In the 1972 film Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask), Woody Allen offered his take on seven questions that included sheep, Woolite, and some of Gene Wilder’s best-ever work. There is no sex (or humor) involved in the just-completed four-part series on the software-defined data center by Torsten [...]
SDN, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Software-Defined Everything
Apr 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As someone who actually practiced atomic bomb drills at public school — “bend over, put your head between your knees and kiss your @$$ goodbye” — ‘Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb‘ was not only a rollicking good black comedy, but a very alarming and cautionary tale. I’m [...]
SDN Riding The Wave Of A “Perfect Storm”
Jan 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Software-defined networking (SDN) is still making its way up the charts to Gartner Hype Cycle’s Peak of Inflated Expectation, before it is expected to free-fall to the Trough of Disillusionment and then climb back up through the Slope of Enlightenment and eventually hit the Plateau of Productivity. Or, as IDC has just reported, SDN is [...]
13 Predictions For 2013
Jan 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Over the course of my thirty-plus years writing about IT I have been bombarded by pundits’ predictions of what’s coming next, and even –- abject apologies to IBM, AT&T, and Apple –- made my own share of fearless forecasts. While the following 13 items represent only a small fraction of the predictions that passed through [...]
Will SDN + SDS + SDDC = SDC?
Oct 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
As I go round the event circuit, there is always the buzz around the latest topic de jour. Vendors love something new – it gives them a relatively blank sheet to start a new marketing campaign against, and a chance to try and take the high ground against the competition. The obvious ones over the [...]
The Software-Defined Data Center
Sep 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
VMware hosted its US-based user conference in San Francisco last week. Entitled VMworld, the conference had roughly 20,000 attendees and over 280 vendors set up booths in the exhibit hall, making it one of the largest vendor conferences in the IT industry. In addition to its sheer scale, the conference was interesting both in terms [...]
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