Welcome to the virtualized network. Everything from packet processing to storage management has moved into virtual machines that can be deployed as necessary.
Remember the relatively simplistic days of networking life? PCs functioned with hard disks and network cards, and those network cards were connected to network hubs or switches. Another box usually featured a firewall or gateway.
Many data centers have been built around this approach, often with...
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