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SDN/NFV: How Virtualization Evolves This Year on the Road to 5G

Summary Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are the technologies driving next generation network transformation; but the factors impacting faster SDN/NFV adoption are the same ones slowing the road to 5G. While there are many technical challenges, it comes down to the fact that this is a paradigm shift. Running a hybrid networking environment can be challenging; communications service providers (CSPs) simply can’t afford to interrupt mission critical services inadvertently while upgrading their networks. Also, investing in network transformation takes buy-in internally and…

The Inevitability of Autonomy

I remember leaving camp with my parents on visiting day, late 70s, New Hampshire. It was hot and sticky and bright green out as we drove to from Lake Arlington to Hanover, to the Dartmouth campus and the Kiewit Computation Center. Inside was cool and crisp. White and sterile, with the hint of a hum among the rows of machines. On display was connectivity, and it was mesmerizing. A few years later, in 1982, I leveraged this family memory and asked my father for an…

Top 5 ONUG Community Member Benefits

Why Should YOU, as an IT Professional, Become an ONUG Community Member? At a recent ONUG Board meeting, members shared that vendors are offering a 40 to 70% consideration/discount on infrastructure products and services when the vendor realizes they are an ONUG Community member. I was surprised to hear this. Others were surprised to hear that they were not the only ones receiving these discounts. Also surprising is that the discounting was not just from one vendor but from multiple vendors. This prompted a pretty healthy discussion about what…

There Are No Private, Public, or Hybrid Clouds—Only Islands of Infrastructure to be Consumed

by Bruno Germain At the root of John Boyd’s “OODA loop” methodology, there is the notion that we need to acknowledge and work with levels of “uncertainty”—gaps that result when applying established models to new and changing contexts[i]. Unfortunately, the networking community—desperate for operational stability—largely ignores these mismatches, designing network and security architectures as if they can dictate how applications are deployed.

Apps are On the Move, What’s a CIO to Do?

by George McGregor  People have been on the move for a while – workspaces, applications and data are increasingly accessed from mobile devices. This has had a big impact on application delivery.  For any business these days, its all about apps and its all about the customer experience delivered by these apps. 

There is no Private or Public Cloud, only a Hybrid Cloud

by Nick Lippis ONUG offers, bar none, the best indicator of what’s real in the industry. At UBS headquarters in September of 2013, the ONUG Board met to define the major themes and narrative for ONUG Fall 2013 hosted by JPMorgan Chase. This was during the hype of OpenFlow, OpenDayLight and OpenStack. During that meeting, the ONUG Board realized that none of these projects would be game changers and that ONUG would chart a practical course that enabled the ONUG Community to embrace freedom, choice,…

How We’ll Know When the Open Infrastructure Revolution Has Arrived

by Peter Burrows It’s been four long years since VMware bought Nicira for over a billion dollars. That shocking price-tag—for a company with essentially zero revenues—sounded the starting gun for what was expected to be a rush by vendors to create new, open ways for companies to build, operate and monetize their networks. Rather than be locked into whatever the established hardware vendors happened to be selling, chief information officers would soon be able to cobble together the network of their dreams using that miraculous…

How SDNs Change Cyber Security – Part II

Software defined networks (SDNs) reimagined how companies build networks. Now SDNs will force a major change in how companies secure those networks. To better understand the security implications of SDNs, we caught up with two of the co-chairs for ONUG’s Software-Defined Security Services (SDSS) Working Group. In How SDNs Change Cyber Security – Part I last month, we were able to get Adam Forch of FedEx’s reaction. Today, in the second installment, we hear Mike’s thoughts on the challenges facing SDN security.

How Full Stack is Driving Vendor Innovation

As products have become more specialized, they are appealing to an increasingly narrow and more sophisticated customer set. Firewalls are no longer meant for IT engineers, but firewall experts. SSL requires deep knowledge of SSL certifications. Such segmentation subsequently requires specialized expertise from IT personnel and poses a multidimensional challenge for hiring managers.

CEO Corner Series: Interview with Nuage Networks CEO, Sunil Khandekar

This featured interview with Nuage Networks CEO, Sunil Khandekar, is a part of the ongoing ONUG CEO Corner Series.