Mike Cohen

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Network scale, complexity and new security threat vectors have grown to a point where we need to rethink how networks work, and beyond that, how networks and applications interact.

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In a few weeks thousands of IT leaders, telco operators, cloud administrators, app developers and OpenStack contributors will arrive in Austin, Texas for the OpenStack Summit. As you may know, Austin was the location of the very first OpenStack Summit six years ago and it will be exciting for everyone present to see just how far […]

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Written by Shane Corban and Mike Cohen Today, SDN is being embraced by many companies to increase operational speed and efficiency of network management, and Cisco ACI is rapidly becoming the SDN solution of choice. A key part of Cisco’s SDN work is collaborations and integration with a diverse group of industry leaders and innovators. […]

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Over the past 18 months, we’ve been witnessing a rapid transformation in the way applications are built, packaged, shipped, deployed, and instantiated.  This change has been driven by developer demands for simplicity and a shift in focus towards an application-centric view of IT.     To find evidence of this trend, look no further than the skyrocketing […]

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This is an exciting time in the history of datacenter infrastructure.  We are witnessing the collision of two major trends: the maturation of open source software and the redefinition of...

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The Software-Defined Networking market is by all accounts still in its nascent stages – its scale and scope has shifted drastically as everything in the datacenter races to become “software-defined”.  As we ramp up 2014, its time to step out on a limb to make some predictions about what we’ll see over the course of […]