10% off + FREE Consulting – FINAL DAYS! Company Updates

10% off + FREE Consulting – FINAL DAYS!

Final days to claim our Birthday Special! Incase you missed it, on the 9th of the 9th 2019, we turned 10! So until the 10th…

Jessica Field10/03/2019

One Man’s Crush on Technology: OpenKilda Thoughts

One Man’s Crush on Technology: OpenKilda

For good or bad, Technologists can be pretty passionate people. I mean, how many other professionals would happily describe an inanimate object, or worse, a virtual concept…

Aptira18/01/2019

Software is Eating the Network. Part 4 – Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) Thoughts

Software is Eating the Network. Part 4 – Network Function Virtualisation (NFV)

Continuing our analysis of the Open Network Software domain, this post is about Network Function Virtualisation (NFV).  In Open Networking, the network is no longer just a pipe but…

Aptira20/12/2018

Software is Eating the Network. Part 3 – Software Defined Networking (SDN) Thoughts

Software is Eating the Network. Part 3 – Software Defined Networking (SDN)

In this and the next post, we’ll be covering the last two components of the Open Networking Open Network Software domain. This post is about Software Defined Networking, and the…

Aptira12/12/2018

Software is Eating the Network. Part 2 – Open Source Software Thoughts

Software is Eating the Network. Part 2 – Open Source Software

If we accept that Software is Eating the Network, then we accept that understanding and managing software within an Open Networking solution is critical to successful implementation. We…

Aptira07/12/2018

Software is Eating the Network. Part 1 – A Global Trend Thoughts

Software is Eating the Network. Part 1 – A Global Trend

In the second post of this series we divided the broad scope of Open Networking into three convenient “domains”: Infrastructure, Software and Integration.  We have now…

Aptira30/11/2018

A Day in the Life of OpenKilda: Jon Vestal, Telstra Technical Documentation

A Day in the Life of OpenKilda: Jon Vestal, Telstra

What is OpenKilda? Telstra's VP of Product Architecture, Jon Vestal, discussed this in the Automation Forum at Layer123's SDN NFV World Congress 2018 in Den…

Aptira15/11/2018

Decoupling Path Computation Engine (PCE) and Switch Control Functions Technical Documentation

Decoupling Path Computation Engine (PCE) and Switch Control Functions

Allowing Path Computation Engine (PCE) scalability without impact to the switch control plane. As we saw in parts 1 and 2 of this series, large scale…

Aptira08/11/2018

SDN: Repave vs Update in an SD-WAN Environment Technical Documentation

SDN: Repave vs Update in an SD-WAN Environment

Critical Differences Between Deploying SD-LAN and SD-WAN in the SDN World As we saw in part 1 of this series, there are challenges with country-scale SD-WANs in addition to those faced…

Aptira11/10/2018

OpenKilda – Distributed is the Future Technical Documentation

OpenKilda – Distributed is the Future

OpenKilda: An Open-Source OpenFlow Controller In a world where most scalable technologies have learned through hard experience that distributing functionality and data processing is the…

Aptira07/10/2018

The Network is the Computer. Part 4 – The Promise is Fulfilled Thoughts

The Network is the Computer. Part 4 – The Promise is Fulfilled

In the previous three articles of this series called The Network is the Computer – Parts 1, 2 and 3 we’ve been examining the evolution of the components of Open Networking, in what I…

Aptira15/09/2018

The Network is the Computer. Part 3 – Cloud Computing is Born Thoughts

The Network is the Computer. Part 3 – Cloud Computing is Born

We saw at the end of the last post that the concept of cloud computing emerged in the late 90’s. However, to bring the Cloud into viable existence still…

Aptira30/08/2018

The Network is the Computer. Part 2 – Creating the Enablers of Cloud Computing Thoughts

The Network is the Computer. Part 2 – Creating the Enablers of Cloud Computing

We saw in our last post a massive explosion of computing capabilities during the 1980’s that was not matched by networking capabilities, leading to sub-optimal, fragmented, and support intensive solutions.  The grand vision of highly integrated…

Aptira27/07/2018

The Network is the Computer. Part 1 – Foundations: The Unfulfilled Promise Thoughts

The Network is the Computer. Part 1 – Foundations: The Unfulfilled Promise

As we saw in parts 1 & 2 of this series, Open Networking has a large footprint covering different components of technologies, skills and practices. To help you understand that footprint we’re starting a series…

Aptira19/07/2018

Selection Criteria for Adopting Open Source Projects Thoughts

Selection Criteria for Adopting Open Source Projects

I wrote recently about how to select a partner when deploying Open Source projects within an enterprise -- basically you want someone who is engaged…

