Some vendors are starting to leverage a truly open architecture for optimization of unified fabrics with extensible service control applications.One of the great opportunities in software-defined networking is to amplify the efficiency of network and...

...and how reflecting on this can help navigate the path ahead in realizing the promise of the new software-defined modelA number of parallels exist between the nascent forms of software-defined networking (SDN) we are working with today and the earl...

Disaggregated, modular, mix and match, open, these are the sound bites of the emerging white box and open software ecosystems. Will they define the architectural thinking used throughout our information-driven world moving forward?From the Open Compu...

Some vendors are starting to leverage a truly open architecture for optimization of unified fabrics with extensible service control applications.One of the great opportunities in software-defined networking is to amplify the efficiency of network and...

As the world gets driven more and more by cloud-based services, what do tomorrow’s operations jobs look like? A decade and more ago ops managers were blue chip contractors, assembling custom-tuned components into environments a well-known set of visi...