In our last post, we discussed the different perspectives of software and how it affects the approach to Open Networking solutions by different stakeholder groups. In this Part 4 of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, MAY 3RD, 2016 – Aptira, the leading managed services company for OpenStack clouds, has appointed Simon Anderson as Executive Chairman to steer the…
Our client wanted to introduce an AWS like elastic multi-tenant IaaS to its managed service customer base in order to complement its existing traditional VMWare vCloud…
A while ago I had a little rant about Ceilometer and dangers of overreaching. A similar discussion has popped up in the OpenStack-Operators list, during which…