Capacity, March 2016
There are voices that argue that for moderation in place of unseemly haste if this future is to be reached bloodlessly. Robin Kent, director of European operations at vendor Adax, believes that in the headlong rush to virtualise, assumptions are often made than software is where all emphasis should go at the expense of hardware elements: “To prove successful, NFV can only occur when there is architecture in place for both hardware and software,” he warns. “Getting away from proprietary hardware is good, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.”