Tom Fifield12/07/2018

What is Open Networking? Part 2 – The Three Domains of Open Networking Thoughts

What is Open Networking? Part 2 – The Three Domains of Open Networking

In our first post in this series on Open Networking “What is Open Networking?”, we outlined a set of nine (9) key areas that Aptira views are essential paradigms, technologies, or practices that we must employ for the realisation…

Aptira05/07/2018

What is Open Networking? Part 1 – The Big Picture Thoughts

What is Open Networking? Part 1 – The Big Picture

Ask someone, or search, for a definition of Open Networking and you’ll get a variety of answers.  It’s one of those “obvious” terms that everyone understands; but…

Aptira18/05/2018

SUSE Expert Days Company Updates

SUSE Expert Days

We recently teamed up with our good friends at SUSE to build a very high-performing and scalable storage landscape at a fraction of the cost…

Jessica Field21/03/2018

Open Networking Summit: Aptira Solutionauts head to LA Company Updates

Open Networking Summit: Aptira Solutionauts head to LA

Open Networking Summit North America The Open Networking Summit (ONS) is taking place at the Intercontinental Los Angeles Downtown from the 26th to 29th of March, and some…

Jessica Field17/03/2018

Swinburne University of Technology Case Studies

Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne University of Technology is a public university based in Melbourne, Australia. Swinburne fosters close ties with industry, business and governmental organisations to help ensure…

Aptira16/03/2018

New Solutionaut Troops: Welcome Prashant, Shane and Adam to the Aptira Army. Company Updates

New Solutionaut Troops: Welcome Prashant, Shane and Adam to the Aptira Army.

The Aptira Army of Solutionauts continues to expand with 3 new Solutionaut troops joining the Aptira Army, and more on the way! Prashant joins Aptira…

Jessica Field16/03/2018

Aptira joins the Linux Foundation Networking Project Company Updates

Aptira joins the Linux Foundation Networking Project

The big news today is that the Linux Foundation has launched its Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) project that brings together several of its network-oriented projects like ONAP, ODL and OPNFV into one governance unit. This increases efficiency, fosters project synergies, accelerates adoption and dramatically increases the level…

Tristan23/01/2018

SUSE’s First Solution Partner in APJ Company Updates

SUSE’s First Solution Partner in APJ

Becoming a Solution Partner in the SUSE Partner Program is no mean feat – it is a status awarded to select partners. As the highest partner tier…

Jessica Field06/12/2017

Australia vs the Rest of the World: A discussion on how OpenStack compares down under. Company Updates

Australia vs the Rest of the World: A discussion on how OpenStack compares down under.

At the OpenStack Summit in Sydney last month, Aptira's COO and Inventor of Solutionauting Roland Chan, and Project Manager John Spillane joined representatives from Telstra,…

Jessica Field02/12/2017

OpenStack Summit Sydney: Welcome to Australia Community Updates

OpenStack Summit Sydney: Welcome to Australia

Earlier this month, Aptira's founder and CEO Tristan Goode, and the OpenStack Foundation's Community Manager Tom Fifield welcomed the OpenStack Summit to Sydney. As the…

Jessica Field30/11/2017

Selecting a Well Engaged Open Source Vendor Thoughts

Selecting a Well Engaged Open Source Vendor

Aptira is in an interesting position in the Open Source market, because we don’t usually sell software. Instead, our customers come to us seeking assistance…

Tom Fifield20/11/2017

OpenStack Summit Sydney: Booth Babes & the Aptira Agenda Company Updates

OpenStack Summit Sydney: Booth Babes & the Aptira Agenda

The OpenStack Summit Sydney is almost here, and we're sending our Solutionauts from all over the world to be a part of it. Come see…

Jessica Field28/10/2017

Aptira’s Growing Army of Solutionauts: Welcome Michael and Craig! Company Updates

Aptira’s Growing Army of Solutionauts: Welcome Michael and Craig!

Our plan to take over the world continues, with the introduction of two new solutionauts to the Aptira army. Michael has spent the last decade…

Jessica Field29/09/2017

OpenStack Summit Sydney – Community Voting Community Updates

OpenStack Summit Sydney – Community Voting

The first ever Sydney OpenStack Summit is getting closer, and as one of the headline sponsors, we're gearing up for a great event! Session voting…

Jessica Field03/08/2017

OpenStack Australia Day Melbourne: Innovation, Donuts and the chance to win a FREE pass to the Sydney OpenStack Summit! Community Updates

OpenStack Australia Day Melbourne: Innovation, Donuts and the chance to win a FREE pass to the Sydney OpenStack Summit!

This time next week we will be halfway through OpenStack Australia Day Melbourne. And more than likely we will have demolished the donut wall! This…

Jessica Field26/05/2017