I mentioned John Reilly, a TMF guru, in a prior blog, with a sad note at his passing. And speaking of notes, I took the time over the weekend to read my notes on our conversations. I was struck again by John’s insights, particularly when a lot of his points related to issues not yet…
I did not attend the meeting of the Common NFVI Telco Task Force (CNTT) but I have spent a good bit of my day yesterday sorting through emails from those who did attend. Without revealing any confidences, it’s pretty clear to me that like many telecom virtualization debates, the CNTT stuff is demonstrating that we…
Can we capture innovation and reality at the same time? I said in an earlier blog that past IT spending waves had come along because we moved IT closer to the worker. That simple process has driven every one of our IT revolutions, raising the rate of IT spending growth by 40% over the five-decade…
The hybrid cloud might be coming into its own. For over a year, it’s been clear that enterprises are finally getting their acts together on hybrid cloud, and cloud providers were starting to position more for enterprise adoption. This quarter, we’ve seen two players with the credentials to further expand the hybrid-cloud universe show signs…
According to a Reuters article the other day, blockchain is a “shiny mirage”. The administrator of LinkedIn’s Carrier Ethernet group asked in a post on 5G “Who (which customer) exactly is clamoring for this And, how does it make sense, when 4G itself hasn’t been adequately monetized yet?” Why is it that over the last…
Everyone talks about cloud-native, but like the weather, nobody seems to be able to do much about it. In fact, the interest in the concept often seems so abstract that you could argue “cloud-native” is a state of mind. It’s not, of course, but clearly something is missing between the raising of the interest profile,…
Most would agree NFV has not met expectations. I’ve blogged about the things I believe are the issues, and the feedback I got from operators on those blogs has included operators’ own views on the subject. They’re not always congruent with my own (in some cases they’re almost contrary), but they are always interesting, given…
Cisco’s decision to buy Acacia has drawn praise and some pans from Street analysts worried about what the deal will do to Acacia’s sale to Cisco’s competitors. There are reasons for the deal, I think, that don’t seem to be coming out in the media, and in some ways, it seems to buck a trend…
One of the most profound benefits of the cloud is the elasticity or scalability that virtualization of hosting resources can create. Think of it as having a computer whose power expands and contracts with the level of presented work and you’ll get the idea. The problem is that this kind of scalability isn’t a natural…
In this second of my pieces on the things we’re forgetting in carrier cloud, NFV, and lifecycle automation, I want to look at the issue of tenancy. You may have noticed that VNFs, and the NFV processes in general, tend to be focused on single-tenant services. Virtual CPE (vCPE), the current leader in VNF popularity,…