There are those that believe the era of infrastructure is gone, but Martin Casado is not among them. Casado, now a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz, discussed during a keynote address at the Interop conference here why we’re now on the cusp of an evolutionary shift in the infrastructure market.
Casado is well-known in the networking world as co-author of the groundbreaking research paper in 2005 that ignited the software-defined networking (SDN) era. He co-founded Nicira in 2007, a company he sold to VMware in 2012 for $1.2 billion. Nicira helped usher in the SDN era by removing networking from the constraints of being restricted to purpose-built hardware appliances.
“Traditional infrastructure is going through a shift, but we’re now on the cusp of something much better, a golden era of infrastructure,” Casado said. “I have heard many people talk about how infrastructure is dead, but I believe it’s coming to life in new way.”
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