{"id":5165,"date":"2012-12-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2487646"},"modified":"2012-12-19T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:00:00","slug":"sdn-concrete-or-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/sdn-concrete-or-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"SDN: Concrete or Concept?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A question \u2013 specific to F5 technology \u2013 was raised during the panel session I moderated at Gartner DC 2012 that for me, at least, raised an interesting question. Well, actually it wasn&#8217;t just that question, but rather the question was the icing on the cake after hearing commentary from enterprise IT attendees on the subject of SDN.<br \/>\nYes, there&#8217;s already a spate of SDN-washing, similar to cloud-washing, that&#8217;s going on in the market. While ONF certainly laid out a set of characteristics defining SDN, those characteristics are not a concrete list of requirements. It&#8217;s not, after all, an RFC, with an easy to evaluate list of &#8220;MUST NOT, MUST, SHOULD NOT, and SHOULD&#8221; requirements. As Captain Barbosa said, &#8220;\u2026the code is more what you&#8217;d call &#8220;guidelines&#8221; than actual rule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2487646\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A question \u2013 specific to F5 technology \u2013 was raised during the panel session I moderated at Gartner DC 2012 that for me, at least, raised an interesting question. Well, actually it wasn&#8217;t just that question, but rather the question was the icing on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}