software defined networking

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Live Q&A: SD-WAN—What, How, and Why It’s Got Your Number

The shift from physical to software-defined networks has left many people in the IT community with more questions than answers. What’s driving the explosive adoption of SD-WAN technologies for enterprise…

Unpopular Opinion: How SD-WAN Will Improve Security

The consensus is software-defined networking in a wide area network (SD-WAN) will provide organizations unprecedented agility but possibly at the expense of security, as traffic flow changes to a distributed…

Do Network Engineers Dream of Software Defined Sheep?

I really want Software Defined Networking (SDN), or something like it, to be the go-to approach for networking, but are we too tied to our idea of what SDN is…

One Framework to Rule Them All

The Dream of the Data Center For me, it started with OpenStack. I was at a conference a number of years ago listening to Shannon McFarland talking about using OpenStack…