http://gigaom.com/2012/07/24/software-the-new-networking-paradigm/ Mon, 20 May 2013 14:36:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/07/24/software-the-new-networking-paradigm/#comment-870841 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:28:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=545563#comment-870841 Reblogged this on DCIM DataCenter Infrastructure and Critical Facility News.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/07/24/software-the-new-networking-paradigm/#comment-868372 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:58:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=545563#comment-868372 Reblogged this on Virtualized Geek and commented:
Interesting indeed, the shift is just not on the vendor side but the enterprise side. It has been difficult enough to move from silo network and server operations to integrated teams that understand the relationship between the hypervisor based network device and the physical network device. The Nexus 1000 and OpenSwitch helps but when it comes down to serious trouble shooting there’s a lot of figure pointing in the current environment.
VMware needs to help tell this story to the enterprise. The Google’s and Facebook’s of the world already understand how to build teams that can work cross platform. But try selling this concept to the frontline managers. If you go into your average IT Manager’s office even in the largest of enterprise and you will get a blank look when you talk SDN. Even as enterprises start to move existing datacenter workloads to the cloud there will be a need to retrain existing server and network operations to understand the other side.

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