Open Network Featured Article

If you haven’t noticed, software is eating the world. Rigid, costly and inefficient hardware is giving way to a software-based reality, which is already displaying a multitude of benefits to IT departments everywhere. With success in the data center, enterprise and beyond in its brief but distinguished history, software-defined networking (SDN) is revolutionizing networking. This week, Pica8 and HPE made it a little easier to make your own custom, open, leading edge applications, as Pica8 is the newest member of the HPE SDN ecosystem.

“Enterprise customers have been watching SDN developments with interest, but they’ve been waiting for SDN solutions to come together,” said Mike Fratto, research director at Current Analysis (News - Alert). “HPE and Pica8 are illustrating that this application ecosystem combines both disaggregation and applications that truly solve real world problems for the enterprise.”

As the newest member to the ecosystem, Pica8’s PicOS supports applications available in the HPE SDN App Store. The App Store was launched with the intention of making SDN deployment and innovation as easy as possible. Opening the door to creating end-to-end SDN solutions to provide security, load balancing, traffic engineering, network segmentation as well as visualization and monitoring with best in breed tools.

“Pica8 has been working with HPE for nearly a year to provide a solid platform for turnkey SDN applications, and the combination of PicOS, HPE’s VAN Controller, Altoline switches, and applications from developers like KEMP Technologies is a powerful force that is taking SDN to the enterprise,” said Niraj Jain (News - Alert), vice president of business development at Pica8.

The perks of SDN are widely known, but complexity tends to rear its ugly head as a major hurdle to adoption. The HPE ecosystem simplifies deployment and development while gaining the power of industry leading solutions.

“By working with HPE, we stand squarely at the forefront of SDN application development and deployment.”