Light Reading did an interesting article asking for “a little less conversation, a little more action” on cloud-native VNFs. I agree with a lot of what the piece says, particularly about the fact that the market and technology aren’t really ready for cloud-native VNFs, and that the Linux Foundation is eager to try to close…
Is gaming a driver for networking? I’ve been seeing articles that link multiplayer online gaming with edge computing, gigabit Internet service, augmented reality, and a bunch of other things that people are really interested in. The question is whether the interest would be enough to actually drive incremental networking opportunity, and from that drive infrastructure…
What happens if the food chain breaks? Anyone who’s studied biology knows that life is a complex ecosystem arranged in a kind of pyramid, where the stuff at the bottom is eaten by the next layer up, and so forth. Disruptions in the food chain lead to imbalances in the ecosystem; look at the relationship…
Perhaps the most important rivalry in IT is the one between Red Hat and VMware. If the future is the hybrid cloud (which it is), and if realization of that future involves the creation of a unified hybrid-cloud platform for development and deployment (which it does), then these are the players who could provide it. …
Having commented negatively on research reports in my last blog, I want to try to overcome their specific issues and summarize, based on real data, the likely market trends for 2020. Wall Street and (to a lesser and less timely way) government research provides some numbers I can push through my model to see if…
Why is it so difficult to find accurate predictions on, or even current statistics on, technology evolution? One of the biggest complaints that CIOs presented me with in the last two months is that they don’t get as much useful planning information as they need, and most think they get less of it than they…
One Street research firm has done a particularly good job wading through the hype in tech to come up with some insights into 2020, and I think they’re worth exploring. Rather than repeat their themes, let me group them into what I think are major trends. The first theme is that infrastructure-building will lag service-building. …
What kind of IP do we need? Overall, the Internet is created by what we could call “evolutionary IP”, a product of decades of changes and refinements through the well-known “request for comment” or RFC process. Many of these changes were once considered promising and have now been abandoned. At the same time, we’re in…
The first full week of January is a traditional time for the Street to be looking at IT spending for the coming year, and this year is no exception. We have predictions and analysis for networking, data centers, cloud computing, and pretty much everything else. I also had an unusual number of CIOs contact me…
I saw something recently in Fierce Telecom, with the tag line that if NFV was training wheels, then cloud-native was the real deal. It’s heartening in one sense that we’re facing the fact that NFV is behind the times, perhaps hopelessly so, but it’s an oversimplification to say that “cloud-native” is the future of NFV. …