
Summary Bullets:
- IT and network jargon begins to co-mingle, but is this bilateral cross-pollination or one-sided?
- Who’s courting who in the mashing together of the network, data center and cloud?
Over the past few months, it has become apparent that service providers, as a group, have nearly all endorsed the idea of transforming their networks in order to capture the benefits of a more agile and flexible platform from which they could provide XaaS (anything as a service). One of the initial barriers, which still remains, is the obvious disconnect between the terminology used by the network folks and their counterparts in the IT world to accomplish similar functions – like programming languages and installation processes. Continue reading “Python, Puppet, Chef, ONIE and ODM – New Terms for the Service Provider Equipment World?”