PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At a forum held today for investment professionals, James Liao, CEO and president of Pica8, told attendees that network equipment vendors are increasingly at odds over approaches to software-defined networking (SDN), and that disruptive new vendors like Pica8 can play a key role in changes occurring in the data center.
Speaking on a panel at the 2014 JP Morgan SDN Forum in San Francisco, Liao cited a September 9 eWeek article that reported on comments made by Joe Skorupa, Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst, about the state of the data center and the impact of disruptive technologies like SDN. The article quotes Skorupa as saying, “…increasing market pressures are driving a change in vendor behaviors, which, along with the four disruptive factors, make the market ripe for a period of major disruption. These behaviors will become more obvious as the pace of change increases.”
“In 2015 and beyond, SDN vendors like Pica8 will deliver the disruptive technologies that change data center architecture, forcing established vendors to compete in unfamiliar territory,” said Liao.
About Pica8, Inc.
Pica8 pioneered open networking with PicOS™, the first network operating system that enables customers to easily migrate from conventional networking to software-defined networking (SDN) using commodity bare metal switches. PicOS supports all major routing and switching protocols and delivers SDN solutions through Pica8’s adoption of Open-vSwitch (OVS). Pica8 can provide PicOS, switching hardware or both in a fully integrated package as part of an end-to-end data center SDN solution, and makes adopting SDN easy with a Starter Kit that enables deployment in hours rather than months. Pica8 is a global company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.pica8.com or follow @pica8 on Twitter.
