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How Netcracker became the first business cloud nutcrackerJanuary 17, 2019Already known for the innovative capabilities that propelled its cloud and SDN/NFV ascension over the past decade, Netcracker, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, never rests on its laurels and keeps pushing the envelope. This time around, though, the bar was lifted very high. Netcracker has developed and launched a new cloud-based service that essentially includes everything the company has in its OSS/BSS product and services offering. Named Business Cloud, the platform leverages Netcracker’s cloud-based SDN/NFV and IT portfolio—from VNFs to orchestration, OSS, BSS, portals, and a digital marketplace—and offers the complete set as a service to whoever needs to build a cloud infrastructure to turn up new digital services. Clients, please log in to view the full content.Subscribers Only
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Juniper NXTWORK 2018: Taking the complexity out of multi-cloudsOctober 24, 2018Juniper’s NXTWORK 2018 event was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from 9 to 11 October. Roughly 1,000 customers, partners, and analysts from around the world attended. The keynotes featured Juniper Networks’ CEO Rami Rahim, CTO Bikash Koley, Chief Customer Officer Pierre-Paul Allard, VP Enterprise and Cloud Marketing Mike Bushong, and CMO Mike Marcellin; Panasonic’s Director of Strategic Initiatives of Smart Mobility Kellen Pucher and Senior Network Manager of Intelligent Transportation Systems Craig Smith; and The Home Depot’s Distinguished Engineer Stephen Olson. There were 64 informational and training sessions covering topics including Contrail, data center networks, core, edge, and metro networks, security, AppFormix, and strategic partnerships. Clients, please log in to view the full content.Subscribers Only
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Cavium (now Marvell) is the next hope for ARM-based CPUs in the data centerJuly 17, 2018In 2017, Cavium, Qualcomm, and Applied Micro were all sampling ARM-based SoCs targeted at data center servers. With Applied Micro spinning off its server CPU business to newly founded Ampere Computing and Qualcomm demonstrating no tangible design wins after announcing commercial availability for its Centriq SoC in November 2017, hopes for success of an ARM-based CPU ecosystem moved to Cavium, and in 2017 Cavium kept the design wins and partnership announcements coming. In January, Atos announced Cavium’s ThunderX2 will power its HPC for the EU-funded Mont Blanc project. In March, Cavium announced a partnership with Microsoft and in November revealed designs for a Cavium-powered Project Olympus OCP server. In May, Gigabyte, Ingrasys, and Inventec announced and subsequently launched new servers based on ThunderX2. In June, Penguin announced its Open Compute server lineup will feature a ThunderX2 sku. Clients, please log in to view the full content.Subscribers Only
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AMD partners with HPE and Dell EMC, turns up the heat on IntelFebruary 13, 2018In 2017, AMD changed the market dynamic for entry-level enterprise servers with its EPYC SoC, providing not just healthy competition but also opportunities for new designs utilizing the large number of memory channels and high I/O bandwidth available with EPYC. OEMs like Supermicro, Sugon, and Asus and white box server vendors like Wiwynn, Inventec, Gigabyte, and Tyan quickly backed EPYC, introducing over a dozen server models based on AMD’s SoC in 2H17. CSPs (cloud service providers) also embraced EPYC with Microsoft, Baidu, Tencent and JD.com all adopting EPYC-based servers. Baidu in particular boosted EPYC’s credibility in the market as it implemented a new 1-socket server design that utilizes EPYC’s memory channels and I/O bandwidth. Clients, please log in to view the full content.Subscribers Only
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Server architectures for a data-driven worldSeptember 20, 2017The nature of many applications is changing to become more data intensive as the number of data points that must be processed multiplies. In addition, many algorithms need to perform the same calculations on each data point in large data sets, introducing the opportunity for performing these calculations in parallel. The need for parallel computing became obvious with the work of the AlexNet team winning the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) and Google’s Brain Team advancing the science of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) and providing an open source machine learning library for neural network-based ML called TensorFlow. Other examples of applications needing parallel computation include advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) used in self-driving cars and real-time rendering for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), climate analysis, and financial trend analysis. Clients, please log in to read the full insight.Subscribers Only
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Co-Processors as a Service: GPUs, TPUs, and FPGAsJune 27, 2017Cloud service providers (CSPs) have begun to offer a variety of compute services to meet customers’ needs. Those needs can vary from general purpose computing, data mining, and website development to more complex requirements like artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), big data analysis, and real-time video processing. This has resulted in CSPs implementing different compute types, or instances, within their cloud infrastructures based on varying combinations of processors and co-processors, memory, storage, and networking equipment, providing customers with more options to choose the appropriate mix of resources they need for their applications. Clients, please log in to view the full content.Subscribers Only
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On the Extreme Edge, a Double Triple: AT&T Domain 3.0 and Google Cloud 3.0June 22, 2017The “software-defined” focus of telecom means not only separation of the control plane and the data plane with a centralized view of the whole network or its major parts but also a distribution of intelligence—read compute—in stepping stones toward the extreme edge of the network. We hear “edge compute” embodied in such efforts as MEC, at first in “Mobile Edge Compute,” morphing into “Multi-access Edge Compute”.Subscribers Only
