Telecom carriers are looking to virtualisation to give them greater agility to compete with web companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon Web Services, says Bethany Mayer, HP’s senior vice-president and general manager of Network Functions Virtualisation Business.
Mayer was in Dublin earlier this week to address the Open Tech Ireland gathering on SDN technology, which was presented in co-operation with the Irish Software Association, Intune Networks, KEMP Technologies, and Sanctum Networks.
Mayer is also in charge of HP’s US$2.5bn a year networking division, which, under her leadership, has grown through 17 consecutive quarters and holds the No 2 market share position. In this role, she leads a global team of more than 6,000 employees that helps companies improve their performance through innovative networking technologies.
