Tom Nolle
Tom Nolle is president of CIMI Corporation, a strategic consulting firm located in Voorhees, New Jersey. He has been consulted on projects in banking, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, and publishing; helped develop network standards; and consults on everything from LANs to satellite communications. Tom is know for a breezy style of speaking and writing, a dedication to the truth, and his "Southern Man" hat!
MWC analysis: Conditions are ripe for cloud providers to drive faster network services.
Network operators need help finding applications that demand fast data delivery in order to justify infrastructure investment.
3 things network pros need to tell developers about why the network matters
Avoid over-reliance on costly user-to-cloud and user-to-data-center links to create better performing apps.
Why network pros need a seat at the application-planning table
Component-based applications can have a significant bad impact on cloud costs and app performance that network pros could head off if consulted during the design phase.
A new role for network pros: application-flow architect
Networking teams need a say in architecting cloud-based applications from the outset to assure it’s even possible for the network and cloud services to adequately support the apps.
Cloud providers should unify virtual networking and SD-WAN
Enterprises need a single networking model that can support SD-WAN and virtual networking in order to get the most out of their cloud resources.
Looking ahead to the network technologies of 2023
Virtual networking will drive NaaS evolution, and cloud-hosted security options will explode.
How to reduce 2023 network costs: The cloud
Enterprises that used cloud networking as part of their network strategy cut network costs 5% to 50%
Data-center requirements should drive network architecture
Accept that the cloud is now part of the data center and needs to be incorporated in a low-latency mesh that supports modern applications.
Networking for remote work puts the emphasis on people, not sites
Remote work and the cloud have taught us to focus on connecting people to the applications and information resources they need rather than focus on pure site-connectivity goals.
How SASE might improve worker productivity and make CFOs happy
SASE can deliver needed information for more workers and for less cost than MPLS VPNs providing comparable connectivity.
Network availability: Are you your own worst enemy?
As network complexity grows, so does the complexity of dealing with it effectively.