The IoT is About New Experiences, Not Just Connected Things
2014 was a big year for the Internet of Things (IoT). Much of the focus of IoT has been on the topic of connected things. I actually wrote about connected devices in this blog on five different IoT...
View ArticleExtending VMware vSphere 6 Replication over the WAN
Data protection is essential for business continuity and disaster recovery, and that includes the protection of virtual machines (VMs). Today at VMware Partner Exchange 2015, Silver Peak announced that...
View ArticleIt’s The Software, Stupid! But Also The Hardware And ASICs
The mania around software is at an all-time high. Everyone is a software vendor and it seems no one wants to be in the hardware business anymore. Software is the new, sexy item and people flock to...
View Article13½ Interesting Questions about SD-WAN
Ethan Banks raised some thought provoking questions around SD-WAN on his blog. Here’s our response to those questions. 1) What’s the impact to hosts on virtual machine based endpoints, i.e. how much...
View ArticleIt’s Time For Network Engineers to Give Up Their “Sine Qua Non”
In the final 2009 season of the TV series Battlestar Galactica (the greatest show in history of TV), Admiral William Adama decides to let the fleet jump away and continue the search for Earth without...
View ArticleSo Which Is It: NFV or NSV?
Because I am sensitive to the fact that I am a recovering academic I am hesitant to get drawn into any “How many angels can dance on the head of a needle”-type discussions. Recently, however, I have...
View ArticleMaintaining VLAN Business Intent Across the WAN
VLANs (Virtual LANs) are a staple of enterprise networking — administrators partition LAN traffic into separate subnetworks. Using VLANs, you keep real-time traffic separate from bulk data traffic,...
View ArticleAnother New Year’s Resolution for Network Managers: I Will Embrace Virtual...
In my blog near the beginning of the year, I urged network managers to make a resolution to not stick with the status quo when it comes to evaluating and selecting an SD-WAN solution provider, as it...
View ArticleShould We Virtualize Functions or Virtualize Networks?
Last week I gave a keynote presentation at MEF and answered two questions that I’m commonly asked: What’s next after SD-WAN? What’s the relationship between SD-WAN and NFV? If you’ve read my previous...
View ArticleWhy Should Businesses Achieve Virtualization With SD-WAN?
Corporations and businesses have begun to drop their traditional networking methods to virtualize technology and reinforce their digital infrastructure. With the implementation of a software-defined...
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