Author Mark Twain is said to have lamented the three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. Twain, who knew a thing or two about people, also said “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.“, and given the latest numbers on IT budgets, […]
Data Center Consolidation
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We have come a long way from the POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) infrastructure of yesteryear. Indeed, today’s Metro P-OTS (Packet-Optical Transport Services) deliver many thousand times more capacity using less energy, and at a fraction of what customers were paying back in the days […]
One of the concerns I hear from network managers regarding all things software defined networks (SDNs) is the lack of use cases for the new technology. It seems the technology promises to solve so many problems that it’s hard to understand where to start. Network […]
In a recent post here on WANSpeak, Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst at ZK Research, stated that he has evolved from trying to make the case that a software-defined WAN is a good alternative to a traditional WAN, to believing that the SDW should be the […]
You can’t fix stupid, according to Texas funnyman Ron White, but stupidity — or at least human error — is a leading cause of security breaches, and its escalating costs are no laughing matter. I recently came across a novel idea for a new metric […]
When talking about networks, the discussions quite often come down to discussions around bandwidth. Everyone knows that more is better — well, at least that is the standard thought process anyway. Mainstream wired LAN connections are currently running at the 1Gbps and 10Gbps level, with […]
The latest findings from Infonetics Research should come as no surprise: 40 Gigabit is booming in the data center and 100G is taking off in the core. “Deployments of 1G, 10G, 40G, and 100G ports once again grew significantly in 2013, as enterprises and service […]
Once upon a time, ‘data center’ was really just a fancy name for a server room. Now, data centers are big business — and huge consumers of power and other resources. Indeed, their hunger for power means that they now account for a significant proportion […]
VMware, EMC’s majority-owned virtualization business, has been pushing the software-defined data center for close to two years, but while SDDC still remains more of a concept than a reality, virtual appliances are going mainstream in the data center, according to a new report from Infonetics […]
“The more, the merrier!” goes the old cry. Well, not when a multitude of applications jostle for priority across a ‘best effort’ Internet. Oldies among us still remember the days of crystal-clear analog telephone conversations across connections that were completely reserved for our conversing pleasure […]