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 [...]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SDDC But…
May 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In the 1972 film Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask), Woody Allen offered his take on seven questions that included sheep, Woolite, and some of Gene Wilder’s best-ever work. There is no sex (or humor) involved in the just-completed four-part series on the software-defined data center by Torsten [...]
9 Technology Trends Driving The Adoption Of SDN
Apr 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Mike Fratto, my former editor at Network Computing, now a consultant at Current Analysis, recently wrote a blog entry that tried to cut through the 3 Hs of SDN — Hype, Hoopla and Hysteria — by posing what some consider the essential question of life (unless you’re a Monty Python or galactic hitchhiker fan, in [...]
7 Minutes Versus $1.68 Trillion: Why Network Latency Is A Bad Thing
Apr 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Earlier this week I was being pre-briefed on an interesting open-source productivity suite when our VoIP-based connection crashed, and it took over 7 minutes before we were able to reconnect. That’s not a long time for a journalist or a couple of vendor executives, but for many others, 7 minutes is an eternity. What’s worse, [...]
SDN, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Software-Defined Everything
Apr 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As someone who actually practiced atomic bomb drills at public school — “bend over, put your head between your knees and kiss your @$$ goodbye” — ‘Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb‘ was not only a rollicking good black comedy, but a very alarming and cautionary tale. I’m [...]
Technology 101: Dell & Keep It Simple Stupid
Mar 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I’ve been covering IT for quite a while, starting around the time of the first white-collar revolt back in 1981. Ironically enough, the personal computer uprising was primarily initiated by IBM, who at that time was the epitome of a buttoned-down, my-way-or-the-highway approach. Among the vendors jumping on the PC bandwagon was Dell, and for [...]
Network Performance: Size Doesn’t Matter!
Mar 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
It’s true. When it comes to network performance, size doesn’t matter… or at least, the size of the business doesn’t matter (traffic volumes are another question/column). According to new data from AMI, Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) are rapidly moving to the cloud to meet storage, infrastructure, security, software application, and collaborative communication needs. The [...]
WAN Optimization: More Byte For The Buck!
Feb 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Network budgets, at least the data-center segment (10% compound annual growth through 2017), are outpacing overall IT budget growth (3.9% for 2013), but with network demands growing in double and triple digits, just throwing more money at the problem won’t do. Your network not only has to be bigger and faster, it has to be [...]
Perception Versus Reality (& Why Network Performance Matters)
Feb 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A new study from InformationWeek reports that there is a disconnect between the perceptions of end users and IT departments. While more than half (60%) of IT respondents said IT was integral, only 43% of non-IT participants concurred, and only half of business users reported being “moderately,” “very” or “completely” satisfied with the performance of [...]
Big Data Has Huge Network Implications
Feb 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Not everyone has been swept up by the Big Data hoopla which only showed up a year ago in Gartner’s five-stage hype cycle. While it has rosy expectations for the future, the research firm had Big Data approaching its “peak of inflated expectations,” to be followed by trough of disillusionment, slope of enlightenment, and eventually [...]
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