Recently Cisco’s annual user conference, Cisco Live!, was held in Orlando, Florida. This is the place one wants to go to learn about networking trends as evidenced by the 20,000 attendees. One of the hottest topics there was “software defined networks” (SDNs), as network professionals […]
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Whether we are here as readers, writers, or both, there is something that all of us on the WANspeak blog have in common — we either have, or have had, problems with application performance. If you are already using WAN optimization then I hope the […]
How many headlines have you seen blaming computers for a range of problems? Bank ATMs giving out the wrong amount of money. Utility statements with a few extra zeros on the total. Finding that you are double booked on a flight. It’s all the computer’s […]
The tech industry has gone through more change in the last decade than any other period of corporate IT. Virtualization has redefined the data center, the network access edge has become predominantly wireless, and consumers are now making decisions on what devices come into the […]
Will Mobile Device Management (MDM) be the next big application category to move to the cloud? A number of companies are betting that it will, not least because it looks as if that will be the only way to persuade small and medium-sized businesses to […]
I recently met with NetEvidence, a company that provides insights into network and application performance. It provides the service through a cloud offering, and allows areas such as the root cause of poor performance to be rapidly identified; it can then integrate into help desk […]
Though the question has been frequently discussed and debated by press and analysts, my take is that “What Is Software-Defined Networking?” isn’t the right question to ask until you answer the question of what problems IT organizations are trying to solve for which an SDN […]
In my discussions with end-user organizations around the world, the USA PATRIOT act often comes up as a concern for organizations when it comes to data security in a cloud world. The act, initially signed off by George W. Bush in 2001, is better looked […]
A little while back, I wrote a blog entry that used a Venn diagram to look at how the employee, the IT department, and the business needed to be in sync in order for BYOD to work in an organization. The use of the Venn […]
Mature companies need mature data recovery solutions. Just ask Aramex, a leading international transportation and logistics company. Aramex needed to shrink its 24-hour recovery point objective (RPO) to meet tighter disaster recovery procedures and appeal to prospective customers who demanded higher levels of business continuity. […]