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Few doubt that the premise of software-defined-networking (SDN) is a good one: organisations that run a lot of virtual machines and virtual networks can benefit from the flexibility and automation SDN provides. Critics, however, point out that SDN in its current form might not have particularly broad applicability: there just …

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  1. Ian Michael Gumby

    Meh.

    Its a solution looking for a problem.

    In terms of 'Big Data' aka Hadoop, you don't have a bandwidth issue.

    Your cluster is homogenous on the internal corporate network and is isolated as much as possible.

    If you're running your own data center and are running hadoop, you should have layer 2 VLAN capability as well as high speed switches.

    Sorry, but if you're going to be spending millions on a Hadoop solution... (think hundreds of nodes), you're going to be spending $$$ on real ToR switches and serious networking hardware.

    Of course, you'll see FB doing something stupid spending $$$ to save $.

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