Author: Tom Nolle

We’re in the throes of one show involving SDN and NFV and in less than 2 weeks, the SDN World Congress event where NFV was launched in the first place will be underway.  It’s not surprising we’re getting a lot of SDN and NFV action, so let’s take a look at some of the main…

The world of SDN continues to evolve, and as is usually the case many of the evolutions have real utility.  The challenge continues to be the conceptualization of a flexible new network framework that exploits what SDN can do, and at an even more basic level provide the framework by which the different SDN models…

In mid-October the SDN World Congress marks the anniversary of the first NFV white paper’s publication.  SDN is far older than that, and the cloud is older still.  I attended a cloud conference last week, and while it was interesting and even insightful in spots, it’s pretty clear that we’re still missing a big part…

Well, the story now is that Blackberry is following Dell’s example and going private.  Certainly there are simple financial reasons for that, but I also have to wonder whether some of the same “SOX-think” I talked about with Dell be operating here too.  If there’s a turnaround in play for Blackberry it’s going to be…

We have software defined networks, software defined data centers, software defined servers.  What’s missing?  I contend it’s the most obvious thing of all; software designed software.  We’ve built a notion of virtualization and agility at the resource level, but we’re forgetting that all of the stuff we’re proposing is being purchased to run software.  If…

The world of SDN and NFV is always interesting, like a developing news story filled with little side channels and some major scoops.  One of the latter just came from RAD, whose “distributed NFV” raises what I think are some very interesting points about the evolution of the network. The traditional picture of NFV is…

I know there’s already been a lot said about the Microsoft deal for Nokia, but I think that the deal may have some angles that still need more exploring!  That includes the “NSN dimension” of the deal, of course. The biggest implication of the Microsoft/Nokia deal is that it doubles down on smartphones for Microsoft. …

The Light Reading story on Verizon comments regarding  cloud adoption by enterprises is yet another example of the issues that face a revolutionary development in an age of instant knowledge gratification.  It’s a decent story, and it frames the cloud dilemma of our time.  There is no question that the cloud is revolutionary, but there’s…

If you like hype, you love the cloud, and SDN, and now NFV.  You also love big data and the Internet of things.  I’m not saying that any of these things are total frauds, or even that some of them aren’t true revolutions, but the problem is that we’ve so papered over the value propositions…

If you’re a cloud fan, which I am in at least the sense that I believe there’s a cloud in everyone’s future, it’s been a mixed week for news.  VMware has announced its Nicira-based NaaS platform aimed I think at cloud data centers, and the move has gained a lot of traction among the “anybody-but-Cisco”…