{"id":8297,"date":"2013-07-17T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jul\/18\/brocades-simon-pamplin-digging-deep-future-sdn\/"},"modified":"2013-07-17T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T23:43:07","slug":"brocades-simon-pamplin-digging-deep-into-the-future-of-sdn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/brocades-simon-pamplin-digging-deep-into-the-future-of-sdn\/","title":{"rendered":"Brocade\u2019s Simon Pamplin: Digging deep into the future of SDN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With software defined networking (SDN), the network as we know it, along with the way businesses use computing processes, could be changed beyond all recognition.<\/p>\n<p>And Brocade is at the very heart of that shift, being founder members of OpenFlow and OpenStack and pushing ahead with technologies that ensure its customers are SDN-ready.<\/p>\n<p>Separating the data and control planes, SDN, as the name suggests, puts a layer of software between the components a network runs on and the network admin running them, leading in theory to a higher performance, more efficient networking process.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there have been criticisms of SDN, ranging from accusations of overhype and lack of implementation, to lack of interoperability, to not being in the interest of larger vendors.<\/p>\n<p>But as Simon Pamplin, Brocade enterprise pre-sales manager explains in a call to CloudTech, SDN is in an evolving, almost embryonic stage, meaning not everything&rsquo;s going to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With software defined networking (SDN), the network as we know it, along with the way businesses use computing processes, could be changed beyond all recognition.<br \/>\nAnd Brocade is at the very heart of that shift, being founder members of OpenFlow and Ope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}