It's been a wonderful holiday season, full of family and friendship, but when the noise fades and the lights turn down, for me it's been a time for introspection and reflection on who I am today, who I hope to become and what I hope to acco
Win8 Touchscreen Ultrabook for the wife...check. Android 4.x tablets for the kids...check. But for me? All I want for Christmas is BYOD.
Last week's acquisitions of Cloupia and Gale technologies were a brilliant counter to the increasing power of Microsoft and VMware and provides tremendous insight into the future of IT.
Nearly 10 years ago, Harvard Business Review published the now infamous report, "IT Doesn't Matter." IT pros the world over were disgusted by the perceived inference; however for business leaders, this article and the principles it sha
Shortly after VMware/Nicira announcement, I was able to have a conversation with Nicira co-founder and 'father of SDN' Martin Casado about the hypervisor network and its impact on the future of networking.
Since the introduction of its hypervisor, VMware has been eating away, little by little, at the value Cisco products offer in the Data Center. With the introduction and growth of private clouds, increasing "co-opetition" between these tech
Cisco is trying to turn momentum to open the field of networking into its own private initiative and keep the networking industry locked into it’s mainframe-like state.
The afternoon speakers on the opening day of ONS had a tall shadow cast from the excellent morning keynotes, but they did not disappoint, first showcasing the rapid and succesful growth and significant use cases for SDN, and then presenting some sign
The 2nd ever Open Networking Summit got started with a bang this week, selling out a forum that was double the capacity of the previous conference. SDN popularity is exploding and the presentations from this industry-leading event were worth their we
