The Year Ahead in Network Infrastructure, SDN and NFV
2014 was an exciting year for network transformation, full of new players, new projects and new products. So what’s next? Cyan’ s CTO, Steve West, shares his top network infrastructure and SDN/NFV...
View ArticleThe Internet Will Disappear
Huh? Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday (January 22, 2015) said, “… the Internet will disappear …” – so much for sound...
View Article2015: The Year of the NFV Orchestrator
2014 was a year full of PoCs and limited trials for SDN and NFV. These activities were important steps for the industry as network operators try to understand the operational impact of moving toward...
View ArticleDCI Done Right: Introducing Cyan's N-Series
Recently, the term hyperscale was coined to describe the data centers for large cloud and content providers, which can contain well over 100,000 separate physical servers and can sends 100s of...
View ArticleVMware and Cyan at Mobile World Congress 2015
On Monday, VMware announced their new vCloud for NFV with integrated OpenStack. This important industry announcement signals a bold move by VMware as they step onto the NFV stage and compete for...
View ArticleCenturyLink and Cyan Formally Usher in the Network Virtualization Era
Today, CenturyLink and Cyan jointly announced that CenturyLink will be offering NFV-enhanced services to their enterprise and SMB customers based on Cyan’s Blue Planet NFV Orchestrator. We’re proud to...
View ArticleRural America: At the Forefront of Network Transformation
When it comes to rural America, thoughts that probably come to mind for most of us are picturesque farms, little league baseball games, and pick-up trucks, but “network transformation?” …not so much....
View ArticleAt the Forefront of the NFV Revolution @Layer123
Making the move from provisioning services on proprietary, vertically integrated hardware appliances, to dynamically provisioning the same services as software-based functions running on COTS...
View ArticleFUD Factor: Debunking SDN and NFV Myths from Incumbent Suppliers
As NFV is now moving beyond the PoC stage to commercial deployments, I’m seeing an increasing trend where large, traditional vendors are attempting to create FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) about...
View ArticleOne of the Secrets Behind Cyan’s Software
One of the most popular articles written last year about Cyan’s Blue Planet software noted that several of Cyan’s software engineers have video game development experience. That article, “Cyan Hires...
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