Claiming to have a unique ‘hybrid cloud’ delivery strategy, HP has now released its Helion hybrid cloud portfolio for cloud builders, service providers, ISVs and enterprise customers. But coming almost ten years after the first cloud launch, HP may seem a little behind the curve. […]
Bernt Ostergaard
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So, as network IT manager you have has just been invited to join the DevOps team to spearhead the company’s push into new global markets – congratulations! As you head off to the first meeting, two thoughts cross your mind: Can you provision the WAN […]
My Day at the Races I recently got myself invited to a Formula-1 event and expected a grandstand seat to watch the races. I quickly realized that that was not going to work. If you are close enough to make out the drivers in the […]
Net Neutrality: A Force To Be Reckoned With OTT (Over-the-Top) content (notably video) on the public Internet continues to tie up yet more of the public Internet capacity. Infrastructure providers, however, are wary of investing heavily in new infrastructure capacity since with net neutrality they […]
At this year’s Cisco C-scape EMEAR analyst event, the vendor downplayed its hardware product launches, focusing instead on its rapidly evolving business credentials. Cisco, with its oft-repeated message of massive Internet traffic growth, talked this time about business outcomes, and delivering all the elements – […]
Enterprise adoption of the Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) architecture opens up significant improvements from an operations, cost, and flexibility perspective. But it’s a big forklift infrastructure shift, where company size, and thus network complexity, are crucial factors in any decision to embark on the […]
Many IT shops are looking at ways to adapt their corporate infrastructure to a Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) that enables an open networking ecosystem across multi-vendor equipment. The October 2014 report from the ONUG (Open Networking User Group) SD-WAN Working Group, entitled Software-Defined WAN […]
When disruptive cloud architectures began to shake corporate IT foundations, it required a ‘cloud stack’ to create, manage, and deploy infrastructure cloud services. Today, such stacks are available from a wide range of providers, some use proprietary code, but increasingly corporate users are adopting open […]
With the fast growth in mobile devices being used to access corporate applications and data, board-level GRC (governance, risk & compliance) requirements for mobile security need to be on par with the security demanded of all other devices used to access corporate applications. The GRC […]
As with any new technology, there is the inevitable chasm between the engineering developers (tasked with implementing innovative technology) and the marketers (tasked with getting it out into the market). Network Function Virtualization (NFV) continues that trend. What the term actually means, and how it […]