Catching up with your friends at your high school reunion is all well and fun before the conversation turns to work. It seems like all your friends have well-paying jobs, and you’re stuck with a demanding one that’s underpaid. What if there were a way you could land better jobs or further your career path? […]

If there’s a working system, it needs monitoring. Networking systems for enterprises are rather complicated and such a set up almost always requires continuous vigilance and monitoring. Whether you choose to set up a server, tag along about five computers and monitor your small business network manually or choose to go enterprise and use a FCAPS (Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security) – the usual ISO telecommunications Management Network Model – this monitoring is what alerts you to signs that something is wrong within your network.

Virtualization stretches the servers, enables scaling up of IT resources on demand and provides a cost-effective alternative to power-hungry data centres. Given all those benefits, it makes sense to use virtualization for networks too. Virtual network components seem to be a logical advancement for the otherwise hardware-based network architecture incumbent in most companies at the time of this writing.