SDN, Cloud Computing Acceptance Among Top Interop Trends

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Eric Lundquist.

Interop is one of the last independent technology trade shows since many of the current crop of IT conferences has fallen into the morass of self-congratulatory vendor specific events. The conference piece of the exhibition has morphed along with the tech industry itself as cloud computing, mobility and big data have reshaped the corporate IT.

This year’s event reflected those changes and highlighted some of the big trends continuing to sweep through the networking segment, which after all, was the show’s original focus. Here are some of the top trends. Everyone loves software-defined networking—whatever that is. Swearing fealty to software defined networking is now an essential part of every vendor’s pitch…

SDN is more a concept than a specific product selection and that makes sorting out the vendor claims difficult. Let’s just describe it as network moving from a provisioned to programmable environment and network administrators will have to become proficient at coding instead of manually manipulating network capacity…

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