Take a Network Break! We’re joined this week by Mike Fratto, a principal analyst at Current Analysis. We examine the motivations for Citrix’s spin-out of the GoTo business line and check in on a customer survey on the Dell/EMC acquisition.
We parse some market numbers on SDN, examine Nokia’s role in the Open Compute Project, and drill into Cisco’s announcement that it’s opening its IOS software to third parties.
We also poke a little fun at the latest open consortium (this one’s for fog computing), and scratch our heads at Google’s ambitions around cloud revenue.
And this episode sees the debut of Packet Releases, a new feature of the show in which Ethan shares a speed round of the latest vendor releases.
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Show Notes:
GoTo Wall Street
Citrix to Spin Off GoTo Family of Products – Business Wire
Surveying Dell, EMC Customers On Acquisition
Dell-EMC Customer Sentiment Analysis – ESG
Nokia Joins Open Compute
Welcoming Nokia to OCP – Open Compute Project
SDN A Billionaire
SDN Market To Surpass $1.4 Billion This Year – Network Computing
Cisco Opens Up IOS
Cisco Opens IOS XR to Third-Party Applications – SDX Central
Cisco Introduces Breakthrough Software Solutions for Cloud-Scale Networking – Cisco Systems
Google Wants To Make It Rain From Cloud
Urs Hölzle, Google’s 8th employee and tech guru, thinks the cloud could make more money than ads – Business Insider
Google Launches Custom Machine Types for Its Cloud Platform – TechCrunch
Google Names Diane Greene to Lead Its Cloud Business – Forbes
A Foggy Idea
OpenFog – Open Fog Consortium