The annuals OpenStack Summit in 2016 was held in Austin, TX, giving me plenty of opportunity to spend time with vendors and customers to see where things are heading. Interestingly, “maturity” was one of the most common themes among both groups.
Category Archives: Security
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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Everspan Changes Archiving
With the ability to store over 180PB of data in a small form factor that can last for up to 100 years, Everspan is delivering an optical archiving solution for those industries that demand a low-cost archival solution with a nearly infinite lifespan.
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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?
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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The Collision Of Open Source, Open Networking, And SDN
Open source is a driving factor in enterprise technology, and it is fueling the move to open networking and SDN. As businesses are “betting the business” on open source in cloud and enterprise platforms, networking, the last bastion of proprietary stacks, is ready to be toppled.
The Internet of (Insecure) Things
The Internet of Things is exploding, but even faster than its rate of growth is the rate of known exploits. Manufacturers have built devices with little or no regard to security best practices and this is leaving customers and consumers exposed.
SD-WAN: Driving Business Benefits
Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) is changing the technology landscape, but more importantly, SD-WAN is having a real impact on the business side of the equation. SD-WAN vendor Silver Peak is recognized for the WAN expertise and driving the clear business benefits with SD-WAN.
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Why You Should Care About NFV
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a key technology that is being championed primarily by carriers and cloud service providers. But there are functional reasons why NFV can have a large impact on every business.
Can Broadband Change the WAN?
For years, wide area networks (WANs) were based on multi protocol label switching (MPLS) technology, but MPLS is very expensive and less flexible. A new generation of software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) products are adding broadband to create hybrid WANs. Silver Peak is one of the leaders in this space.
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