Until recently, the emerging notion of ‘software-defined’ has largely been fragmented.
In the application development world, taking a software-defined approach to configuring the operational environment to support rapid software deployment is an important enabler of the DevOps movement.
Similarly, software-defined networking – so essential for the internal operations of public clouds – has become an increasingly important part of the enterprise networking story.
Pulling together the application and networking contexts of the software-defined trend, however, has largely been out of reach, until now.
At last week’s Disrupt customer event, Riverbed Technology laid out a software-defined strategy that combines the network and application worlds into a seamless, powerful reinvention of how networking meets the increasingly dynamic needs of the business.
In fact, Riverbed’s move is remarkably bold, a ‘skate to where the puck will be’ strategy intended to leapfrog over networking bellwethers like Cisco Systems, positioning Riverbed as a thought leader in the burgeoning ‘software-defined everything’ space.
Riverbed CEO Jerry Kennelly was unabashedly sanguine. “We’re going into the mainstream networking market for the first time,” Kennelly says. “It’s fundamental seismic shift in the company.”
Read the entire article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2016/09/22/steelconnect-sd-wan-riverbed-technologys-wayne-gretzky-moment/.
Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, Chef Software and Riverbed Technology are Intellyx customers. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. Image credit: Jason Bloomberg.
