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Monthly Archives: February 2017
Why going ‘cloud native’ is the key to success with NFV
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MWC “I get the feeling the momentum is there – people are understanding architecturally how to make it work now,” says Steve Gleave, senior vice president of marketing at Metaswitch Networks.
Gleave could be speaking about any emerging technology within reason, but in this instance, it’s NFV (network functions virtualisation), the concept of taking old school network appliances and replacing them with software. And at Mobile World Congress this year, it’s more than likely to be one of the most used and abused terms at the Barcelona jamboree.
Cisco, Red Hat, and Altice announced this morning that they had all joined up for such an initiative, while ZTE and Telstra have also made moves in this area over the past day or so, and recent research from Heavy Reading showed that 99% of respondents were either using, testing, or considering OpenStack for their NFV deployments.
Plenty to mull over there – but is this a genuine tipping point or more bluff and bluster from the industry? Gleave argues that from Metaswitch’s perspective, the company’s Clearwater project – an open source implementation of IMS – gave it something of a head start. Yet the strategic thinking was off.
“The reality as we see it is that all of the promises of NFV everybody in theory understands – agile, cost efficient, software,” says Gleave. “Where NFV has struggled to get out of the gates is [when] people have essentially [got] software sort of running on the hardware, [and they think] ‘I’ll rip it off, stick it in this virtual machine, play around with the software emulation layer, and that’s it, we’re there’…it’s NFV because it’s working on a virtual machine in a hypervisor in the cloud.
“The reality is that if you just take this block of monolithic code and drop it in, you’ve got the same problems you had before.”
Gleave adds, while insisting Metaswitch did not fall into this trap, that the industry had been similarly bogged down in nomenclature one-upmanship. Are they calling it the next generation of NFV? Or NFV 2.0? Why is that company calling it NFV 3.0? Going forward, the ‘cloud native’ approach to development needs to be utilised.
So what does this entail? It’s essentially making sure your software is written as microservices instead of a huge block of code; small chunks of code, with well defined APIs, run in containers, with none of the baggage which comes with legacy material. “Over the next two or three years you’re going to see people rearchitect some of their software,” says Gleave. “They have to; and that will be the test of whether companies really are software companies or not.”
Elsewhere, Metaswitch announced the acquisition of OpenCloud, whose mission is to implement change in telecoms networks more efficiently and to ‘deliver the number one service layer for competitive advantage’. Clearly, and with NFV as well as 5G in mind, it’s an excellent fit. The two companies had previously partnered, and Gleave added that there was a ‘certain mentality’ which aligned, as well as cultural agreement.
Why going ‘cloud native’ is the key to success with NFV
(c)iStock.com/oztasbc
MWC “I get the feeling the momentum is there – people are understanding architecturally how to make it work now,” says Steve Gleave, senior vice president of marketing at Metaswitch Networks.
Gleave could be speaking about any emerging technology within reason, but in this instance, it’s NFV (network functions virtualisation), the concept of taking old school network appliances and replacing them with software. And at Mobile World Congress this year, it’s more than likely to be one of the most used and abused terms at the Barcelona jamboree.
Cisco, Red Hat, and Altice announced this morning that they had all joined up for such an initiative, while ZTE and Telstra have also made moves in this area over the past day or so, and recent research from Heavy Reading showed that 99% of respondents were either using, testing, or considering OpenStack for their NFV deployments.
Plenty to mull over there – but is this a genuine tipping point or more bluff and bluster from the industry? Gleave argues that from Metaswitch’s perspective, the company’s Clearwater project – an open source implementation of IMS – gave it something of a head start. Yet the strategic thinking was off.
“The reality as we see it is that all of the promises of NFV everybody in theory understands – agile, cost efficient, software,” says Gleave. “Where NFV has struggled to get out of the gates is [when] people have essentially [got] software sort of running on the hardware, [and they think] ‘I’ll rip it off, stick it in this virtual machine, play around with the software emulation layer, and that’s it, we’re there’…it’s NFV because it’s working on a virtual machine in a hypervisor in the cloud.
“The reality is that if you just take this block of monolithic code and drop it in, you’ve got the same problems you had before.”
Gleave adds, while insisting Metaswitch did not fall into this trap, that the industry had been similarly bogged down in nomenclature one-upmanship. Are they calling it the next generation of NFV? Or NFV 2.0? Why is that company calling it NFV 3.0? Going forward, the ‘cloud native’ approach to development needs to be utilised.
So what does this entail? It’s essentially making sure your software is written as microservices instead of a huge block of code; small chunks of code, with well defined APIs, run in containers, with none of the baggage which comes with legacy material. “Over the next two or three years you’re going to see people rearchitect some of their software,” says Gleave. “They have to; and that will be the test of whether companies really are software companies or not.”
