Inventor of OpenFlow SDN Admits Most SDN Today Is Hype 62
darthcamaro writes "Every networking vendor today is talking about Software Defined Networking (SDN). The basic idea is that the control of the underlying networking hardware is abstracted by software. Martin Casado helped to come up with the whole topic with his 2005 Stanford thesis (PDF). Eight years later after selling his startup Nicira to VMware for $1.2 Billion, Casado sees the term SDN meaning everything and nothing to all people. From the article: '"I actually don't know what SDN means anymore, to be honest," Casado said. Casado noted that the term SDN was coined in 2009 and at the time it did mean something fairly specific. "Now it is just being used as a general term for networking, like all networking is SDN," Casado said. "SDN is now just an umbrella term for, cool stuff in networking."'"
"Software defined computing" (Score:4, Funny)
It's the way of the future.
So we aren't going to be able to replace... (Score:5, Funny)
...all the fiber optic cables with software? We aren't going to move everything to the cloud, including the cloud?
Re:So we aren't going to be able to replace... (Score:2, Funny)
...all the fiber optic cables with software? We aren't going to move everything to the cloud, including the cloud?
Better be careful. God's gonna disappear in a puff of logic if you're not.
Re:dunno (Score:4, Funny)
You mean "infecting" servers with router VM appliances that smoke government blocks by creating backdoor VPNs, proxies, shadow VLANs and stuff?
Never happens.
Re:So we aren't going to be able to replace... (Score:5, Funny)
We aren't going to move everything to the cloud, including the cloud?
Sure we can. It's all based on something I call the "metacircular evaluator". My consultancy and I can install MEs in all your software systems so that you can move the software into the software, and define your business in terms of your business. "My god!" the tech business reporter exclaimed, "this is the most revolutionary thing I've ever heard, tell me more about how these MEs work".
Well, you just have to re-write everything in Lis--. And then, before I could even finish, the room was empty.