Author: Tom Nolle

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”…

I’ve been reading a lot of commentary on network functions virtualization (NFV) and I’m sure that you all have been too.  Most of it comes from sources who are not actively involved with NFV in any way, and since the NFV ISG’s work isn’t yet public it’s a bit hard for me to see how…

HP is scheduled to report earnings tonight after the US markets close, and in keeping with my practice with Cisco, I’m going to focus today on what HP should be doing, uncluttered by the way the numbers fall.  Again as with Cisco, I may blog a bit about what actually happened. HP is an IT…

Carol Wilson raised an interesting point in an article in Light Reading on SDN and NFV—that of collaboration.  I’m happy that she found the approach CloudNFV has taken to collaboration and openness credible, but I think some more general comments on the topic would be helpful to those who want to assess how “open” a…

Well, if you thought that a telecom spending spree or an enterprise market flush with unexpected cash were going to drive Cisco and the industry to unprecedented growth, Cisco’s call likely disabused you of that notion.  While Cisco beat most estimates very slightly, its guidance was considered tepid and certainly the continued references to “challenging…

We have a bit of an interesting counterpoint story this morning, involving the future of networking and how we navigate transitions.  Let’s open with Blackberry, who has announced they will be forming an activity to seek bids for JVs, acquisitions, or whatever. Blackberry was the darling of the mobile phone space prior to the iPhone,…

NSN has changed ownership but not its name, it’s simply changed what the acronym decodes to.  “Nokia Solutions and Networks” is actually kind of appropriate at two levels.  First, obviously, it conveys Nokia’s sole ownership of the venture.  Second, it conveys that what NSN has been turning into is a “solutions” or professional services player. …