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VNF Onboarding is known to be one of the biggest challenges in the transformation to NFV transformation as noted in one of the recent SDxCentral report: VNF Migration challenges. Arguably the biggest challenge organizations will face when… Read More

Telcos and enterprises alike are all clamoring to virtualize their networks, in order to reduce dependence on hardware, enable greater agility, and cost savings. And it’s no surprise that as a result of the networking industry being a very closed and proprietary market segment to date, Telcos and… Read More

In my previous post, “Is Networking Becoming Cool Again?”, I covered the future of Cloud Orchestration in the context of the networking virtualization market. Register to watch the Deploying VNFs at scale… Read More

We recently completed our joint webinar with Fortinet on how how they are using Cloudify model driven orchestration to deploy and manage the lifecycle of their VNFs, including virtual firewalls like FortiGate. Register and Watch Deploying VNFs at Scale with Cloudify Webinar on demand! The webinar featured some… Read More

Virtual branch is not a new concept. It’s been around for a while and has had varying degrees of uptake. The biggest promise of the virtual branch is to drive up operational efficiency and drive down operational cost by having a highly automated branch environment. In traditional environments… Read More

2017 has been a fantastic year for Cloudify having doubled our revenue compared to 2016, adding dozens of new clients, thousands of new users, and more community and ecosystem involvement through ONAP, Project ARIA… Read More

We recently completed our webinar overviewing and introducing the ONAP project. As many of you might already know, ONAP is the Open Network Automation Platform, being built to manage the NFV networks of the future. With the recent addition of Verizon, ONAP now covers over 60% of total… Read More

This article was originally published in IT Pro Portal on September 15, 2017. Not long ago, many businesses were still in the infancy stage of understanding the potential flexibility and efficiency created by the cloud. Fast forward to 2017 – organizations of all shapes and sizes recognize the strength… Read More

If you’re not familiar yet with our Kubernetes integration, suffice it to say that we believe the platform is a really important part of the container and microservices ecosystem. In fact, we have written quite a bit about the Cloudify Kubernetes Provider integration as well as the Kubernetes Plugin.Just… Read More

This article originally appeared in SDxCentral on December 29, 2017.Once upon a time, standards were our friends. They provided industry accepted blueprints for building homogeneous infrastructures that were reliably interoperable. Company A could confidently build an application and—because of standards—know that it would perform as… Read More

.gist .gist-file .gist-data {max-height: 400px} REST API has become the most common method for system integration these days. The majority of controllers, managers, and even network elements expose their services via REST API as it provides substantial benefits over traditional CLI scripting. There… Read More

Somewhere in the vicinity of 20 years ago there was a big wave of networking innovation, spurred by the internet age. It gave birth to huge networking companies like Cisco, Juniper, and Ericsson. Then, the pace of innovation just kind of stagnated. But, the recent… Read More