Quick Take: Vyatta Takes Virtual Networking to Cloud

Earlier this month, Vyatta announced completion of its Series C round of financing resulting in US$10M in new capital led primarily by new partner Citrix. Vyatta provides an open source alternative to traditional networking vendors like Cisco - providing software and hardware solutions targeted at the same routing, firewall and VPN market otherwise served by Cisco's 2800, 7200 and ASA line of devices. Its software is certified to run in Xen and VMware environments.

In a related announcement, Citrix has certified Vyatta's products for use with its Citrix Cloud Center (C3) product family to "make it as easy as possible for service providers and enterprises to use Vyatta with Citrix products such as XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer and NetScaler." With the addition of Citrix Delivery Systems Division GM Gordon Payne to the Vyatta board of directors, the now "closer coupling" of Citrix with Vyatta could accelerate the adoption of Vyatta in virtual infrastructures.

SOLORI's Take: We've been using Vyatta's software in lab and production applications for some time - primarily in HA routing applications where automatic routing protocols like OSPF or BGP are needed. Virtualizing Vyatta provides additional HA capabilities to cloud environments by extending infrastructure migration from the application layer all the way down to layer-3. In applications where it is a good fit, Vyatta provides an excellent solution component for the 100% virtualized environment.