On 1/Aug/20 16:52, Etienne-Victor Depasquale wrote:
But the point is just that: how serious is this progression towards cloud-native, if so much effort was put in to virtualization?
I suspect that if a significant amount of investment has already gone into classic NFV, and for the most part, it's working reasonably well, an operation would need to be seriously bored or have tons of cash and time around to uproot all of that work and change things around without some compelling technical or commercial reason to do so. Despite the NFV world being well bedded in, it's still an evolving piece of tech., and this is one field where operators are prone to spending multiple times on the same thing, as they realize the previous decision fell out of favour with the community or their favorite vendor. I've seen it happen right here in South Africa, when a company built an "SDN" platform 7 different times in 3 years as the industry kept oscillating; going through whatever "SDN" platform vendors pushed, what the open community was putting out, OpenStack, e.t.c. They eventually closed down that side of the business, this year. So for greenfield sites, maybe. But for existing installations that have been around a while, I guess the transition to "cloud-native" might be a bit of an ask, given the industry's history on this. Mark.