Networking Is A Hot Mess
A few weeks ago, Cisco announced plans for its "spin-in" investment, Insieme Networks: The newest next-generation data center network called, Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).This new offering...
View ArticleLeading Networking Companies Are Helping Improve Your Business’ Customer...
Ten years ago, if I had stood up in front of IT professionals and said that their company would allow employees to bring their own devices to work in lieu of corporate-owned devices, I would have been...
View ArticleThe Flash Blindness Caused By SDN Hype Keeps Many From Seeing Cisco's Growth...
Cisco released its 1st quarter financial statement last week, and the numbers weren't pretty. But this shouldn't surprise too many, since the company warned the financial community that the revenue...
View ArticleRun, Don’t Walk, If The First Thing You Hear From Your Network Vendor Is...
If a network vendor representative starts off with any of these three phrases -- software-defined networking (SDN),bring-your-own-device (BYOD), or lower total cost of ownership (TCO) -- I would ask...
View ArticleWatch Out! Networking Professionals Can Be Fired For Buying The Market Leader
The recent business articles about customers screaming for change, such as Bloomberg's recently published article about Goldman Sachs' CIO threatening Cisco, conjures up images of Dee Snider busting...
View ArticleWLAN Vendors Differentiate By Business Value And Market Focus, Not Technology
Forrester brought the wireless Forrester Wave™ back from the grave after an end-of-life announcement of it in 2007. Too many wireless innovations and changes in the vendor landscape have emerged not to...
View ArticleWhite Box Mania Distracts Everyone And Wreaks Havoc On Investments
I'm getting inundated with briefing requests from vendors either coming out with their own white box offerings or somehow supporting the white box market. While white box network solutions provide...
View ArticleIt Isn’t Over Till The Customer Sings (at ONUG)
Wow. Certain networking vendors have started to declare they are winners, while others say software defined network (SDN) is over. All I have to say (in my best George Takei voice) is, "Oh, my!" I'm...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between white-box, bare-metal, branded bare-metal, and...
I'm getting a lot calls from clients who are using "white box" and "bare metal" interchangeably when discussing network switches. It might not seem like a big deal, but it is when customers are trying...
View ArticleTake Investment Protection Off Your List Of Evaluation Criteria
Historically I have not been a big fan of Interop for a variety of reasons. However Greg Ferro, George Stefanick, Ivan Pepelnjak, and Harvard Business Review IT Director Ken Griffin -- to name a few --...
View ArticleHouston We Have A Problem . . . In The Networking Community
I noticed an interesting phenomenon at Interop which sparked my theory on new network technologies. New network technology maturity and its adoption correlate directly to the five stages of loss: 1)...
View ArticleThe Old Axiom "No One Gets Fired For Buying [X]" Should Be Laid To Rest
I just hung up the phone and can't stop shaking my head. This was the second call this week from an organization looking for a workaround to deal with the shortcomings of a networking component. Taking...
View ArticleThe Flash Blindness Caused By SDN Hype Keeps Many From Seeing Cisco’s Growth...
Cisco released its 1st quarter financial statement last week, and the numbers weren’t pretty. But this shouldn’t surprise too many, since the company warned the financial community that the revenue...
View ArticleRun, Don’t Walk, If The First Thing You Hear From Your Network Vendor Is...
If a network vendor representative starts off with any of these three phrases — software-defined networking (SDN),bring-your-own-device (BYOD), or lower total cost of ownership (TCO) — I would ask them...
View ArticleWatch Out! Networking Professionals Can Be Fired For Buying The Market Leader
The recent business articles about customers screaming for change, such as Bloomberg’s recently published article about Goldman Sachs’ CIO threatening Cisco, conjures up images of Dee Snider busting...
View ArticleWLAN Vendors Differentiate By Business Value And Market Focus, Not Technology
Forrester brought the wireless Forrester Wave™ back from the grave after an end-of-life announcement of it in 2007. Too many wireless innovations and changes in the vendor landscape have emerged not to...
View ArticleWhite Box Mania Distracts Everyone And Wreaks Havoc On Investments
I’m getting inundated with briefing requests from vendors either coming out with their own white box offerings or somehow supporting the white box market. While white box network solutions provide...
View ArticleIt Isn’t Over Till The Customer Sings (at ONUG)
Wow. Certain networking vendors have started to declare they are winners, while others say software defined network (SDN) is over. All I have to say (in my best George Takei voice) is, “Oh, my!” I’m...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between white-box, bare-metal, branded bare-metal, and...
I’m getting a lot calls from clients who are using “white box” and “bare metal” interchangeably when discussing network switches. It might not seem like a big deal, but it is when customers are trying...
View ArticleTake Investment Protection Off Your List Of Evaluation Criteria
Historically I have not been a big fan of Interop for a variety of reasons. However Greg Ferro, George Stefanick, Ivan Pepelnjak, and Harvard Business Review IT Director Ken Griffin — to name a few —...
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