – Responses due by June 8, 2012
The University of Utah and the Utah Education Network (UEN) are partnering with SCinet to
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