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…
Oracle, certainly no shrinking violet in marketing/sales practices and clearly a software leader, reported a quarter with light earnings and qualified guidance. The news hasn’t broken through the euphoria of a no-taper-yet stance from the Fed, but it should be a warning that we really do have issues with IT spending. What makes Oracle’s story…
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…
Juniper continued to develop its Contrail/SDN strategy, with an announcement it was open-sourcing a version of its Contrail SDN controller, which is also available via a traditional commercial-support license. The move says a lot about the SDN space, and it also may give a hint as to how Juniper might (emphasis is important here) exploit…
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…
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…
Out with the old, in with the new. Sounds like New Year’s Day, and so clearly inappropriate to the season in a calendar sense. It also works with networking, though, and we have a couple of the OWTOIWTN items in news today. First, financial sources are saying today that Juniper is dropping MobileNext, its architecture…
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”…