Network virtualisation is going to continue to have a major influence on the evolution of OSS. It’s going to be exciting to watch it all unfold.
“We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.” Michael Crichton Network inventory has always been a fundamental building block of a full-service OSS. Many of today’s OSS were designed at a time when inventory was physical, whereby network devices were tangible, physical objects. This made object hierarchies relatively simple – one […]
“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.” Edsger Dijkstra This is the last in this “So, what is it going to be?” series. Do you need your OctopOSS to be highly available (HA), with mullti-site failover, redundancy mechanisms, constant data sych, etc? Or is your OctopOSS non mission critical and doesn’t require a DR (Disaster Recovery) site, doesn’t […]
Consulting on OctopOSS projects allows the opportunity for endless learning and personal growth like no other profession that I can think of. A tennis player’s growth is asymptotic, delivering an ever diminishing improvement for a given amount of training and development effort. A project manager deals with new projects and new people, but the evolution […]
