Cloud Computing: Software defined what?
November 28, 2012
Grazed from The Age. Author: Trevor Clarke.
It’s the latest buzzword in the crowded IT dictionary: "software defined network", or SDN for short. But is it something Australian technology and business leaders need to worry about for 2013? Or can they comfortably ignore the industry hype and get back to their plans for mobile, social, cloud computing and big data?
The answer is one that consultants and analysts love to give: "it depends". It depends on whether you are a large telco, cloud computing provider, IT service provider or research institute operating a large or complex network: these are the likely candidates for early adoption of SDN…
Yet, the idea of a software defined network is one that is exciting the networking industry, and it should be a term that all business leaders understand and use, as they do other recent terms such as "virtualisation" and "cloud computing"…
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