It seems like we can never get past the question of the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) ISG and the value and meaning of its approach to feature/function hosting. For those who’ve read my blogs regularly, you may find this repetitive, but not everyone has and there’s been some LinkedIn comments that suggest that some who…
There’s been a lot of telco interest in “cloud-native” architectures for features and functions. The NFV ISG redid (to an extent) its model to accommodate that goal (see this excellent summary), and it’s also a goal of the Nephio project that targets the use of Kubernetes to deploy telco service elements. The problem is that…
I blogged at the end of last year that the question about Oracle’s cloud service wasn’t whether it was hot, but why it was hot. I provided some answers then, and I want to point out another initiative that also demonstrates that Oracle is determined not to be just another cloud vendor. In fact, they…
If you go back a decade or more, you’d find that television was the killer app for residential services and the cable companies, with their low cost to pass a prospective customer base, was in the driver’s seat. Well, things are changing. Linear TV, the RF stuff the cable company infrastructure was designed to deliver,…
Why does it seem that every market opportunity, technical trend, adoption rate, ends up graphing as a hockey stick? I’m sure you’ve been hearing stories about the 5G “slowdown” and some vendors in the space cutting jobs. Well, gosh, 5G is a wireless network evolution, a conversion from a prior standard. Like any conversion, it…
It’s always good to see stories based on real user experiences, and when MIT Technology Review, in partnership with Databricks, published a report called “The great acceleration: CIO perspectives on generative AI” I was naturally curious to see how what they found compared with my own chats with CIOs and others. I want to stress…
Sometimes, the terms we use create an impression that really isn’t justified. For example, we talk about “enterprise networks” as though they were a static model of connectivity when in fact they’ve undergone major changes over the last couple decades. And yes, there are more changes underway now, to the point where the concept of…
Figuring out what’s going on with the cloud is starting to look more complicated every day. A recent story quotes Gartner in saying that Amazon has 40% of the cloud market, beating rivals Microsoft and Google who have 21.5% and 7.7% for Google. Another story cites documents in an anti-trust case saying that Microsoft has…
Even as the popularity of AI grows, and growth enthusiasts on Wall Street whet their risk appetites on AI startups and market hopefuls, we’re getting increasingly clear warnings about the AI business case. Some are coming from Wall Street itself, some from thoughtful analysts, and even some from enterprises whose spending on AI would almost…
OK, I admit that as a long-time technologist in IT, networking, and network applications, I have a tech bias. Maybe that influences how I parse the coverage of tech in the media, but it sure seems to me that we’re spending as much or more on hyping 5G than we are fixing its problems. In…