Home And Away: Digital Deluge Drives Networking’s Future
The massive growth of Big Data and analytics are major contributors to the fast-changing network environment, but several new studies highlight other drivers — both at home and away, and points in...
View ArticleHow Are Networking Jobs Changing?
Earlier this year I was both a speaker and a moderator at Network World’s Open Networking Exchange (ONX) conference in Chicago. While the thrust of the conference was the varying technological...
View ArticleSay Goodbye to IT
“Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” Thomas Paine, 1737-1809 Two centuries ago, when state-of-the-art IT was the 3,000-year-old abacus and the fastest form of communications was the smoke signal,...
View ArticleSDN: Still A Solution In Search Of A Problem?
Networks are facing serious problems with the four Vs — volume, velocity, variety and variability — so it should come as no surprise that any glimmer of a hope, i.e. software defined networking, is...
View ArticleSDN: An Offer You Can’t Refuse?
While there is no doubt that SDN poses a major threat to Cisco’s proprietary hardware business, it’s also not up for debate that it would be bad business — at least from a revenue and margin...
View ArticleCloud Computing Set to Slowly Scale Slope
Unlike more recent inductees into Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies such as the ‘Internet of Things’ — which is is still mired atop Gartner’s Peak of Inflated Expectations — cloud...
View ArticleWhat’s the Buzz Surrounding WAN Optimization?
Since WAN optimization first began to be deployed in the mid-2000s, analysts like myself have written numerous articles about the topic, several vendors have entered and/or left the market, and...
View ArticleCloud, SDN, and The Perils of Ignoring Reality
Unlike people with regular jobs (a questionable premise for a mainly IT audience, but just play along with me for a moment) I spend most of my working hours reading, researching and talking to analysts...
View ArticleMove Over Apple Watch, We Want Wetware!
I am a sci-fi junkie, and began mainlining speculative fiction in my early teens. Many of the technologies once imagined have since turned into everyday realities (i.e. artificial brains, robots and...
View ArticleIT’s ALL About Business Outcomes And Customer First
I’ve been living out of a suitcase for the past few weeks, in the midst of a five-vendor-conference road trip, and while the vendors ranged from IBM (Infrastructure Matters) to Unisys (Services Matter...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things Rekindles The IT versus OT Debate
A few weeks ago in Chicago, Cisco held its second annual Internet of Things World Forum. The first event was held last year in Barcelona, one of the most advanced cities in the world, and drew a few...
View ArticleIs Software-Defined Storage A Solution In Search Of A Problem?
Software-defined storage, or SDS, seems such a great idea. After all, when we are faced by a new project most of us still think in terms of how many drives to buy for it, yet the fact is that we can...
View ArticleIs 2016 the year of the SD-WAN?
A year ago we seldom if ever heard the phrase software-defined WAN (SD-WAN). Now we are continually inundated by articles that discuss SD-WANs and their value proposition. While it is always...
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