In the cloud model, data center managers can mix and match computing, storage, and network resources to provide customers with agile and efficient methods. In order to realize its full potential, this model requires the deployment of an open, standards-based interface between the computing resource layer, the network layer, and the storage device layer of the data center. From the point of view of industry development, the computing and storage tiers have become open in the past few years, but the network still maintains its exclusivity to a large extent. As an emerging computing model, cloud computing has created a new era in ensuring the flexibility and controllability of data center resource allocation and supply. Force10's Open Cloud Networking Framework (OCN) aims to release the network layer so that data center operators can make full use of the data center architecture to maximize the effectiveness of their cloud deployment.

The backward network layer looks at the history of computation and is a history that gradually moves from proprietary to open. Since the era of major machines where computing, networking, and storage resources are proprietary resources, the industry has been firmly committed to the openness and standardization of these resource layers in the data center. For example, both server and software vendors tend to adopt the Intel X86 architecture based on standardized operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and VMWare. Similarly, storage vendors have been collaborating on Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI standards.

In this case, customers are not willing to bundle themselves at the speed of innovation of a certain vendor. Globally, leaders from social networks, search engines, and game portals are continuously integrating open products in their own ways, rather than relying on suppliers to tell them how to build data centers as they once did. The network is growing at an unprecedented rate.

On the other hand, the pace of innovation has accelerated. In the past, because the three layers of the data center stack were all from the same provider, the mainframe development cycle was often calculated over several years. Now that a standards-based product development ecosystem has been established, the speed of change can be calculated monthly.

Ultimately, all layers of the data center stack—including computing, storage, and networking—will be open to provide customers with the richest selection and greatest flexibility. The architecture, automation, and ecosystem will also be open to fully meet the most extensive needs of data center owners.

The trend towards openness makes it relatively easy to build a dynamic virtualized data center. In a dynamic virtualized data center environment, the creation or deactivation of computing resources can be implemented in the running state, which is the essence of cloud computing. But unfortunately, the development of the network layer has not kept pace with the open development. Each major network vendor has developed proprietary software, control planes, or interconnect technologies that limit the user's flexibility in selecting computing servers and storage devices. It is the right to limit choices, and the closed network layer forces users to build data centers in specific ways that do not meet their actual needs. In contrast, an open ecosystem can help architects use state-of-the-art technology to build data centers quickly and flexibly.

Open Cloud Network Framework Open Ecosystem Force10 is committed to the industry's leading provider of standards-based, market-oriented solutions and technologies that provide data centers with unmatched flexibility and flexibility in selecting the best solution. Selectivity. Force10 believes that an open ecosystem is a key and essential element in unlocking the full potential of a data center. In short, it is (optionally) quantitative safeguards - the more people involved in problem solving and innovation, the better.

In the end, the widest range of ecosystems has the highest degree of choice. Force10 is supporting and actively participating in the construction of an open ecosystem that not only provides switching solutions for a wide range of different industries, but also is committed to achieving compatibility with other leading open computing and open storage solutions.

In addition, Force10 is actively involved in the development of open cloud computing standards and has become a founding member of the Open Network Foundation. Force10 is also a member of Intel's Open Data Center Program (ODCI).