Doherty is also the creator and co-author of the Networking Simplified series of books, which includes Cisco Networking Simplified, Home Networking Simplified, and several other titles. He has also written books on mobile security and other networking topics.

Jim is a former U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Duke University. Jim lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife and two children.

Part 2
Virtualization 201: Virtualizing the Data Center (aka Clouds)
Chapter 5 Virtualized Data Centers (some call them “clouds”)
Chapter 6 Virtual Machine Connectivity
Chapter 7 Networking Gear in the Virtualized Data Centers
Chapter 8 VMWare VMotion and VXLAN
Chapter 9 Multi-tenancy and problems of communal living

Part 3
Network Functions Virtualized – Why stop with servers?
Chapter 10 How do you virtualize a network?
Chapter 11 Virtualizing Appliances
Chapter 12 Virtualizing core networking functions
Chapter 13 What about scalability and performance?

Part 4
Modern Networking Approaches to Virtualization
Chapter 14 From consumers to creators
Chapter 15 OpenFlow
Chapter 16 VMWare Nicera
Chapter 17 Cisco Inseieme
Chapter 18 OpenStack

Part 5
Software Defined Networks – Virtualizing the Network
Chapter 19 What’s wrong with the network we have?
Chapter 20 How it works
Chapter 21 SDN Benefits
Chapter 22 The economic impact of SDN

Part 6
Clever Name for SDN Controllers
Chapter 22 SDN Controllers
Chapter 23 Open DayLight, HP, etc.
Chapter 24 The fight to control your network
Chapter 25 What’s the business case for SDN?

Part 7
Virtualized Networks The Way to Connect it all Together
Chapter 26 Goodbye Truck Roll
Chapter 27 If it fits… does it fit?
Chapter 28 Service Chaining
Chapter 29 What happens to all the network appliances?

Part 8
Security --- The Security Thing
Chapter 30 Where's my data, exactly?
Chapter 31 Preventing Data Leakage
Chapter 32 Logging and Auditing
Chapter 33 Encryption in virtual networks (at rest and in motion)
Chapter 34 What's old is new again

Part 9
Visibility
Chapter 35 Overlay Networks
Chapter 36 Monitoring Tools
Chapter 37 Quality of Experience
Chapter 38 Monitoring Traffic between Virtual Switches

Part 10
The Big Picture
Chapter 39 Putting it all together
Chapter 40 How SDN and NFV will affect you
Chapter 41 What's next in networking?
 

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