The Changing Face of IaaS

In a recent blog post I stated that 2013 will be a pivotal year for the use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions. I will use my next two posts to elaborate on some of the changes that I see happening in that environment. The initial set of IaaS solutions that were brought to market by Cloud [...]

Looking Forward to 2013

Working in IT in 2013 will not be suited to the faint of heart.  I say that because, in over thirty years of working in the IT industry, I have never seen so much fundamental change occurring across so many dimensions.  While some of these changes have been around for a while, some are relatively [...]

Virtual open architecture for WAN optimization anywhere

WAN optimization is now vital to all aspects of a distributed network. Gone are the days when WAN optimization was only required to address the issues of a handful of problem WAN connections. Today, major IT initiatives such as data center consolidation, cloud computing, virtualization, and disaster recovery share a common theme — and a [...]