[190916] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NFV Solution Evaluation Methodology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Tue Aug 2 23:09:45 2016
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From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 23:07:42 -0400
To: Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke@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)
