Guest Blog Submitted by Filippo Galimberti,Sr. Marketing Manager SP

This is an exciting week at theOpenStack Summitin Austin. It's been another great opportunity to meet, share experiences,anddiscuss the future of Cloud Computing. One of the most important takeaways is the maturity of theNFV transformationhappening in theService Providerspace. It is no longer just talk with many of the world's leading operators announcing their OpenStack powered NFV projects and deployments during keynotes and breakout sessions.

OpenStack has evolved now to be more mature, makingAgility, Flexibility and Cost Reductiona reality, which is why it's on top of every service providers' agenda.

Cisco and RedHat presented the Cisco NFV Infrastructure, a joint solution enabling carriers to easily adopt the NFV paradigm shift.

Vijay Venugopal(Director, Product Management NFV, Cisco) andChris Wright(VP, Chief Technologist, RedHat) discussed the benefits and explained the opportunities of network transformation in a very interesting interview with industry analysts.

Cisco NFV Infrastructuremakes it easy for service providers to embrace the network transformation towards virtualization. Further simplifying and automating their NFVoperationsto deliver applications and services faster and providing them greater levels of business agility.