Summary: In episode 224, Douglas Brown interviews Henrik Rosendahl, Co-founder and CEO of Akanda, Inc. Henrik and Douglas discuss Akanda’s newly announced Open Source Network Virtualization solution. Henrik dives deep in to what network virtualization is, why we need it, why we should care and so much more. About Akanda, Inc. Akanda, Inc. is the major developer and supporter of the open source Akanda network virtualization software project. Akanda software is changing the future of networking by delivering an open, extensible and cost effective platform for service providers and enterprise to virtualize their cloud networking implementations. Akanda currently integrates with OpenStack Neutron and supports VMWare NSX for Layer 2, and powers network virtualization for DreamCompute, the OpenStack-based public cloud offered by DreamHost. Akanda interfaces with the OpenStack Neutron REST APIs and includes a sophisticated management and orchestration platform to monitor, configure, and manage virtualized routers. In the future, Akanda will be extended to virtualize additional network functions, including load balancing and firewalls, and will feature pluggable backends to a diversity of Layer 2 overlays. ] For more information, visit www.akanda.io Follow Akanda on Twitter Join Akanda on Facebook Go to the Akanda repository on GitHub About Henrik Rosendahl Henrik Rosendahl is Co-founder and CEO of Akanda, Inc. He served as CEO at Pancetera from January 2010 until the company was acquired by Quantum. Previously, Rosendahl was director of Application Virtualization at VMware, Inc., from 2008 to December 2010 and CEO at Thinstall, Inc., from 2006 until its acquisition by VMware. Earlier in his career, he held executive and senior leadership positions at several high-tech start-ups in the U.S. and Europe – See more at: www.linkedin.com/in/hrosendahl/
