Cloud Computing: Feds Learn About Shifting to Software-Defined Networking
May 6, 2014
Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: David Ramel.
Software-defined networking (SDN) is an emerging and evolving technology, but "it’s the place where we’ll all end up at," speaker Anil Karmel told an audience of federal agency IT staffers in a recent webinar. While such a shift to SDN might well be inevitable, it entails many questions and concerns, with security being foremost in an event geared toward government IT.
Karmel, himself a former federal agency deputy CTO, told the audience that security and other SDN considerations in the new age of mobile computing are closely related to context-aware IT. He spoke about SDN and related issues last week in a webinar titled "Evolution or Revolution?…
The Software-Defined Shift in Federal IT," along with Steven Hagler of Hewlett-Packard Co. The event was produced by MeriTalk and sponsored by UNICOM Government IT and HP…
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