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Spring: Opening the Stack!
April was a defining month for Cloud and Networking people in Silicon Valley with two major events of significant impact for the industry: Open Networking Summit and the OpenStack Conference.
Open Networking Summit was a gathering of top players looking at disruptive solutions for creating smart, reliable and cheap networks. Combining the software and virtualization approaches, they are looking at a new way of making the flow over the network be the new unit of control; in other words making the network virtual and “active”. Everybody was there: network vendors, services providers and researchers from top universities. This was a great moment for the entire networking community. It reminded me of all the work we have done on active networks as far back as 1997, on flow-aware networking, and on virtual networks. After years of gestation, I can now see emerging from this powerful groundswell very credible initiatives that will revitalize networking in a significant way. There is another major consequence of this network revolution: the emergence of a new developer community for the Network – think “Linux community for the Network”.