Just what benefits drive or justify cloud adoption? This is a question you’d think had been asked a million times since the dawn of the cloud era, but in surveys and discussions with CIOs, I’m finding that’s not been the case. Companies had largely accepted the widely publicized view of cloud benefits until about 2016,…
One area of 5G and cloud intersection is the 5G User Plane, a component of the 5G Core architecture. My readers know of my skepticism about 5G Core deployment overall, but I’m going to set that aside for a bit to deal with how the 5G User Plane could be considered a poster child for…
There are some interesting things going on with Airship, an AT&T-promoted open-source project to deploy a virtualized hosting layer on top of bare metal. For one thing, it’s getting support from a major server vendor, Dell. For another, it’s closing a loophole in the overall vision of cloud hosting, and it’s addressing some issues that…
Are we in for tech trouble? Cisco’s quarter ended last week, and while their numbers were decent, their guidance disappointed. Enterprise orders fell, and the service provider space continues to be weak. Generally, Cisco has been a bright spot in the network and tech space, so we have to ask whether those spaces are at…
I mentioned data plane feature hosting in my last blog, noting that we needed to spend some time looking at the connection-service elements and how we’d propose to make them candidates for hosted and cloud-native implementation. I propose to start the ball rolling with this blog, and to do that we have to look at…
Cloud-native technology is important to everyone, and critical to many, but there’s already a trend toward seeing cloud-native as sweeping everything else from the tech world. I think it’s certain that every enterprise will end up adopting cloud-native applications or application components, and that at least three quarters of all applications will have cloud-native elements,…
Does VMware have a plan to transform the carrier cloud? It’s far from an idle question, especially now that IBM has acquired Red Hat. Cloud computing is transforming under the stimulus of “cloud-native” thinking and planning, and there’s no vertical market where that’s needed more than the carrier cloud space. Network operators have been locked…
Could one of our problems with a software-defined future be as simple as terminology? When I noted in my blog that terms like “network management system” or “operations support system” were implicitly monolithic, implying a traditional single-structure application, I had a lot of operators contact me to agree. Certainly, we have a long history of…
What’s happening in the cloud market? It seems (from stories in both the technology and financial press) like growth in public cloud service revenues is slowing, and some have suggested the market is nearing a plateau. The truth is more complex (as usual), because there are a number of forces acting on the same market…
Recently I had a friend ask me why some things I’d declared as failures were considered successful by the media. The obvious reason is that something that’s good for publicity is good to the media; their standard of success is different. The less obvious reason, and one just as pervasive, is what I’ll call “success…