PQ 155: Forecasting Network Evolution At VMworld’s Future:Net 2018

Today’s Priority Queue was recorded live in August 2018 at the Future:Net conference at VMworld 2018.
Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks interview Bruce Davie, VMware’s VP & CTO, VMware Asia Pacific & Japan; and Guido Appenzeller, VMware’s CTO, Cloud and Networking.
The Packet Pushers and their guests discuss:

* Whether blockchain has legitimate enterprise uses
* Key differences between multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments
* The difficulty of day-2 operations in cloud deployments
* The bifurcation of networking into the underlay and overlay
* What needs to happen to bring intent-based networking from vision to reality
* VMware’s notion of the self-driving data center
* Why security needs to be a feature, not a product

This episode peeks at the promises of new and emerging ideas in networking, but with a practical eye for the realities of real-world operations, and a bit of push-back on grand visions.