More and more of the networking that is done in the datacenter is performed on software-defined networking whiteboxes rather than on proprietary black box machinery that was controlled by one supplier. …
People have been talking about software defined networking and its related network function virtualization for so long that it must appear to many organizations that everyone else is doing it. …
It is safe to say that companies that have traditionally built server, storage, and switch hardware have had a tough time finding their place in a world that is increasingly allergic to appliances and wants everything to come as software that customers have more control over. …
It’s a familiar story arc for open source efforts started by vendors or vendor-led industry consortiums. …
If the profit margins are under pressure among the switch and router makers of the world, their chief financial officers can probably place a lot of the blame on Nick McKeown and his several partners throughout the years. …
Open source software has done a lot to transform the IT industry, but perhaps more than anything else it has reminded those who architect complex systems that all elements of a datacenter have to be equally open and programmable for them to make the customizations that are necessary to run specific workloads efficiently and therefore cost effectively. …
The recent OpenStack Tokyo event offered a view of the growth and maturation of this vital open source cloud technology. …
It has been almost six years since the founders of Big Switch Networks started sitting in the research group meetings at Stanford University, which served as the birthplace for software-defined networking, and times have certainly changed. …
Everything seems to be easier for the hyperscalers than it is for large enterprises, but it is just an illusion created by the confluence of some of the best minds in IT with a whole lot of money. …
Software defined networking means different things to a lot of people, and the strictest meaning and most open (in terms of open source) variant of SDN will not necessarily – or easily – vanquish quasi-proprietary variants of SDN from the datacenter. …
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