How Do I Love Mobility ? Let Me Count The Ways…

Let’s do a quick calculation. How many employees do you have, rounded up to the nearest 100? What percentage of them are mobile? Have they sourced their own devices through BYOD? Do you use VPN access through to a private data center? Hang on… what has the last question got to do with all this? [...]

Yes, Size Does Matter (Especially When It Comes To ADC Performance)

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 [...]

Should We KISS Workload Management Goodbye?

I am always surprised at how IT goes around continually revisiting problems from the past.  For example, in the 1990s, the constant refrain seemed to be around homogeneity — the search for the universal system that could run any workload that was thrown at it.  Organizations eventually figured that there was a need for specialist [...]