Adding an API to networking hardware doesn’t solve management challenges

This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent.

The short version

• This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent.
• Both Larry and I have learned over the years that operations are important and yet the topic is frequently neglected when teaching about networks.
• Yet the topic is important enough that we even wrote a book on Edge Cloud Operations : As you can tell from the title, that covers more than network operations, but networking is an important part of any cloud.

What happened

And since we had that material already to hand, it naturally formed the basis of what we wrote in the new textbook edition. So that is a gap that we have started to address as we revise the book on its path to publication.

Why it matters

My own networking career can be roughly divided into the “pre-cloud” and “cloud-centric” eras, with the dividing line being my 2011 decision to leave Cisco (the very definition of a traditional networking vendor) for Nicira, an SDN startup.

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