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On Network Engineers and Industry Eccentrics
On Network Engineers Alan Cohen, former marketing VP at Nicira Networks (until just after it was acquired by VMware), wrote an engrossing piece on the rise and fall of “human IT middleware.” His artic… more →
Twilight in the Valley of the Nerds
On Network Engineers and Industry Eccentrics
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wrote 6 months ago: On Network Engineers Alan Cohen, former marketing VP at Nicira Networks (until just after it was acq … more →
Big Switch Emphasizes Ecosystem, Channel
wrote 6 months ago: Big Switch Networks made the news very early today — one article was posted precisely at midni … more →
Between What Is and What Will Be
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wrote 8 months ago: I have refrained from writing about recent developments in software-defined networking (SDN) and in … more →
Network-Virtualization Startup PLUMgrid Announces Funding, Reveals Little
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wrote 9 months ago: Admit it, you thought I’d lost interest in software-defined networking (SDN), didn’t you? But you kn … more →
Xsigo: Hardware Play for Oracle, Not SDN
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wrote 9 months ago: When I wrote about Xsigo earlier this year, I noted that many saw Oracle as a potential acquirer of … more →
Some Thoughts on VMware's Strategic Acquisition of Nicira
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wrote 10 months ago: If you were a regular or occasional reader of Nicira Networks CTO Martin Casado’s blog, Network Here … more →
Debate Over Openness of Open vSwitch
wrote 10 months ago: Late last week, the illustrious Ivan Pepelnjak pointed me to a post by Matthew Palmer at SDN Central … more →
SDN Focus Turns to Infrastructure
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wrote 10 months ago: At this year’s SIGCOMM conference in Helsinki, Finland, a workshop called Hot Topics in Software-Def … more →
Addressing SDN Burnout
wrote 11 months ago: In the universe of staccato text bursts that is Twitter, I have diagnosed a recent exhaustion of int … more →
On Structure's 5th birthday, some video highlights to watch
wrote 11 months ago: In late 2007, in a conversation with my colleagues I pointed out that over the next decade or so, th … more →
Putting an ONF Conspiracy Theory to Rest
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wrote 11 months ago: We know that the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is controlled by the six major service providers t … more →
SDN Controller Ecosystems Critical to Market Success
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wrote 11 months ago: Software-defined networking (SDN) is a relatively new phenomenon. Consequently, analogies to precedi … more →
Cisco Not Going Anywhere, but Changes Coming to Networking
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wrote 1 year ago: Initially, I intended not to comment on the Wired article on Nicira Networks. While it contained som … more →
Nicira Focuses on Value of NVP Deployments, Avoids Fetishization of OpenFlow
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wrote 1 year ago: The continuing evolution of Nicira Networks has been intriguing to watch. At one point, not so long … more →
Debating SDN, OpenFlow, and Cisco as a Software Company
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wrote 1 year ago: Greg Ferro writes exceptionally well, is technologically knowledgeable, provides incisive commentary … more →
Still Early Days in SDN Ecosystem
wrote 1 year ago: Jason Edelman has provided a helpful overview of the software-defined networking (SDN) ecosystem and … more →
Cisco's Latest Spin-In Reportedly Poaching Aggressively (And Not At Cisco This Time)
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wrote 1 year ago: Insieme (everybody keeps calling it “Insiemi,” but I have been told that the correct spe … more →
Further Thoughts on Cisco's Latest Spin-In Venture
wrote 1 year ago: This is a follow-up post to my last missive regarding Cisco’s latest reported spin-in venture, Insie … more →
What Cisco's SDN Spin-In Move Tells Us
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wrote 1 year ago: Many of you have followed a series of posts I’ve written on rumblings that Cisco’s renowned engineer … more →