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Outlook 2017: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Transform Cloud Services and Data CentersJanuary 30, 2017Machine learning (or ML)—where typically the computer is presented with example inputs and their desired outputs in order to learn a general rule that maps inputs to outputs—and analytics—the discovery and interpretation of meaningful patterns in data—capabilities integrated with enterprise and mobile applications are set to bring more innovation, changing how enterprises and service providers will serve their customers. 3 trends have come together to make it possible for enterprises of all sizes to apply analytic techniques to business processes. Please log in to read the complete insight.Subscribers Only
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(CenturyLink – Data Center Assets) + Level 3 = Cloud ServicesNovember 09, 2016On October 31, 2016, CenturyLink announced it reached an agreement to acquire Level 3, one of its major competitors in the broadband connectivity and off-premises cloud market, for approximately $34B including the assumption of debt, resulting in a new company 51% owned by CenturyLink and 49% by Level 3 existing shareholders.Subscribers Only
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VMware Targets Hybrid and Meta-Cloud UsersSeptember 20, 2016At the latest VMworld, VMware challenged its customers to be part of tomorrow and set a new vision for the company centered on what it called the multi-cloud, exactly what we have been referring to as a meta-cloud for the last 2 years, which is the use of multiple cloud service providers (CSP) moving from a hybrid cloud to a distributed architecture enabling a cloud of clouds.Subscribers Only
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Cisco Embraces Web-Scale Players and Plans White Box Switch AlternativesAugust 23, 2016This July, I attended Cisco C-Scape, where we were able to learn more about Cisco’s strategy and business from key company executives, as well as discuss the role of the network and the broader global market. C-Scape is a targeted analyst event taking place during the larger Cisco Live 2016 event held in Las Vegas on July 11-12. Cisco Live hosted more than 28,000 paying Cisco customers and partners, who could choose from 100s of training sessions to learn about new Cisco technologies and products and visit Cisco partner exhibits and meet other customers. The exhibition hall was much larger than many of the focused SDN/NFV conferences I usually attend.Subscribers Only
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Barefoot Networks and P4: Making Network Hardware as Programmable as SoftwareJuly 15, 2016We first wrote about P4 (Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors) when it was displayed during the Open Networking Summit (ONS) in March (see our Analyst Insight Open Networking Summit 2016: Where Open Source Software Met Programmable Silicon). P4 can be applied to numerous programmable devices including central processing units (CPUs), graphic processing units (GPUs), network processing units (NPUs), ASICs (including networking), and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). One of the major advantages of using programmable chips for networking is additional protocol compatibility or even adding new protocols; P4 allows packet processors to support new features post-deployment. Consequently, programmable chips also decrease the frequency of hardware refreshes; switch chips based on P4 enable end users to code their chips and reuse the hardware instead of purchasing new switches every few months to support the latest software innovations.Subscribers Only
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How Will Brexit Impact Enterprise Networking?June 28, 2016Last week, the UK held a referendum on the country’s continued membership in the European Union (EU). It was widely expected that UK voters would choose to remain in the EU, albeit it by a slim margin, but instead 52% of voters backed leaving the EU, sending shockwaves through financial markets around the world. Technically, nothing has changed—the referendum is non-binding, the UK has not formally asked to leave the EU, and once it does, the process of separating will take years, during which time existing rules of trade and migration apply. Yet the response by financial markets was swift, with the British pound hitting a 31-year low against the dollar, stock markets around the world falling, and major credit rating agencies lowering the UK’s previously perfect credit rating. The outcome of this referendum has clearly spooked investors and is undermining confidence everywhere.Subscribers Only
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Amazon brings Prime Music to UKJuly 28, 2015Amazon has launched Amazon Prime Music in the UK, bringing a catalogue of more than one million songs to the country’s Amazon Prime subscribers. The UK launch comes a full year after the service debuted in the US and will allow access to songs without an increase in their subscription cost. Amazon’s existing digital music retail and storage offers are integrated into the new service. While existing users will receive the service, the limited catalogue of available content will limit the impact of Prime Music on existing music services in the UK.Subscribers Only
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Apple Music can kick start on-demand music businessJuly 03, 2015Apple has made its long expected entry into the on-demand subscription music market with the launch of Apple Music: a premium only service with plans starting at $9.99/month for personal plans and $14.99/month for the family plan in the US. Apple Music will be available as a free trial for the first three months. Unlike its App Store policy, Apple Music launches with differential pricing based on geography and is available for much lower prices in less developed markets. In contrast to its App Store policy, Apple Music launches with differential pricing based on geography and is available for much lower prices in less developed markets.Subscribers Only
