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 [...]
The Amazing Network Chameleon
Apr 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I’ve always thought chameleons were cool. I actually had one when I was younger, and was fascinated by its ability to adapt to different surroundings by changing color. The networks of today are becoming technology chameleons that are adapting to meet the unique and ever-changing needs of their data centers and application workloads. No matter [...]
If Content Is King, The Network Is The Queen
Apr 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The game of chess requires a keen awareness of the positions for all the pieces, both yours and your opponent’s. Chess requires patient planning and vision; each piece has a different value, and some are more strategic than others. Of most importance is maintaining the safety of the king, by controlling squares on the board. [...]
Storage Elasticity and the Cloud’s Noisy Neighbors
Mar 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If you’re looking at setting up private cloud services — or public ones, for that matter — you should already to have a handle on how to automate the critical functions of creating, managing and migrating virtual servers. That’s because if you haven’t achieved this level of service elasticity, it is going to cost a [...]
The Cloud Redefines Corporate WAN Strategies
Mar 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The cloud is everywhere today and has become one of the biggest — if not the biggest — topics of conversation in the tech industry. I recently did a CIO roundtable where we discussed the cloud, and the big topics of conversation revolve around security and deployment strategies. This makes sense, based on where we [...]
Local Rules and the Need for Online Privacy: Clearing Away the Clouds
Mar 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If you’re debating the use of the cloud and offsite hosting, whether for backup, hosting virtual servers, or whatever, there is a lot more than just networking technology to worry about. Or rather, you may need to worry about the technology in ways that you didn’t expect. The reason is differing local rules and the [...]
Big Data — a Job For a Logistics Company?
Mar 11, 2013 by 2 Comments
There was a thread going round on Facebook a while back discussing the “fact” that FedEx had more bandwidth for dealing with big data than the internet itself had. OK — it sounds strange, but if all of FedEx’s vehicles were stuffed to the max with disks full of data, it could move more data [...]
Faster Access to the Amazon Cloud (Video)
Feb 28, 2013 by 1 Comment
Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers can be hundreds-to-thousands of miles away for a company’s core data center. And accessing those cloud data centers over lower-quality Internet connections can result in poor application performance and slow data transfers to the cloud. This video is a demonstration of Silver Peak software deployed as an Amazon Machine [...]
If You Wait Long Enough, The One You Want May Come Along
Feb 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cloud computing — the provision of IT services through a massively shared, elastic platform — holds much promise. However, like many of the silver bullets that have come and gone in the past (client/server, CORBA, web services, service-oriented architectures), everything only hangs together if everyone plays the game and doesn’t try to be too clever. [...]
The Role of Network Services in IaaS Solutions
Feb 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In my last blog I discussed the expanding set of cloud-based IaaS solutions. I also used the results of a survey that I recently gave to roughly 200 IT professionals as the basis for a discussion of the factors that are driving and inhibiting the adoption of IaaS solutions. I am going to use this [...]
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