ARISTA's Software Defined Networking

 Do take a look at the ARISTA Software Defined Networking or ARISTA SDN Ecosystem.

1.  Arista & VMware on Software Defined Networking
2. Software Defined Cloud Networking
3. The Four Pillars of Software Defined Cloud Networks (SDCN)

ARISTA Switch - Error Detection Automation

From ARISTA site. This video clip is quite useful in explaining AEM Use Case: 'Error Detection Automation'

Advanced Event Management (AEM), a sub-system of Arista EOS, the world's most advanced network operating system, is a powerful and flexible tool to automate tasks and customize the behavior of EOS and the operation of the overall data center switching infrastructure.

1. Event-driven controls bring simplicity to network operations: Exporting massive amounts of data from the switch to a server just to find some small subset of information is inefficient and unnecessarily complex. Why not let the individual network elements do the work of parsing and alerting based on configurable events. By reducing the 'noise' operations staff increase their visibility to critical events.
2.  AEM allows operators to fully utilize the intelligence within EOS to respond to real-time events, automate routine tasks, and take local automated action based on real-time network conditions for improved network performance. 
3. According to Gartner Group 80% of mission-critical systems outages through 2015 will be caused by people and process issues: AEM is purpose-built to enhance system up-time and enable distributed systems automation to simplify complex tasks, react programmatically to network changes, and to simplify complex troubleshooting tasks—thus minimizing systems outages.

Understanding VXLAN Virtual-Physical-Cloud L2/L3 Networks by ARISTA

Interesting Article....From ARISTA

Understanding VXLAN Virtual-Physical-Cloud L2/L3 Networks by ARISTA (pdf)

Video interview - Vmware CTO Steve Herrod and Arista Founder, CDO, Chairman Andy Bechstolsheim

Video interview - Vmware CTO Steve Herrod andArista Founder, CDO, Chairman Andy Bechstolsheim

1. Introduction to the CTO Video Series with Steve Herrod
2. Part I: The State of Cloud Computing: Applications as a Service
3. Part II: The Semantics of Cloud
4. Part III: Moore's Law and its Impact on Software Infrastructure and Network Capacity
5. Part IV: Storage: From Mechanics to Silicon and Network Scalability
6. Part V: Andy's Current Software Focus at Arista
7. Part VI: Power Efficiency and Chip Design
8. Part VII: Power and the Datacenter: The Impact of Software Improvments
9. Part VIII: Private vs Public Cloud: Transparency and Economics
10. Part IX: Security and the Cloud
11. Part X: Arista and the Importance of Low Latency
12. Part XI: Today's Financial Trading Model
13. Part XII: What Technologies are Interesting to Andy?
14. Part XIII: Who Does Andy Admire: Einstein vs The Hardy Boys
15. Part XIV: The Importance of Science Education
16. Part XV: Wrap-up