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 [...]
It’s Time For Interop To Go Back To The Future
May 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
A Pox* On (Too Many) SDN Standards
May 13, 2013 by 1 Comment
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 [...]
5 Ways BYOD Could Threaten Your Network
May 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If you are concerned about having mobile devices on your network, and about BYOD in particular, you are not alone — and you are right to worry. Mobile devices face a variety of threats, depending on the platform. Here are five of the most important, in no particular order. 1. Theft or loss: theft is [...]
Is Krzanich the Right Choice for CEO of Intel?
May 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Roll back the clock to November 20th — on that day, Intel CEO, Paul Otelinni stated that he was retiring from his four-decade-long tenure at Intel, the last eight of which were as the company’s CEO. After six months of searching, Brian Krzanich has emerged as the winner and will officially sit in Captain Kirk’s [...]
Broadband – A Game of Leap Frog, or Just A Squashed Toad?
May 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Being old and gnarly, I remember the way that I, as a Brit, could look down my nose at the Yanks during the late 1990s as our fully integrated mobile telephone system, stretching across the whole of the European continent was so modern. It made the US’ approach — having to tell a provider that [...]
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 [...]
11 Places For Geeks
Apr 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We’ve all seen the headlines over the last year or so: “The end of IT,” “No software,” “The move to cloud.” It looks as though the days of the geek are numbered. The capability to dig into the bowels of technology through the use of CLIs (if you need to be told what a CLI [...]
Yes, Size Does Matter (Especially When It Comes To ADC Performance)
Apr 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I’m not sure why this happens, but it seems that every few years, this industry likes to debate the death of certain markets. Application Delivery Controllers, particularly the tried-and-true hardware platforms, have been under attack before and seem to be again. To me, the concept that you could just build ADC functionality into another product [...]
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