HP defines future Cloud strategy with SDN start-up acquisition
Tech giant hopes the deal will further strengthen HP’s leadership in the fast-growing NFV market.
Tech giant hopes the deal will further strengthen HP’s leadership in the fast-growing NFV market.
While traditional IT spend is on the decline, manufacturers must update their cloud roadmaps to ensure their investments benefit the business.
In the last 12-18 months, Software Defined Networks (SDN) has been much touted as a data centre saviour.
"With SDN, developers are not restricted by the limitations of current hardware.”
The pace of change for Information Technology is challenging established notions of "What is IT?" and "What is Information Security in the modern age?" For one example, the "new" data center technologies such as virtualization, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), service-oriented delivery models, and cloud computing have radically changed the typical IT infrastructure from a defined set of assets owned and controlled by the organization to a constantly fluctuating roster of resources that can come and go from IT department visibility and control.
Disruptive technologies do just what their name implies. They shake up existing markets and values and replace it with new markets. Such disruption can be painful, wrenching and traumatic, even though they play out over decades and, more often, come out for the better at the other end.
As someone who spent billions with HP over 20 years while in IT leadership roles at Boeing and Verizon Wireless, John Hinshaw knew the big hardware, software and services company from the outside as well as anyone. In the year-and-a-half since becoming executive vice-president of technology and operations at HP, he's been putting that knowledge to use on the inside.
From software defined networking challenges to killing Cius and corporate restricting moves, it was a busy year for Cisco.