Martin Casado on Changing Networking

Contents 1 The Future of Networking is Right Here, Very Soon 2 The VMware of Networking is now VMware 3 Making Networking Agile and Automated 4 Final thoughts The Future of Networking is Right Here, Very Soon Over the last two years, the biggest buzz among the smartest networking people that I know has been […]

Networking Revolution: Software Defined Networking and Network Virtualization

Ethernet is the plumbing that runs every data center and connects every company to the Internet. Changes in the networking world take a lot of time; even the relatively mundane adoption of the next speed bump takes over a decade to make its way through standards and customer adoption. As companies deal with the impact of increasing growth paired with shrinking budgets, IT staffs require automated infrastructure that can simplify operations. The buzz in the networking community is about new models of architecture ranging from Ethernet Fabrics to Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Virtualization. As networking has been dominated by Cisco for so long, the question of the day is: Are these new technologies disruptive, and do customers have a strong enough desire to adopt these technologies that they will move to a new vendor to get them?