How Do I Love Mobility ? Let Me Count The Ways…

Let’s do a quick calculation. How many employees do you have, rounded up to the nearest 100? What percentage of them are mobile? Have they sourced their own devices through BYOD? Do you use VPN access through to a private data center? Hang on… what has the last question got to do with all this?… Read More

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The Changing Role of the IT Professional

Over the last few months, I have moderated three software-defined networking (SDN) seminars that were produced by Network World. In each seminar a number of speakers spoke at length about the potential for SDN to automate the vast majority of configuration changes that are now done in a largely manual fashion, and in every session… Read More

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$250M in Riverbed Steelhead Refresh Targeted by Silver Peak

According to an April 2013 report by Baird Equity Research, “[Riverbed] management has cited a $250 million install base of 20 series product that goes end-of-life early next year. We see this as important product refresh opportunity for the company in its core market.” Silver Peak also recognizes this as a critical opportunity and has… Read More

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It’s Time For Interop To Go Back To The Future

I’ve been an analyst now for a little over a decade. Prior to my role as an analyst, though, I held many technical positions, including a long stint as a networking engineer. When I was an engineer, my favorite trade shows were Cisco Networkers and Networld + Interop. The value of Networkers was to get… Read More

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A Pox* On (Too Many) SDN Standards

What if you created a standards group that everybody wanted to participate in? I’m not saying that OpenDaylight Project represents all — or even the majority — of SDN stakeholders, but its current lineup of industry heavyweights will probably do for now. Announced on April 8, it is intended to ‘accelerate adoption, foster new innovation… Read More

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How Do I Love Mobility ? Let Me Count The Ways…

Let’s do a quick calculation. How many employees do you have, rounded up to the nearest 100? What percentage of them are mobile? Have they sourced their own devices through BYOD? Do you use VPN access through to a private data center? Hang on... what has the last question got to do with all this? Let’s assume that you are a middling-sized company with 1,000 employees. Let’s also assume, for the sake of argument, that 40% of these are “mobile” -- as in, they use a device to carry out work activities while outside of the office. That’s 400 people who are making demands on the corporate ITC platform at some point. Finally, … Read More

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