Comments on: Managed hosting providers offer up early-stage SDN use cases http://gigaom.com/2013/02/22/managed-hosting-providers-offer-up-early-stage-sdn-use-cases/ Sun, 19 May 2013 23:35:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Michael Bushong (@mbushong) http://gigaom.com/2013/02/22/managed-hosting-providers-offer-up-early-stage-sdn-use-cases/#comment-1315747 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:46:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=612374#comment-1315747 [full disclosure: I spent 12 years at Juniper and now work at a startup in the SDN space]

A couple of thoughts here…

– There is a lot of talk about acquisitions. We should be somewhat clear about where these acquisitions are likely to benefit. The Cariden and Contrail acquisitions here are most likely to be used with SP solutions. So I like the fact that you are bringing some of this to light since so much of the coverage conflates enterprise (or datacenter) offerings with SP (more WAN facing) solutions.
– And I /love/ that you are talking more than cost savings. The focus has been disproportionately on HW cost and automation costs. A new CIO comes in. In year 1, he analyzes and then re-orgs. Year 2 reaps the cost savings of the re-org. In year 3, he has to provide value. Any CIO who is banking on cost savings as a means of driving value for the company should keep a resume writing service on retainer.

Great article. You hit two hot-button items for me.

Mike Bushong (@mbushong)
Plexxi

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