SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 01/20/16 — , the global innovator in software network virtualization, today announced it will present multiple sessions at , to be held January 25-28, 2016, in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. and at , to be held January 30-31 in Brussels, Belgium.

Cynthia Thomas, Systems Engineer at Midokura and M.H. Raza, Founder and CEO at Fiber Mountain

Thursday, Jan. 28 from 12:00 – 12:55 p.m. ET

Room NS-14, Greater Ft. Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center

Moderated by Frost & Sullivan Analyst Ronald Gruia, this session will explore NFV and SDN use cases, the economics behind adoption, and a variety of other related topics. Cynthia will also discuss how SDN can be used as a powerful security tool by making use of NVOs to isolate virtual machines from attackers.

Nicolas Schiper, Software Engineer at Midokura

Sunday, Jan. 31 from 10:00 – 10:25 a.m. CET

Room AW1.126, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Solbosch Campus

The architects building MidoNet, an open source network virtualization solution from Midokura, have chosen open source technologies as building blocks. This session will explore how MidoNet relies on Apache ZooKeeper and Kafka to store the virtual network topology and network state such as MAC and ARP tables.

Duarte Nunes, Software Engineer at Midokura

Sunday, Jan. 31 from 1:00 – 1:25 p.m. CET

Room UA2.114 (Baudoux), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Solbosch Campus

This session will cover the challenges of scalability that cloud-scale, distributed virtual SDN solutions face, the tradeoffs involved, and how these issues are solved in Midokura–s MidoNet technology.

Antoni Segura Puimedon, Software Engineer at Midokura

Sunday, Jan. 31 from 1:30 – 2:10 p.m. CET

Room, UB2.252A (Lameere), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Solbosch Campus

This session will provide an introduction to Kuryr, a popular new open source project that makes OpenStack Neutron networking plugins like MidoNet and others available to Docker containers by means of a libnetwork remote driver, as well as a live demo of the integration between the two worlds that will see its release with OpenStack Mitaka.

Midokura–s award-winning flagship product, , is a production-ready, enterprise-grade network virtualization solution designed for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. The company also offers an of the core MidoNet technology, which is quickly gaining in popularity among organizations of all sizes in over 120 countries.

To learn more about MEM and to register for a free trial, visit: . To learn more about open source MidoNet, visit: .

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Founded in 2010, Midokura was an early global leader in network virtualization. The company–s pedigree includes Amazon, Cisco, Google and VMware. With its Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) solution, Midokura offers the industry a complete overlay technology that integrates with cloud platforms, such as OpenStack. Now gaining awareness in 122 countries, the source code for MidoNet is freely available at . MidoNet delivers the first truly open, vendor-agnostic network virtualization solution available to the OpenStack community. Midokura is a contributing member of the OpenStack Networking (Neutron) Project, Open Platform for NFV Project and the Open Container Initiative.

Midokura has offices in San Francisco, Tokyo and Barcelona, and is on the web at . Follow us on Twitter: .

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Lila Razzaqui
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