Re: NFV Solution Evaluation Methodology

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

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)