Elsewhere, Metaswitch announced the acquisition of OpenCloud, whose mission is to implement change in telecoms networks more efficiently and to ‘deliver the number one service layer for competitive advantage’. Clearly, and with NFV as well as 5G in mind, it’s an excellent fit. The two companies had previously partnered, and Gleave added that there was a ‘certain mentality’ which aligned, as well as cultural agreement.
Data Infrastructure Server Storage I/O | @CloudExpo #Storage #DataCenter
Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network and associated tradecraft are your skills, experiences, insight as well as tricks of the trade, profession and job function (read more about what is a data infrastructure here). This is the first of a two-part series exploring data infrastructure along with server storage I/O and related tradecraft. Read part two of this series here.
CA “Platinum Sponsor” of @CloudExpo NY & Silicon Valley | @CAinc #DevOps
SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named “Platinum Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 20th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business – from apparel to energy – is being rewritten by software. From planning to development to management to security, CA creates software that fuels transformation for companies in the application economy.
Finding Transformational Success by Ignoring Labels | @CloudExpo #Agile #DigitalTransformation
She’s smart. He’s funny. They’re the ambitious ones. That company is an innovator. This technology is a game-changer.
As humans, we love labels. Consciously and unconsciously, we slap them on everything – and with good reason. The average human brain must process over 34GB of information each day. There is no way to do that and maintain our sanity unless we organize all that information in some way. And sticking labels on things is how our brain copes.
Cloud Security Market to Grow to $13.93 Billion by 2024
Cloud security is one of the fastest growing market segments today. The latest report from Grand View Research Inc further accentuates this trend, as it predicts the cloud security market to grow to $13.93 billion by 2024.
Even if this sounds phenomenal, it’s still possible because of a host of factors. Firstly, more companies are moving to the cloud because of the many benefits that come with it. At the same time, the last few years has seen an increasing number of cyber attacks and data breaches that have resulted in millions of dollars of loss for companies. To counter this problem, cloud security strategies will be put in place. Already, many cloud service providers and client companies are working on addressing cloud security flaws, and this is only expected to increase over the coming years.
Secondly, many cloud service providers are investing heavily in security infrastructure in the form of additional infrastructure, research and innovation. Some are even acquiring other companies that have made remarkable progress in cloud security. All these investments are sure to bring in more customers, thereby increasing the size of cloud security market.
Thirdly, cloud computing is erasing geographical boundaries with its widespread reach. As more companies take to the cloud, this market will grow. Along with it, the security market will also grow to keep pace with the growing security needs of customers.
Another important factor that will fuel the growth of cloud security market is the changing government regulations. As cloud computing becomes a mainstream part of businesses, governments are forced to come up with regulations that will protect the interests of businesses and individual consumers. These regulations are more likely to make cloud access and security more stringent, and this in turn, will fuel the cloud security market.
For example, Germany and other countries in the EU are option for high data privacy by enacting legislation to keep data only within their geographical borders. In other words, data pertaining to German businesses and residents should be stored only within the territorial boundaries of Germany. Other countries like the U.S and France are striving to get greater visibility on Internet traffic. With such regulations in place, cloud security is sure to grow.
Along with government regulations, industry specific regulations such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for the healthcare industry, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for the financial sector, Safe Harbor Act and European Union Data Protection Directive are likely to make enhance cloud security, and this could eventually help the cloud security industry to grow.
Due to these factors, the cloud security industry is well on its way to some astounding growth over the next decade.
According to the report, the major players in this market segment are CA Technologies Inc, Cisco Systems, IBM Corp, Intel Corp, TrendMicro and VMWare. Other companies that are vying for a market share in this industry are Whitehat Virtual Technologies, Snoopwall Inc and BMC Software.
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Parallels at Mobile World Congress Press Event
We had a great time at ShowStoppers press event Mobile World Congress (MWC) at the University of Barcelona yesterday, on February 26, announcing to different journalists that Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) is now available at Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Parallels RAS on Azure was demonstrated at the event including hands-on demos of how simple it is to use […]
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Hitrons IoT to Exhibit at @ThingsExpo New York | @HSItweets #IoT #M2M
SYS-CON Events announced today that Hitrons Solutions will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Hitrons Solutions Inc. is distributor in the North American market for unique products and services of small and medium-size businesses, including cloud services and solutions, SEO marketing platforms, and mobile applications.
To Do or Not to Do: #Microservices | @CloudExpo @Wipro #DevOps #AI #IoT
As Enterprise business moves from Monoliths to Microservices, adoption and successful implementations of Microservices become more evident. The goal of Microservices is to improve software delivery speed and increase system safety as scale increases. Documenting hurdles and problems for the use of Microservices will help consultants, architects and specialists to avoid repeating the same mistakes and learn how and when to use (or not use) Microservices at the enterprise level. The circumstance when Microservices is an appropriate solution described in this article and based on the authors’ work experiences, best practices available in the Microservices community. However, using Microservices Architecture does not guarantee success to the enterprise.