John Fruehe

Software-Defined Networking: Not Just For Datacenters Anymore

By / Datacenter, Enterprise Networking / November 7, 2016

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization have promised to revolutionize the datacenter. SDN breaks the tight connection between the forwarding plane (moving data from point A to point B) and the control plane (the rules that dictate how applications and users access data), while NFV virtualizes those hard-coded functions that used to be delivered …

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The ‘Hybrid Cloud’ Dilemma

By / Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Hybrid cloud / October 24, 2016

“Hybrid cloud” is one of the hottest terms in technology today. All vendors have a hybrid cloud strategy, but like potato salad recipes, no two are alike. Cisco Systems, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Oracle, VMware and others all have different takes on hybrid cloud, and this presents a challenge, especially in multi-cloud/multi-vendor environments, because few standards exist. …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Open Networking Leads Digital Transformation

By / Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Research, Research Papers, Virtualization / May 1, 2020

Companies see digital transformation as a way to help them accelerate their business by leveraging mobility, the Internet of Things (IoT), big data analytics, and social media to drive better insight and speed decision making. But before they can transform their businesses, they need to transform  their network first, because traditional network architectures hamper digital transformation instead of propelling …

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RESEARCH PAPER: IoT Analytics at the Edge

By / Human Internet of Things (HIoT), Industrial IoT (IIoT), Internet of Things IoT, Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

To accelerate business, companies are turning to analytics to help transform data into insight. With so many systems and products now digitally instrumented and providing an endless stream of telemetry, data analytics can help companies glean insight in real-time regarding how their systems are operating. However, to take advantage of these data streams, businesses need to perform analytics …

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RESEARCH PAPER: OpenStack Network Maturity

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Hybrid cloud, Private cloud, Public cloud, Research, Research Papers, Server / May 1, 2020

The maturity of OpenStack is accelerating the move to cloud technology, enabling businesses to stand up their own private clouds as well as allowing telecom and cloud service providers (CSPs) to expand their public cloud offerings more easily. While networking was often cited as an OpenStack inhibitor in the past, we increasingly see improvements and alternatives that are …

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Wal-Mart Proves Open Source Is Big Business

By / Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter / August 15, 2016

Open source, in the form of both software and hardware is big business—really big business. This past week, Wal-Mart Stores, one of the largest retailers in the world proved it once again when they announced that they would make their application lifecycle management tool OneOps available as an open source project. Why give away something that …

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