SDN

Write down this new acronym (as if we needed a new acronym!) - SDN, or Software Defined Networking.

This is a project of The Open Networking Foundation which is a consortium of a group of the leading network providers like Cisco, Microsoft and Juniper. The idea is to virtualize networks on a cooperative basis, giving companies the advantages of latency and scalability to a degree that can only be available with virtualized networks.

It\s bound to be popular  and will be useful for cloud computing as it adds a set of standards that will be helpful in that arena. it's another stepo away from the old proprietor based systems of previous years and is a liberation for companies from the old constraints of those outdated systems. For more on SDN, see this article.