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Re:Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer by Spooky23 on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @09:31PM (#11302030)
SDN is changing the model here, and Google is way ahead. In an enteprise, you can use VMWare to do a lot of the stuff you are blowing big bucks on for Cisco/Juniper on and use switches with higher density.

SDN is going to turn the cost structure on its head -- I wouldn't want to be a network guy now, easily 60% of tasks are getting vaporized in the datacenter.

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Re:Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer by pyvpx on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:08AM (#11303482)
As a network guy, it's a _great_ time to be an experienced network person. The only mature aspect of the ill-defined SDN sphere is OpenFlow and that will only get you so far. Try as they might, controllers like OpenDayLight and the various things that plug into Neutron/OpenStack aren't plug and play for those w/o significant network knowledge.

From my vantage point, it's going to be at least another five years before the cost structure really does turn over on it's head for folks below the hyperscale level

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Re:Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer by Spooky23 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:28PM (#11305960)
No doubt. Any change is great news for smart people. But the average joe churning out firewall changes and similar are screwed.
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