Hello
I wasn't really sure where to ask the question so I ended up in CSC ideas.
It seems there are a variety of traditional network appliances being offered as virtual machines, wan optimisation being a prime example being pushed by other suppliers also routers, firewalls and load balancers are on offer from various people. These are often open source so don't cost anything but I would imagine, and have read, they don't have the same robustness as Cisco.. My questions for discussion are:
- Does anyone know if Cisco has development of virtual machines in the road map for WAAS, or other products?
- What do others think about running the traditional appliances on VM's, not looking for other vendor suggestions but I've got little experience of them - think I'd have to be convinced of their stability!?
Cheers
Martin