Organisations must not overlook the network when deploying containers
Many organisations consider containers a godsend, with containerisation allowing development teams to move fast to deploy software efficiently and at unprecedented scale.
Many organisations consider containers a godsend, with containerisation allowing development teams to move fast to deploy software efficiently and at unprecedented scale.
In Australia and New Zealand, like most markets around the world, traditional networking vendors with legacy "lock-in" technologies have dominated the networking segment.
Big Switch Networks — a US startup that develops software-defined networking technology for data centres that bills itself as a “disruptor of traditional Ethernet switching” — has formally launched its operations in Australia and named Mario Vecchio as managing director of Asia Pacific, based in Melbourne.
Dell expanded on its open networking initiative this week with a resale arrangement with SDN company Big Switch Networks.
Citing concerns over technical and market direction, Big Switch Networks has downgraded its participation in the OpenDaylight consortium, a multivendor effort to define an open source SDN framework.
I recently had the chance to sit down with Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch Networks to get his insight on whats hot with SDN for 2015.
What of the oft-mentioned northbound APIs that will let applications tell the controller what they need from the network? What kind of progress is the Open Networking Foundation making on that front? Network World Editor in Chief John Dix put the question to Robert Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch Networks and head of the ONF's Architecture and Framework Working Group.