I mentioned data plane feature hosting in my last blog, noting that we needed to spend some time looking at the connection-service elements and how we’d propose to make them candidates for hosted and cloud-native implementation. I propose to start the ball rolling with this blog, and to do that we have to look at…
Cloud-native technology is important to everyone, and critical to many, but there’s already a trend toward seeing cloud-native as sweeping everything else from the tech world. I think it’s certain that every enterprise will end up adopting cloud-native applications or application components, and that at least three quarters of all applications will have cloud-native elements,…
Does VMware have a plan to transform the carrier cloud? It’s far from an idle question, especially now that IBM has acquired Red Hat. Cloud computing is transforming under the stimulus of “cloud-native” thinking and planning, and there’s no vertical market where that’s needed more than the carrier cloud space. Network operators have been locked…
Could one of our problems with a software-defined future be as simple as terminology? When I noted in my blog that terms like “network management system” or “operations support system” were implicitly monolithic, implying a traditional single-structure application, I had a lot of operators contact me to agree. Certainly, we have a long history of…
What’s happening in the cloud market? It seems (from stories in both the technology and financial press) like growth in public cloud service revenues is slowing, and some have suggested the market is nearing a plateau. The truth is more complex (as usual), because there are a number of forces acting on the same market…
Recently I had a friend ask me why some things I’d declared as failures were considered successful by the media. The obvious reason is that something that’s good for publicity is good to the media; their standard of success is different. The less obvious reason, and one just as pervasive, is what I’ll call “success…
If calling a personal agent a “ghost companion” is fair, then it’s fair to say that adding artificial intelligence to our artificial companion could be a good idea. It’s also very likely that the concept of information fields could be enhanced through the application of AI. How much we could expect and how complicated these…
Contextualization has a lot of pieces, but the most obvious is the “contextualizer”, the trusted personal agent process that actually interacts with the information fields that contribute to context, and from them generates contextual results. This is the third blog in the series; the FIRST and SECOND should be read before you dive in here….
This is the second piece of my series on contextualization, and it focuses on the implementation of the “information fields” concept that’s one of two key elements in my contextualization model. If you missed the first, it’s available HERE. The third blog in the series will cover the other key element, the trusted agent, and…
It is my view that contextualization is the most important issue in networking. If the history of advances in IT can be linked, as I believe, to bringing technology closer to consumers/workers, then the ultimate step is to make tech a participant in our lives. We’re seeing early initiatives in this direction with things like…