OpenFlow and SDN in 2012 – A Look Back
Before starting to discuss where 2013 will take us with SDN, I’d like to recap some of the significant SDN events for 2012. Below is a breakdown of the major events in chronological order.
read moreWhat VMware’s Acquisition of Nicira Tells Us About OpenFlow
It’s been hard to ignore all the talk around the datacenter industry since July 23rd when VMware announced their definitive agreement to acquire Nicira. Oracle followed VMware, recently announcing that it will acquire Xsigo. Overall, it seems like there are tectonic moves in the datacenter space – big vendors are stacking up. With these different acquisitions, VMware seems to be aiming at becoming the do-all virtualization software platform, and Oracle seems to be closing all the gaps in their product portfolio to offer a complete, business application optimized data center platform. Top that with the Cisco UCS idea (not new), adding Compute to their portfolio, which seems to be succeeding but still a major move in the way people buy datacenters, it truly shows how things are different than the way they used to be when HP and IBM were fighting head-to-head.
read moreGet Ready for “Network Apps”
I just got back from the 2nd Open Networking Summit (ONS) that took place in Santa Clara. This event was three times bigger than the one held on October last year. Networking innovation was once again the focus of the discussions and demonstrations and it was interesting to see a few examples of production network environments that have fully adopted the SDN (Software Defined Networking) approach and implemented OpenFlow. For example, Google showed that most of its production network is OpenFlow enabled – there’s no better “Proof of Concept” than that.
read moreBringing Networking Out of the Stone Age – Insights from the Stanford Open Networking Summit
I recently returned from the Open Networking Summit (ONS), which took place at Stanford University on October 17-19th. It’s clear from the conference that the networking industry is on the verge of a major transition. And leading that change is OpenFlow (or as it has come to be defined in the industry: SDN – Software Defined Networks), which was the star of the summit.
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