Developer Originated SDN?
How would you handle a situation when a developer can open up a point-to-point tunnel between their Kubernetes hosted application and node on the internet inclusive to a public cloud resource? OpenFaaS project founder Alex Ellis created such an application …
Why Consider a Managed Service Provider of SD-WAN
Velocloud by VMware sponsored a recent CTO Advisor podcast with Hughes, yeah, the satellite provider. The podcast focused on the relationship with Hughes and the value that Hughes brings to enterprises that are looking for managed SD-WAN providers. However, …
The Campus and Cloud-First
How does a cloud-first strategy impact your campus network design and operations?
I’m currently helping a client migrate their campus networks to a new platform. As a Saleforce.com solution provider, they are all in on the public cloud. All collaboration …
Unifying Internet Carriers
As companies begin to consolidate services into Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings vs. running data centers, campus connectivity becomes a more significant focus. In traditional architectures, enterprises may have both a private circuit and an internet VPN connecting the …
Is it time for virtual switch abstraction to fade?
There’s an inflection point when a new concept just clicks. It happened to me when I was designing a cloud-based infrastructure for a file transfer application. My initial concepts were within the constraints of the traditional data center. In the …
Network as a Service provider TeloIP #NFD15
Are all Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solutions alike? With over 40 vendors in this space, I’d say that it’s likely not. Talking with The PacketPushers’ Greg Ferro on Twitter, he believes that many of these vendors will survive. While the …