Evolving customer expectations push IT organisations to DevOps and extensive automation. They need to deploy applications faster and at a larger scale, without jeopardizing their reliability. But how do you achieve a shorter time to market instead of an operational nightmare? How do you deliver the agility and scalability customers are expecting? These were the […]
The last few weeks I’ve read several articles stating that telecom operators are losing their initial rush of excitement about SDN and NFV. Reality is catching up the nice promises. There are several causes for this, but in this post I’ll focus on a specific one that I have been discussing with some leading representatives […]
Service chaining is a hot topic in the SDN/NFV world. Service chaining is a simple concept but it requires many moving parts. Most SDN solutions use their own technology for chaining network services. The challenge in service chaining is knowing where in the chain a function is located and where the packet should be sent […]
New release with many improvements and bug fixes. Most notable features include: Port CLI tool to click and improve it. This removes cliff and other openstack deps from core Complete rewrite of the database layer removing the dependency on motorengine and improve scalability. Cleanup of many API calls and made them more consistent Improved handler […]
Proximus selected Inmanta the winner of its first Call for Innovation for its end-to-end orchestrator. Proximus committed to do a proof of concept (PoC) in the field of SDN / NFV using Inmanta’s orchestrator. What is Call for Innovation? Swisscom, Telia Company and Proximus, three leading telco providers from across Europe, jointly issued an […]
Digitalization causes a radical transformation of industries, providing unique opportunities for value creation and competitive advantage. Software-defined networking (SDN), often combined with network function virtualization (NFV), is now reshaping the datacenter and telecom landscape. The complexity of new networking technologies is often perceived as a threat, but SDN offers an opportunity to increase efficiency, to […]
When someone says: we have a Big Data project, I’m torn between enthusiasm and fear. In this post, I’ll write about my experience doing big data work. As a researcher in distributed systems, the whole big data/NoSQL thing is like living in a candy store. Distributed computing is hot again. The design of some big data systems […]