SDN Adoption Challenges: My Wrap Up For 2013
2013 was the year I started working on SDN – specifically in the area of devising professional services for Cisco ONE and Application Centric Infrastructure, ACI. A few…
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Use SDN Strategically – and NOT as a “Band Aid”
The other week I attended the “Software Defined Networking 2013” conference in London. This is a UK-based event for…
SDN Reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference – Part 2
Last week I started my SDN reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference, and I found I had quite a lot to discuss. Last week I covered: Do we need SDN? SDN and the Gartner Hype Cycle SDN Deployment Models So here is the concluding part. This week I’ll cover: Overlay-Based SDN — and the […]
SDN Reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference – Part 1
Last week I was in London for the Gartner Data Center Conference. As always there was a wide range of interesting topics being discussed, all very useful. Working in Cisco…
SDN: Cisco Domain Ten tells us it’s not (just) about the Network
In my first SDN blog, I asserted that “Services” – that is technical support, professional and consultancy services – are the missing “S” in the SDN debate. I’d…
August 2013 #SecureDC Twitter Chat Recap: SDN Security
Our first SecureDC twitter chat created some great industry dialog around security for Software Defined Networks (SDN) as well as using SDN to improve security. SDN is going through a similar hype cycle as seen with cloud and we feel that it’s important to focus more on education now and broader collaboration, so that users […]
Industrial Grade SDN
The software defined network has become all the rage lately for reasons that seem to vary and are caught up in interesting perceptions. One view was that it allowed a single network to be controlled centrally and divided up logically to prevent different groups from interfering with one another, well that’s true. Another view is […]
#EngineersUnplugged S3|Ep9: The Underlay Network (SDN w/PacketPushers)
Welcome back loyal viewers–this is an episode not to be missed. Engineers Unplugged is thrilled to welcome the Packet Pushers (@packetpushers), aka Greg Ferro (@etherealmind) and Ethan Banks (@ecbanks), as they discuss the underlay network. Yes, they’re showing us the underside and future of software defined networking. Watch and see: Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, where […]
Join @SecDatacenter and Top Industry Experts for #SecureDC Chat on SDN Security, 8/27 at 11am PT
Many network administrators over the years have viewed information security technologies as somewhat of a necessary evil, as opposed to a necessity. Security costs like the purchase and maintenance of firewalls, web filtering, anti-malware scanning, and encryption are seen as an additional burden as well as and excuse to spike spending plans. However, while security […]