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, [...]
Using The Mobile WAN for apps? Look Out For Latency!
Apr 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The mobile phone operators promise us blinding speeds, especially with their newest 4G and LTE networks, but will this actually be any use to business — or will deploying your modern apps via smartphone without WAN acceleration make your users feel like they have stepped back into the Dark Age? For the mobile networks, the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What Do Water and Bandwidth Have In Common?
Jan 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The great rivers of the world are forces of nature that have provided crucial sources for transport, commerce, and communications for centuries. An unrestrained river can carve and alter the topography with its power, while an obstructed one can adversely impact the human and animal populations within its path. When a free-flowing river turns into [...]
Giving Thanks for the Future of SDDC
Nov 22, 2012 by 1 Comment
When I come back from an industry conference, I always like to see what members of the press have had to say about it. It’s interesting to compare the writer’s take to my own and see if we agree or differ on some of the prime messaging that occurred at the show. One synopsis of [...]
SNW Europe: When SSD turned disruptive
Nov 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s hard to miss that this is the year of SSD, or solid-state disk. There is a certain irony therefore – or possibly, given its location, schadenfreude – in an event being ‘themed’ to keep up with the latest trends, only to find out that the new theme is already out of date. So it [...]
Trying to Fit a Square Peg into a Round Hole?
Nov 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“You can’t fit a square peg into a round hole” is a simple statement that applies to many things in our lives. It certainly applies to the way many network administrators attempt to use data center and networking technologies to support their business goals and objectives. For example, if you have 100 applications that are [...]
WANop Flesh Wound From Slings And Arrows?
Oct 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Recently, WAN optimization has been subject to a lot of troubling news, and if not suffering “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” then the gist of them has been more than it’s “only a flesh wound.” Regardless which muse brightens your day, Shakespeare’s “slings” or Monty Python’s “wound,” the reality is that WANop concerns [...]
When “East-West” is More than Pacific to Atlantic
Oct 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
When discussing cloud computing, the term “East-West latency” often comes up as users on one coast of the US have found themselves using data centres on the opposite coast – and find that the user experience was not quite as they would wish. The direct distance between San Diego, California on the western seaboard to [...]
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