SDN

February 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

Three light beams that emanated from OpenDaylight Summit

5 min read

Earlier this month, I attended the first ever summit on OpenDaylight (ODL) project in Santa Clara, CA. This near sold out event was largely successful by many standards. It brought together a large number of great minds to the table to solve some of the toughest challenges the networking industry is facing around Software-defined Networking […]

February 17, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Network Programmability Is Real: Five Use Cases for Our Disaster Recovery Cloud Services

3 min read

SunGard AS has more than 9000 enterprise customers who count on our cloud services and managed services when disaster strikes. Lately, we’ve seen that the “Internet of Everything” is changing customer expectations. Our customers want new types of cloud services—and they want them sooner. They’re also asking to provision and control the services on their […]

February 14, 2014

DATA CENTER

Get Started on SDN and Cisco ONE: Learn from Our New Technical White Paper

5 min read

If you were to believe the industry press, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that many companies across the world were rolling software defined networking (SDN) technologies into their...

February 12, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Marching towards Cloud CDN

2 min read

Why should you put a virtualized content delivery network (CDN) in the cloud? This is not just a theoretical question. It has come from our customers. At our recent Cisco Live event in Milan, we demonstrated how our continued CDN technical leadership can answer this question. First, some history, as you can’t just begin with […]

February 10, 2014

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

CiscoLive Milan Highlights: IoE, SDN and a lot of wine

4 min read

Aside from an ill-timed Milanese taxi strike and a lot of rain and snow, the first CiscoLive of 2014 was a fascinating week. Cisco EVP Rob Lloyd announced our latest Cisco ONE capabilities with a new APIC Enterprise module and the new Inter Cloud capability for moving workload (virtual machines) between private and public clouds. […]

February 9, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

Open Daylight Shines in Impressive Debut

1 min read

First Open Daylight Summit took place exactly one year since we’ve started the project, to the day! Ah, those memories of having to stay quietly patient, from our first meeting, February 4th, 2013, and longer… in hindsight, talking about it after the code actually started to flow was more appropriate, the 2013 Spring Equinox, as it should. The Open […]

February 4, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

OpenDaylight Unleashes Hydrogen to the Masses

4 min read

The OpenDaylight Project today announced that its first open source software release Hydrogen is now available for download. As the first simultaneous code release cross-community it has contributions across fifty organizations and includes over one million lines of code. Yes. ODL > 1MLOC. For those of you interested that’s approximately two hundred and thirty man-years of […]

January 29, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: Cisco is bringing together networking and programming

1 min read

With the announcements on NX-OS APIs, Application Centric infrastructure APIs, python scripting support, SDN, open source projects OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and Puppet, I have opened an account at codecademy.com...

January 28, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

New Year, New Challenges, New Successes: SDN Bringing Agility, Security and TCO to Campus and Branch Networks

4 min read

Before recently taking on a new role as Cisco’s vice president and general manager of Software-Defined Network (SDN) with the enterprise networking group, I served as the vice president and...