Dimitrios Stiliadis – Chief Artchitect, Nuage Networks stopped by #theCUBE at OpenStack Summit briefly yesterday to talk with co-hosts John Furrier and David Floyer about the SDN marketplace and what exactly Nuage Networks position is, having been spun out of Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) earlier this month. Nuage created an end-to-end solution for network virtualization encompassing the cloud datacenter and the WAN. In doing so, they set the gold standard for best practices on how an incumbent networking vendor should enter the SDN marketplace.

The network is a fundamental piece of cloud services. Nuange wants to dynamically connect applications with your existing services. It sees itself as “translating the two languages,” marrying existing services with #OpenStack.  The data center network becomes a scalable IT fabric in Nuage’s mind, and all of the intelligence gets pushed around the edges.  However, now the edge of the network is inside the server. Stiliadis believes that the hybrid cloud is only possible by connecting the networks and the services.

During his visit he was asked: DevOps is a mindset — infrastructure as code, can you describe it?  His response:

It’s a moving target, that’s what it is. Reality is that application and code is a living organisms. It’s constantly changing. You can not assume at any point it’s stopping. It’s not the good old days, that’s what it really means, it’s a living organism. It will constantly adapt to the new requirements out there.

The only constant is change. Nuage is changing the SDN marketplace for the better.