SDN

January 16, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Data Driven Platforms to Support IoT, SDN, and Cloud

3 min read

More and more enterprises are managing distributed infrastructures and applications that need to share data. This data sharing can be viewed as data flows that connect (and flow through) multiple applications. Applications are partly managed on-premise, and partly in (multiple) off-premise clouds. Cloud infrastructures need to elastically scale over multiple data centers and software defined […]

December 23, 2013

DATA CENTER

SDN Adoption Challenges: My Wrap Up For 2013

3 min read

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...

December 19, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Year Ahead in Networking

3 min read

Throughout 2013, I’ve had the opportunity to meet with services provider leaders from around the globe.  Whether they are large or small, focused on consumer services or business, or engaged in video or mobility, their ambitions are very much in line with our strategy:  To help them monetize and optimize their networks, while accelerating their […]

December 6, 2013

DATA CENTER

SDN Reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference – Part 1

4 min read

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...

November 21, 2013

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

A Software Aware Society Driven by Sensors, Analytics and APIs

1 min read

“Software is Eating the World” is a quote attributed to Marc Andreessen and somewhat further explored by his business partner Ben Horowitz.  Mark Andreessen gives compelling reasons to validate this quote.  To some extend I have to agree with some of his reasons (but I am also a little bit biased as a software engineer). On […]

November 21, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

A Software Aware Society Driven by Sensors, Analytics and APIs

4 min read

“Software is Eating the World” is a quote attributed to Marc Andreessen and somewhat further explored by his business partner Ben Horowitz.  Mark Andreessen gives compelling reasons to validate this quote.  To some extend I have to agree with some of his reasons (but I am also a little bit biased as a software engineer). On […]