[192827] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Accepting a Virtualized Functions (VNFs) into Corporate IT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Mon Nov 28 13:04:16 2016
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To: Kasper Adel <karim.adel@gmail.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:04:08 +0200
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On 28/Nov/16 19:53, Kasper Adel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Vendor X wants you to run their VNF (Router, Firewall or Whatever) and they
> refuse to give you root access, or any means necessary to do 'maintenance'
> kind of work, whether its applying security updates, or any other similar
> type of task that is needed for you to integrate the Linux VM into your IT
> eco-system.
>
> Would this be an acceptable offering in today's IT from different type of
> Enterprises (Minux the Googles, Facebooks...etc) ?
Vote with your feet.
Mark.
