Recession-induced Hype?
Last week I blogged about Chambers comments on innovation being the key to emerging from a recession. I just read his Harvard Business Review interview about Cisco and noted: “Today, a market...
View ArticleAll Eyes on Cisco Tomorrow
I’ve spent plenty of inches here talking about the recession, network infrastructure and increasing demands on computer networks. This month in the Harvard Business Review Cisco is predicting 14...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the End of Static Infrastructure
Networks are connecting individuals, systems and devices at an accelerating rate; this trend won’t be slowed by a wobbly economy or the chants of gloomy protagonists. We are entering the age of...
View ArticleThe CIO SHELL GAME
TCP/IP is continuing to spread and connect to more endpoints; Cisco has predicted that the network will connect 14 billion devices by 2010. This level of connectivity promises to make the network even...
View ArticleIT’s Biggest Hope: Dynamic Network Infrastructure
The “speeds and feeds” mantra of the networking industry is about to be replaced by a new “dynamic infrastructure” mantra; and Cisco, Infoblox and F5 Networks are taking the lead in shaping this new...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Networks
Cloud computing and virtualization are driving new forms of IT, new requirements for vendors and new career possibilities. Today more than ever, legacy tools, investments and tactics are introducing...
View ArticleHere Comes the Intercloud
I don’t know who coined the “intercloud” term, but it is a big step forward in defining the enterprise cloud endgame. See this Cisco blog and recent intercloud preso. As sexy and compelling an idea...
View ArticleTodays Networks Resemble Yesterday’s Factories
Many of today’s large enterprise networks are burning cash and are overly dependent upon layers of manual processes (like DNS, DHCP and IPAM for starters) to stay available and secure. Networks were...
View ArticleCloud Computing, Virtualization and IT Diseconomies
Cloud computing has become a reality, yet the hype surrounding cloud has started to exceed the laws of physics and economics. The robust cloud (of all software on demand that will replace the...
View ArticleRecession-Induced Network Innovation
I just watched Cisco’s John Chambers “Can IT Strengthen the Economy?” interview at the recent Gartner conference just released at ZDNet. John clearly sees innovation as the way out. The network is...
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