And it just gets better, SDN-wise, I say with considerable irony. Cisco did a virtual-data-center network deal yesterday (vCider) and of course everyone is out there saying that it’s going to help Cisco with its SDN approach, perhaps to be integrated in Cisco switches! Even for a market that’s been more nonsense than substance, this…
Gartner has published a report that’s very critical of OpenStack, and there’s been some sharp push-back from the vendors involved. It would be tempting to say that the truth is between the poles of the discussion, but I think the truth may be orthogonal to both positions, somewhere out there in the aether where it’s…
Well, it seems like the SDN action never ends. We have two stories today; the SDN strategy that sort-of-was, and the SDN strategy that probably isn’t. Let’s start with the “isn’t’. Cisco announced some optical enhancements to its CRS line, and what’s interesting about them is that they are aimed at an area where SDN…
Juniper’s MX has been one of its most successful products, and it’s not surprising that the company wants to build on that success. On Tuesday they announced a series of enhancements to the MX “Universal Edge”, all designed to host service intelligence close to the network edge. That’s a worthy goal, and in my view…
Juniper’s MX has been one of its most successful products, and it’s not surprising that the company wants to build on that success. On Tuesday they announced a series of enhancements to the MX “Universal Edge”, all designed to host service intelligence close to the network edge. That’s a worthy goal, and in my view…
The EC has released a policy paper on cloud computing, and the thrust is that the cloud can be a major benefit to Europe, a view reflected in the paper’s “Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe” title. I’d guess you wouldn’t be surprised to know that there are aspects of the document that…
Juniper did an SDN virtual event yesterday whose title intrigued me; “The Path to SDN”. Since Juniper is one of the vendors whose SDN strategy hasn’t yet been articulated, I decided to attend the event to see if I could get a clue. In a lot of ways, the event ended up mirroring Juniper’s positioning…
Despite all of the recent interest in cloud computing, the darling of network operator monetization in dollar terms is still content. In addition, content represents the largest risk to the operators, particularly to the cable MSOs who provide more than half the Internet service in the US. OTT video is both a target of opportunity…
John Chambers has been an icon in networking for decades, but at the same time the Street (and everyone else who can count years) realizes that at some point there will have to be a new Cisco CEO. Just who that might be and when it might happen has been, at times, a major distraction…
Red Hat announced its numbers, and as one Street report said, “the streak is broken”. The company was light on revenue and net income, considerably below both the average of its performance over time and its prior year. The result was that the Street has bumped them after hours, but the Street’s judgment may in…