MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
March 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- Nuage Networks, the Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and
NYSE: ALU) venture focused on software-defined networking (SDN)
solutions, today announced that cloud provider Numergy has selected
its SDN platform for deployment within and across its datacenters
as they scale to support a total of one million virtual
machines.
Numergy is a cloud provider specializing in the construction and
operation of cloud computing infrastructure in key European
markets. According to Gartner's Forecast: Public Cloud Services,
Worldwide, 2011-2017, 4Q13 Update (December
2013), Cloud System Infrastructure Services (IAAS) end user
spending in Western Europe is
growing at 32.1% CAGR (2012-2017), and the market size will
reach $5.9B by 2017. This year alone,
Numergy plans to open two datacenters, with the goal of 10
additional datacenters in operation over the next three years, all
with the Nuage Networks solution embedded.
Numergy opted to implement Nuage Networks' Virtualized Services
Platform (VSP) and 7850 Virtualized Services Gateway (VSG) as well
as the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router to manage and automate
its datacenter networks to be more programmable and operationally
efficient. One of Numergy's primary goals was to build their cloud
infrastructure on open technologies, and Nuage Networks' philosophy
of building open cloud environments that avoid lock-in aligned well
with their wants and needs.
"We are pleased to implement the Nuage Networks product suite in
our cloud infrastructure," said Numergy CEO, Philippe Tavernier. "The Nuage Networks SDN
technology allows us to address key performance and compliance
requirements for virtualizing our infrastructure and enabling the
range of cloud services that are essential for meeting our
enterprise customers' needs."
Numergy requires a network whose capabilities can be abstracted
in alignment with of the needs of diverse customer applications.
The Nuage Networks SDN solution provides datacenter network
virtualization and automation that transforms datacenters into
reflexive environments that instantaneously establish the network
services required to deliver cloud infrastructure across millions
of virtual machines.
The Nuage Networks VSP is an SDN solution that fully automates
datacenter networks, creating secure "slices" for each user group
or tenant while reducing provisioning time from days to seconds.
This includes:
- Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Controller (VSC):
Serves as the robust control plane of the datacenter network,
maintaining a full per-tenant view of network and service
topologies. Through network APIs using interfaces such as Openflow,
the VSC programs the datacenter network agnostic of datacenter
networking hardware.
- Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Directory (VSD):
Serves as a policy, business logic & analytics engine for the
abstract definition of network services. Through RESTful APIs to
the VSD, administrators can define and refine service designs and
incorporate enterprise policies.
- Nuage Networks Virtual Routing and Switching (VRS):
Serves as a virtual endpoint for network services. Through the VRS,
changes in the compute environment are immediately detected,
triggering instantaneous policy-based establishment of network
connectivity within and across datacenters to ensure that the needs
of applications are met.
Also included as part of the implementation is the Nuage
Networks 7850 VSG. Working in concert with Nuage Networks VSP, the
7850 VSG extends the benefits of SDN automation to Numergy's
non-virtualized datacenter assets as well.
Teaming with Nuage Networks enables Numergy to implement and
scale automated cloud networks across their geo-distributed
infrastructure. Additional benefits include:
- Service provisioning speed and agility: Setting up
networks in an SDN can be as easy and timely as creating virtual
machine (VM) instances. Unlike traditional networks that are highly
configuration driven and manual, Nuage Networks allows network
connectivity to follow seamlessly and instantaneously according to
pre-defined policies.
- Control: The solution provides a common policy framework
through which Numergy maintains full control and visibility of
their infrastructure, minimizing manual intervention while ensuring
that performance and compliance guidelines are met.
- Network flexibility and holistic management: SDNs enable
"network experimentation without impact. " Nuage Networks allows
Numergy to bypass traditional datacenter network restrictions and
experiment freely with new network configurations that better
support customer scenarios.
- Lowered expenditures: Through a dramatically more
operationally efficient approach, by making optimal use of
datacenter assets, and by reducing dependencies on proprietary
hardware and dedicated appliances, Numergy expects to realize
significant economic benefits.
"We are excited to work with Numergy in support of their cloud
initiative, a massive multi-tenant infrastructure that can scale
elastically and respond instantaneously through a programmable and
automated network infrastructure," said Sunil Khandekar, Nuage Networks CEO. "Our
technology is primed for such a task and will enable their cloud
infrastructure to be more agile, secure, and responsive, giving
Numergy the ability to deliver innovative and compelling cloud
services to enterprises in France
and throughout their European footprint."
ABOUT NUAGE NETWORKS
Nu-âhj: From French, meaning 'cloud'.
Nuage Networks brings a unique combination of groundbreaking
technologies and unmatched networking expertise to the enterprise
and telecommunications industries. The Silicon Valley-based start
up has applied radically new thinking to the problem of delivering
massively scalable and high programmable SDN solutions with the
security and availability required by business-critical
environments. Nuage Networks, backed by Alcatel-Lucent's (Euronext
Paris and NYSE: ALU) rapidly growing IP division, has the pedigree
to serve the needs of the world's biggest clouds. The cloud has
made promises – the mission of Nuage Networks is to help you
realize them.
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