OpenStack & Beyond Podcast – Episode 8 | Live From Mobile World Congress Talking NFV
Mobile World Congress was a whirlwind event this year and there was no shortage of NFV interest and talk throughout the 4-day conference. The OpenStack & Beyond team made sure to get in on the action by hosting a live episode straight from the floor (well, in a meeting room).
Hosted by Nati Shalom, we had an all-star panel this episode, including participants from Intel, VMware, Metaswitch, and GigaSpaces. They all had very interesting viewpoints on the growth and maturity of NFV in the marketplace. The discussion covered topics ranging from issues of vendor lock-in to microservices and DevOps to the varying approaches of implementing NFV.
We hope you enjoy this fantastic episode, which inludes our esteemed panelists:
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Petar Torre is Technical Lead at Intel Service Provider Group for strategic programs in datacenter, network and service transformations. Within Communications Service Provider infrastructure focus Petar is working on key CommSP projects and ecosystem enablement.
Vanessa Little is the Global Lead NFV Ecosystem Architecture at VMware.
Paul Drew has been with Metaswitch for more than 20 years, and is currently responsible for mobile infrastructure development and Project Clearwater, Metaswitch’s open source IMS Core.
Arthur Berezin is the Cloudify Product Manager at GigaSpaces. Previously, he was Senior Technical Product Manager with Red Hat’s OpenStack Product Management Group. Arthur has great deal of experience with Cloud, Virtualization, Infrastructure, and Open Source technologies working with companies of various sizes from large enterprises to start-ups. You can read more of Arthur’s work on his blog.
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Below are some tweets and discussions from this episode:
#ostackast #MWC16 Live #OpenStack & Beyond podcast – concensus #nfv is just booming! And open source is key @vmware @intel @metaswitch
— Cloudify (@CloudifySource) February 25, 2016
Everyone is terrified of vendor lockin & we’re trying to change the mindset @vmware is moving towards open platforms #nfv #ostackast #MWC16
— Cloudify (@CloudifySource) February 25, 2016
#ostackast @Intel will continue to support open initiatives & contribute code towards hyper-scale of #cloud #MWC16 https://t.co/RwaGl8xLXF
— Cloudify (@CloudifySource) February 25, 2016
Companies are now able to rollout new #VNF services in weeks vs. months once upon a time #ostackast #MWC16 @metaswitch #nfv
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) February 25, 2016
New small and agile software companies are able to put out disruptive #VNFs when once this was dominated by major vendors @vmware #ostackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) February 25, 2016
The playing field’s been leveled for smaller #nfv companies like @metaswitch & @CloudifySource vs. Cisco/Nokias @vmware #MWC16 #ostackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) February 25, 2016
Microservices / DevOps movement into #NFV has made everything more agile to implement @CloudifySource #MWC16 #ostackast @ArthurBerezin
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) February 25, 2016
Customers no longer looking for a platform but a solution – don’t want more science experiments @vmware #nfv #MWC16 #ostackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) February 25, 2016
Telcoms have different approaches with how to implement #nfv of ops vs. services with convergence of environments @intel #MWC16 #ostackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) February 25, 2016
Deploying #NFV stack was cumbersome until now because of a lack of a standard #MANO but standardization is coming @vmware #MWC16 #ostackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) February 25, 2016
Ideally we’ll figure out what the common information model is and converge standards #mano @intel #MWC16 #ostackast #nfv
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) February 25, 2016
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