5 Must-Have Skills for Selling SDN and NFV
Carriers, open-source consortiums and big IT vendors have laid the groundwork for SDN and NFV. Demand is there, so what’s stopping widespread use? Complexity, a skills shortage and confusion. Channel partners who can clear all that up can write their own tickets.
- Review application development — Python, Puppet and Chef are key, as are APIs.
- Learn why and how to offer advisory services around how SDN/NFV can make the business more scalable and nimbler.
- Examine integration with current cloud management platforms, a prerequisite for orchestration.