In this iteration of Gestalt Cloud News:
– Ben Kepes looks at if Oracle is actually a cloud company
– The On-Premise IT Roundtable discusses if cloud is more process than technology
– Eric Shanks looks at the fate of public cloud if net neutrality ends
Plus our usually selection of great community reads!
The Future Of SDN Is Up In The Air
Riverbed is a well known name in the WAN optimization market, and increasingly in the SD-WAN space as well. The company recently acquired Xirrus. It may seem like a curious move to acquire wireless assets. But Tom Hollingsworth does a great job of putting it into the perspective of Riverbed’s existing business. He sees the wireless edge as the next market for them to expand into. Given the success Riverbed has had integrating Ocedo assets into their SteelHead line, I think the company is capable of moving into a new market.
Simplify SD-WAN with Riverbed
Riverbed is working in the growing field of SD-WAN. The SD-WAN space seems like it’s ready to explode in 2017. I’m on record as predicting we’ll see the space’s first big IPO this year. Riverbed is growing within the space, having acquired another SD-WAN company, Ocedo, a little over a year ago. The company now has over 300 customers and is currently providing about 1,600 free trials of their software. They’ve been around in the WAN optimization market for a while, and are now starting to combine the two solutions in unified devices.
4 Possible Outcomes For Brocade’s IP Networking Business
By now, you’ve probably heard that Brocade was purchased by Broadcom (if you haven’t… I’m sorry to break it to you this way). But what you might not have heard is that Broadcom plans to sell off Brocade’s IP networking business. Drew Conry-Murray at Packet Pushers breaks down how this sale might go down. In […]
Riverbed Announces SteelConnect™ Unified Connectivity Fabric
This is post 8 of 8 in the series “Riverbed SD-WAN Tech Talk” Today, Riverbed has officially announced the release of their SD-WAN solution. The name of the product line is SteelConnect™ and, as expected, has unified the visions of Riverbed’s in-house development initiative named Project Tiger and Ocedo’s unified connectivity fabric approach. Let’s take […]
SaaS and the Software Defined WAN
This is post 7 of 8 in the series “Riverbed SD-WAN Tech Talk” In this series of posts, we’ve looked at a number of solutions that apply to most companies today, including WAN optimization, SD WAN, and Riverbed’s acquisition of Ocedo bringing LAN switching, wireless networking and the ability to create multiple AWS VPC mesh […]
Simplifying Branch Network Management With SD-WAN
This is post 6 of 8 in the series “Riverbed SD-WAN Tech Talk” If you have ever been responsible for a network with multiple branch locations, the idea of a “branch in a box” is probably something you have given some thought to. You might have called it by a different name, but generally the […]
Making Your WAN Work For You
This is post 5 of 8 in the series “Riverbed SD-WAN Tech Talk” At first glance, Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD WAN) sounds like another case of SDNwashing (cf. cloudwashing). Is it just some kind of automated configuration of existing technologies dressed up as a new product? What Is SD WAN? Before looking at […]
SD-WAN And The Hybrid Cloud
This is post 4 of 8 in the series “Riverbed SD-WAN Tech Talk” The cloud is changing the WAN Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past few years, you are likely to be at least somewhat familiar with the idea of public cloud computing offerings. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and a […]
SD-WAN: I Can See Clearly Now
This is post 3 of 8 in the series “Riverbed SD-WAN Tech Talk” It may sound like an obvious thing to say, but one of the key requirements for a successful Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) solution is the ability to make intelligent decisions about where to send each packet. The problem is more and more […]