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Cumulus Networks Accelerates Move to Web-Scale Networking with Flexible, Scalable FunctionalityCumulus Networks®, the leading provider bringing web-scale networking to enterprise cloud, today announced the availability of Cumulus® Linux® 3.2, the latest version of its best-in-class Open Networking Operating System (OS) for Data-Center Switches. The new release introduces a range of features that make the path to web-scale networking simple and more consumable for customers, including general availability of the recently announced Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) feature. With mainstream adoption of public and private clouds driving more organizations toward web-scale IT principles centered around open systems, the new functionality in Cumulus Linux 3.2 deepens the features that enable network engineers to make data-center networking more efficient, flexible, and easier to operate at scale. New features in Cumulus Linux 3.2 include:
"From the very beginning we've always strived to make the Cumulus Linux platform ever more flexible, scalable, and usable for networking engineers of all backgrounds," said JR Rivers, CTO and Co-founder, Cumulus Networks. "With web-scale networking gaining mainstream adoption, these new features arm engineers with a set of tools that will make their own journey to highly scalable networks even easier." More than 500 organizations of all sizes - from small businesses to the largest web-scale data centers in the world - use Cumulus Linux, the original operating system for web-scale networking, to build affordable, high-capacity networks. Cumulus Linux 3.2, available now, provides all the ingredients to enable easier and more flexible networks for all public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Additional information
About Cumulus Networks Cumulus Networks is leading the transformation of bringing web-scale networking to enterprise cloud. As the only systems solution that fully unlocks the vertical network stacks of the modern data center, Cumulus Linux's network switch allows you to affordably build and efficiently operate your network just like the world's largest data centers. By allowing operators to use standard hardware components, Cumulus Networks offers unprecedented operational speed and agility, at the industry's most competitive cost. Cumulus Networks has received venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital (News - Alert), Peter Wagner and four of the original VMware founders. For more information visit cumulusnetworks.com or follow @cumulusnetworks. CUMULUS, the Cumulus Logo, CUMULUS NETWORKS, and the Rocket Turtle Logo (the "Marks") are trademarks and service marks of Cumulus Networks, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. You are not permitted to use the Marks without the prior written consent of Cumulus Networks. The registered trademark Linux® is used pursuant to a sublicense from LMI, the exclusive licensee of Linus Torvalds, owner of the mark on a worldwide basis.
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