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Pluribus Networks Adaptive Cloud Fabric

Pluribus Networks recently unveiled its new Adaptive Cloud Fabric, touting it as a simple, dynamic and secure approach to building a holistic distributed network that brings the benefits of cloud-scale, elasticity and adaptability to the modern data center. The virtualized architecture integrates a broad range of advanced network services while providing visibility for all network traffic.

Built on Pluribus' Netvisor network virtualization software, the fabric operates without a controller and delivers an elastic network that adopts to change and a wide range of deployment scenarios to streamline operations, improve efficiency and lower costs, said the company. The offering can be deployed across the data center or on specific racks, servers and hyper-converged infrastructure from vendors such as Nutanix and Dell.