Bi-Modal IT Bemusement – I Call It Project-Driven IT
I’ve been much amused byBi-Modal IT that Gartner coughed up a few months back. Bimodal IT refers to having two modes of IT, each designed to develop and deliver information- and technology-intensive services in its own way. Mode 1 is traditional, emphasizing scalability, efficiency, safety and accuracy. Mode 2 is nonsequential, emphasizing agility and speed. […]
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Network Dictionary: Blast Radius
Define "Blast Radius"
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Concerns about SD-WAN Standards and Interoperability
Ivan raises good points about SD-WAN and interoperability on his blog today. But I think the benefits of SD-WAN are too good to wait for ten years for standards to catch up. Oh, and its up to you to demand standards from the vendors.
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Musing: Increasing Dependence on DNS in SDN World
Containers, IPv6 and “SDN DNS” is why DNS is critical to your network architecture and day-to-day operations. At the same time, "DNS operations" doesn't seem to be getting the attention considering how critical it is to network, servers and DevOps alike. I wonder if I am missing something.
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Response: The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect Or Where Have All the Good Staff Gone
Nodding my head so hard my chin is hitting my chest. "What tends to remain behind is the ‘residue’ — the least talented and effective IT engineers. They tend to be grateful they have a job and make fewer demands on management; even if they find the workplace unpleasant, they are the least likely to be able to find a job elsewhere. "
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Differentiation in Software Defined WAN
One of the most interesting things about SD-WAN is the level of real differentiation between the different vendors that has actual business outcomes. Let me explain, most SD-WAN vendors are using overlay networks to bypass the restrictions and limitations of IP routing. A few of the features in common are: multi-path networking dynamic and temporal […]
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Network Dictionary: Consolidation versus Convergence
What is the difference between Consolidation and Convergence in a technology market ?
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Response: My Industry Thoughts in 30 Seconds
Ivan posted his answers to 3 questions posed by a media agency. I got the same email and perhaps my thoughts might add something to the discussion. Q. What can enterprises do to ensure that their infrastructure is ready for next-gen networking technology implementations emerging in the next decade? Hire more people and invest in […]
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Convergence & Standards in IT Infrastructure
In this "nominal 15 minute analysis" I"m looking at technology convergence and how it needs standards for the market to operate.
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Musing: Does Oracle Prove that OpEx Beats CapEx in the Enterprise ?
Oracle has a tough quarter with its top line business shrinking quickly as developers choose open source databases instead. – Source: Bloomberg At a business level, there is definitely a trend by corporates to “avoid” Oracle as licensing fees have increased dramatically to reach a pain threshold that CIOs cannot ignore. While the choice for […]
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Three Questions on Network Switch & Operating System Disaggregation
In which I respond to three questons hardware & software disaggregation.
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Analysis: Convergence In All The Markets as Big Acquisitions Go Down
What is the common theme ? Avago buys Broadcom, EMC buys Virtustream, Intel rumoured to buy Altera, HP buys Contextstream and Palo Alto buys Cirrosecure.
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Why Firewalls Won’t Matter In A Few Years
This presentation from Alex Stamos, CSO of Yahoo during the AppSec conference is explains why firewalls are not part of their security strategy. Firewalls operating at 10G or more are not cost effective. Vertical scaling of performance costs more than the services are worth. At 100G, a firewall has less than 6.7 nanoseconds to “add value” […]
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Blessay: Linux on Network Switches Makes Sense. For Your Career
Why do you want Linux on a network switch ? Mostly its about enhancing your career.
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Do Networking Vendors Make Their Own Products ?
Not even close. Software & hardware components are multi-sourced to build a product you want to buy.
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Where are we with SDN in May 2015 ?
There is so much to talk about in SDN that I couldn’t finish any of the dozen or so blog posts that I started in the last three weeks. Instead I created a 15 minute Keynote presentation that had the key points that I wanted to blog about.
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SNA was Awful. SDN Isn’t Awful (Yet)
Back in the day, I wasn’t a SNA expert but that was because almost no one was using it. Oh sure, SNA was used by all the big companies to connect their TN5250 terminals to their mainframes using SDLC but back in 1995 there A) weren’t that many companies who could afford to operate a […]
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Cisco’s Has a New CEO as John Chambers stays on.
John Chambers steps down as CEO, remains Executive Chairman & Chairman of Board. Chuck Robbins, sales & operations executive, will become CEO suggesting not much will change. Some thoughts and speculation.
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Response: A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport – Chromium.org
Google is set to make QUIC the default protocol for web browsing to improve performance by using HTTP over UDP.
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Network Dictionary: Homoglyphs
A homoglyph is a text characters with shapes that identical or similar to each other. Common examples are zero/O and one/l . More complex Homoglyphs are derived from characters used in other languages that are a part of Unicode. In the following, this website converts english text “EtherealMind” into characters that looks similar but use completely different HTML […]
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