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Meet OpenDaylight Project Executive Director Neela Jacques (Video)
The OpenDaylight Project works on Software Defined Networking. Their website says, "Software Defined Networking (SDN) separates the control plane from the data plane within the network, allowing the intelligence and state of the network to be managed centrally while abstracting the complexity of the underlying physical network." Another quote: it's the "largest software-defined networking Open Source project to date." The project started in 2013. It now has an impressive group of corporate networking heavyweights as sponsors and about 460 developers working on it. Their latest release, Lithium, came out earlier this month, and development efforts are accelerating, not slowing down, because as cloud use becomes more prevalent, so does SDN, which is an obvious "hand-in-glove" fit for virtualized computing.
Today's interview is with OpenDaylight Project Executive Director Nicolas "Neela" Jacques, who has held this position since the project was not much more than a gleam in (parent) Linux Foundation's eye. This is one of the more important Linux Foundation collaborative software projects, even if it's not as well known to the public as some of the foundation's other efforts, including -- of course -- GNU/Linux itself.
Today's interview is with OpenDaylight Project Executive Director Nicolas "Neela" Jacques, who has held this position since the project was not much more than a gleam in (parent) Linux Foundation's eye. This is one of the more important Linux Foundation collaborative software projects, even if it's not as well known to the public as some of the foundation's other efforts, including -- of course -- GNU/Linux itself.
Are these Software Defined Networks similar to the Cloud, as in you get more for less money, with the side effect being they are slightly less reliable.
So we can look forward to having radios, cellphones, and other communication appliances as wonderfully reliable and secure as our laptops.
Hasn't the write-once-run-anywhere sandboxed Java Virtual Machine been hit with much security breeches recently. So much that some people advice removing it from your computer. ref
Turns up nothing older than 2014. He sprung out of nowhere. Never heard about him until this post showed up. Who is he?