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Why Physical Networks Don't Cut It for the Private Cloud

Organizations are adopting private clouds with great gusto, however, building a private cloud means offering a whole new model for service delivery from the data center based on virtualization, orchestration, multi-tenancy, provisioning, etc. This expert tip discusses why physical networks don’t cut it for the cloud, addressing multi-tenancy in the private cloud and the cloud VLAN challenge.

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