This post first appeared in The New Stack on November 27th, 2018. Cloud computing and open source are two big movements that are reshaping and continually disrupting the way we think about the relationship between vendors and consumers. It opened... Continue reading

This article originally appeared in Opensource.com Edge computing is poised to boost the next generation of IoT technology into the mainstream. Here's how it works with the cloud to benefit business operations in all industries Cloud computing has dominated IT... Continue reading

VNF Onboarding is known to be one of the biggest challenges in the transformation to NFV transformation as noted in one of the recent SDxCentral report: VNF Migration challenges. Arguably the biggest challenge organizations will face when it comes time... Continue reading

About 20 years ago there was a big wave of networking innovation, spurred by the Internet age. It gave birth to huge networking companies like Cisco, Juniper, and Ericsson. Then, the pace of innovation just kind of stagnated. However, the... Continue reading

I’m just returning from the Kubecon Austin event and I must admit that the vibe, and the amount of innovation, around Kubernetes reminded me of the good old OpenStack events. Now that Docker Swarm seems to be dropping behind, it... Continue reading

Last quarter we launched Cloudify 4, a major milestone transforming Cloudify from a DevOps tool to a complete Application and Network Management Platform. This is highlighted by the addition of an enhanced customizable portal, based on React, with an emphasis... Continue reading

A decade ago, large-scale services were an edge-case scenario, often designed as one-off systems. Then, in the mid 2000s, the financial services industry began using algorithmic trading and automated trading systems, which required scalability under extreme low-latency in a stateful... Continue reading

In the first part of this series, we looked at the issue of cloud management silos created by multiple cloud environments and management platforms designed to serve different needs in the software delivery process, proposing a next-generation CMP as the... Continue reading

We’ve all read the reports about IT and business units becoming more tightly coupled as DevOps gains momentum. Puppet Labs’ State of DevOps report is one of the better ones, and it tells us that high-performing IT organizations deploy 200... Continue reading

This article first appeared in Wireless Week on March 13, 2017 Last month, the Linux Foundation announced the fusion of its two flagship open networking projects. Open-O (launched a year ago at Mobile World Congress by China Mobile and Huawei)... Continue reading

This article was first posted on Telecom Reseller on January 9, 2017 American poet Robert Frost began “The Road Not Taken” with “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” But when looking at the quickening pace of transformation in NFV,... Continue reading

This article was originally posted on Wireless Week on January 17, 2017. Virtualized Network Function (VNF) vendors like Versa Networks, Athonet, and Clearwater are working to re-architect their VNFs for a cloud-native world. They’re doing this because VNFs –like any... Continue reading

This post first appeared in SDxCentral on January 2, 2017. A recent SDxCentral contributed post asked, “Does NFV create vendor lock-in?” In it, author Shehzad Merchant posits that the current trajectory of network functions virtualization (NFV) is headed down a... Continue reading

This post was originally published on InfoQ.com in February 2016. The brave new world of plentiful tooling, and especially open source tooling, has driven home the realization that developers are the new decision-makers, not the man in the high castle... Continue reading

There’s no better way to start a news year than with a big customer win. In our case, it’s truly a “David vs. Goliath” win, a win that demonstrates how the market is embracing open source, underdog disruptors to take... Continue reading

There are basically three main approaches to managing applications in a cloud environment: Orchestration, PaaS (Platform as a Service) and CMP (Cloud Management Platform). The end goal of all three is fairly similar - have a fully managed application on... Continue reading

In my previous post, I discussed the differences between hybrid cloud and cloud portability, as well as how to achieve true hybrid cloud deployments without compromising on infrastructure API abstraction, by providing several use cases for cloud portability. Cloud Portability... Continue reading

Survey says, that hybrid cloud, what once was perceived as virtually mission impossible, is becoming pretty much mainstream. According to this survey, and this survey, some users are currently running on as many as 6 clouds simultaneously on average per... Continue reading

Over the past few months I’ve been involved in various forums and discussion on what the right approach should be for achieving a common orchestration modeling language. I felt that while there’s a growing consensus that TOSCA is currently best... Continue reading

The latest OpenStack user survey on application platforms reveals an interesting trend when comparing this year’s survey with last year’s. See below. 2015 2016 https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/Public-User-Survey-Report.pdf http://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April-2016-User-Survey-Report.pdf Here are some things you might have noticed: Kubernetes gained popularity 30% up (from... Continue reading

Preface The Innovator’s Dilemma faced by vendors of proprietary networking stacks is well documented. The blogsphere and the trade media have well documented the disruptive, one-two punch of open source NFV and white box hardware that threatens to undermine their... Continue reading

While this has been said many times, before, I believe that 2015 will likely be remembered as the year of the cloud, largely due to the most notable event of the year* (read: decade/century…), the whopping Dell/EMC deal, which clearly... Continue reading

The OpenStack Summits, which I have been attending twice a year for the past five years, continue to serve as the most formative and influential moments I have during the year - especially with everything related to the growth around... Continue reading