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Software Defined Networking: Disillusionment With Current Technology

By Dick Weisinger

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) decouples physical infrastructure and lets network administrators control their network services with software. While many believe that SDN represents the future of networking, Gartner’s recent networking hype cycle shows that at least currently SDN has run into a “trough of disillusionment”.  “This

Software Defined Storage: Cloud and Virtualization Spending Trump Big Data

By Formtek

Despite significant hype, very little funding is being set aside for Big Data, Object Storage and OpenStack by businesses, according to a recent survey by Datacore — 2015 The State of Software-Defined Storage.  Instead, businesses are funding initiatives like virtualization, private

Software-Defined Enterprise: Metanautix Quest Software-Defined Data Mart

By Dick Weisinger

A combination of Analytics, Cloud and Mobile are revolutionizing the way many enterprises work.  The fuel that’s powering these technologies is software and data.  The movement towards software started with software-defined servers or server virtualization, but it didn’t stop there.

Software Defined Data Centers (SDDCs): Extending Virtualization to All Aspects of the Data Center

By Dick Weisinger

Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) is an extension of the concept of virtualization to include all infrastructure resources in a data center, like networking, storage, CPU and security. Eric Grall, head of the digital data center at Atos called SDDCs “‘the third

Software Defined Networking (SDN): Growing at a Blistering Rate of 90 Percent Annually

By Dick Weisinger

The Software Defined Network (SDN) market will grow from just $960 million in 2014 to $8 billion by 2018, at an annual growth rate of 90 percent, predicts IDC.  That’s an incredible rate of growth. Leading vendors in this market