Easing the pressure on datacenter infrastructure

How Nokia’s SR Linux NOS enhances automation to even out performance and maintain business continuity

Sponsored Post There's no getting away from the fact that modern datacenters need the scale and capacity to handle huge volumes of information.

The fifth generation (5G), Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies which power today's applications and services have increasingly stringent performance requirements. Which means that underlying datacenter infrastructure is under pressure to store, process and transmit large amounts of data more quickly and efficiently than ever before.

A key component of that infrastructure is the network, tasked with moving data to and from users and compute resources not only to deliver fast and reliable services, but also to make sure that traffic is still delivered during periods of peak demand and to ensure that business continuity is maintained in the event of any disruption.

That's what Nokia's SR Linux was designed to help datacenter operators achieve. The open network operating system (NOS) is built with a model driven management architecture, and provides deep levels of network information including state, that are readily available across all services in the system via any modern API.

It's a modern approach which can also be used to enhance intent-driven network automation at scale across the entire lifecycle of the fabric from design, deployment to operations says Nokia.

If automation is to help drive operational efficiency while achieving optimal performance, knowing exactly what's happening in the network is critical. That's why SR Linux was designed to provide enhanced levels of visibility and implement checks across all phases of the fabric's lifecycle to ensure that any irregularity or suspicious state is recognized and diagnosed.

Support for standard interfaces and protocols means SR Linux can be deployed in all kinds of operational environments, a useful capability given the evolutionary nature of the datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM) landscape in most hosting facilities today. With open-source Linux at its heart, the NOS also has the backing of community resources which provide a comprehensive library of knowledge, support and add on tools to help operators' networks deal with the data tsunami.

You can learn more about the capabilities of Nokia's SR Linux NOS by clicking this link.

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