NFV Solution Evaluation Methodology

Wed Aug 3 03:07:42 UTC 2016

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> But but but...  cloud!  THE CLOUD!  Cloudy clouds fluffy white flying
> through the air, you should move everything to the Cloud (tm).
>
> Sometimes people forget that *somebody* needs to run the bare metal and OSI
> layer 1 things that physically make up the cloud.
>
>
mr by isn't wrong there are lots of ... over sold things.
but, NFV isn't necessarily 'cloud'... It CAN BE taking purpose built
appliance garbage that can't scale in a cost effective manner and replacing
it with some software solution on 'many' commodity unix-like-hosts that can
scale horizontally.

-chris
(just a chemical engineer... really)