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.
Tag Archives: Convergence
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.
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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IoT, Mobility, And SDN Are Changing Your Network, Are You Ready?
There is plenty afoot in the datacenter that is impacting networks, but the drive for new network technologies will not come from hardware or even networking software. True change will be driven by the applications that need a different network to support massive data needs.
Cisco And Apple: Not-So-Strange Bedfellows?
While most consider Cisco Systems and Apple to be at different ends of the technology spectrum, their relationship as endpoint and network controllers is deepening with announcements that tie the two together.
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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Spring 2015 ONUG Meeting Highlights
A summary of the various meetings and discussions from the Spring 2105 meeting of the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) where user needs flow into use cases that are shared with vendors who are delivering open networking products.
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Bringing Dev Ops to WAN Orchestration
The movement to dev ops was primarily focused on application development but Glue Networks brings the concepts of dev ops to WAN (and network orchestration) through their latest Glueware release.
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HP’s Vision for Tomorrow’s IT
HP has a vision for the future of the data center and that vision centers around the concept of Compute. Compute will drive everything, but most importantly Compute is flexible and can scale with business needs.
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