Heather Kirksey, director of The Linux Foundation's OPNFV, explains that the project is well past the "hype" into the "implementation" phase. More of her thoughts shared at the OPNFV Summit in this article.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/23/operators_keen_to_ditch_clunky_networks_and_move_to_software_architecture/"We can look to the OpenStack Foundation, Cloud Foundry Foundation, Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Open Container Initiative, Open API Initiative and many others as examples" writes Dr. Angel Diaz about attracting top dev talent.
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