HP, Thursday unveiled a new SDN App Store, an open software-defined networking (SDN) innovation platform for customers and partners, starting with six partner applications and two of its own. The App store provides HP’s ecosystem partners a go-to-market platform together with consulting and support services that will enable customers to uncover the business value of SDN, said HP.
According to HP, the SDN App store which is the first enterprise-grade SDN application ecosystem in the market, enables customers to easily discover, learn and purchase specific network applications and download them to their environment for testing and live deployment.
The six partner applications are BlueCat DNS Protector, Ecode evolve SDN orchestration software, F5 BIG DDoS Umbrella for distributed denial-of-service protection, GuardiCore Defense Suite, KEMP Adaptive Load Balancer Application, and Real Status Hyperglance cloud/SDN management platform, while its two applications are HP Network Protector and HP Network Optimizer for Microsoft Lync.
"Our customers are eager to transform their network architecture into a competitive advantage, and SDN applications make that possible. With the HP SDN App Store, we have completed the final piece of the SDN ecosystem by offering a vibrant, robust marketplace of innovations that supports more than 5 million users and provides support to customers as they migrate to SDN.”
- Antonio Neri, senior vice president and general manager, Servers and Networking, HP
