Since its inception, software-defined networking (SDN) has primarily been viewed as a tool, driven in part by its fast acceptance through web-scale datacenters. But in reality there is an opportunity outside of the datacenter for SDN.
Category Archives: SD-WAN
Open Networking Leads Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation is on the minds of every CIO, but to achieve the agility that strategy can bring, companies need to address their networking. Open networking is the best change a business has for addressing the fluid, agile environment that a digital transformation will require.
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Software Is Eating The Network, Through SDNO
Marc Andressen said that “software will eat the world, but the change is not just in applications. Software also has the ability to consume the traditional network, and orchestration is the accelerator that can make this happen.
Software-Defined Network Orchestration Arrives
Software-defined networking (SDN) is taking off, but the flexibility it brings only proves the point that if a business does not have flexible orchestration, the acceleration from SDN is hindered. Glue Networks delivers software-defined orchestration (SDO) to help ensure agility for today’s networks.
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Apstra’s AOS: Distributed Network OS
After years of CLI-driven networking, businesses are being held back by their networking as it focuses on the technical aspects and not the business aspects. Apstra is a pioneer, one of the first to form the idea of intent-based networking that approaches the issue of configuration and validation from the business perspective.
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Spring 2016 ONUG Meeting Highlights
A summary of the Spring 2106 meeting of the Open Networking User Group where leading customers have an opportunity to provide candid and concise input to the vendors who are creating products in the open networking space.
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Open Networking Continues Momentum
The customer demand for open networking continues to grow as customers tire of being tied into proprietary networking stacks that don’t match the dynamic needs of their current environments. Dell’s fully open networking portfolio is helping drive this momentum.
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Will Software-Defined WAN Vendors Consolidate Or Be Consumed?
With all of the focus on software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) the market is primed for change. Will companies break out as leaders or will the entrenched leaders go on a spending spree to buy into this hot market?
2016 Predictions for Datacenter Networking
True to form, every year needs to have a set of predictions about what will happen, followed by either a glowing review of personal insight or a host of reasons why things did not pan out as anticipated.
Fall 2015 ONUG Meeting Highlights
The Fall 2015 meeting of the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) gave customers a chance to hone their use cases and deliver the candid, critical feedback to vendors who are working on open networking products.
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