Cloud Advisory Council to Host SDN Webinar: Big Switch Networks to Speak on Network Virtualization and OpenStack

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Cloud Advisory Council, an innovative not-for-profit organization dedicated to develop and enable the next-generation cloud architecture, today announced a live, interactive joint webinar with Big Switch Networks on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and network virtualization. Key benefits of deploying network virtualization technology and how this technology augments the OpenStack platform will be addressed. The webinar will also focus on how technologies like OpenFlow and various tunneling protocols can be used to implement network virtualization.

What:		Network Virtualization and OpenStack
When:		Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 8:00 am Pacific Time / 11:00 am Eastern
Speakers:		Mike Cohen, Director of Strategic Alliances, Big Switch Networks; Eli Karpilovski, Chairman, Cloud Advisory Council
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About Big Switch Networks

Big Switch Networks is the leader in Open Software-Defined Networking. The company’s Open SDN platform embraces industry standards, open APIs, open source, and vendor-neutral support for both physical and virtual networking infrastructure. Big Switch Networks product suite supports a broad range of networking applications, including network virtualization for public and private cloud data centers built upon OpenStack, CloudStack and other platforms. For more information, visit www.bigswitch.com or follow us on Twitter @BigSwitch

About the Cloud Advisory Council

The Cloud Advisory Council is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to develop the next generation cloud architecture, to provide cloud designers and it managers with the tools needed to enable computing in the cloud, to strengthen the qualification and integration of cloud solutions and to provide best practices. The Cloud Advisory Council is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners and corporations. For more information, visit www.cloudadvisorycouncil.com, or follow us on Twitter: @Cloud_Advisory.