The industry is moving up the stack. We’re migrating from a focus on Layer 1 physical to Layer 7, applications. Software is king in the future of IT–applications and services are what matter. Cloud is what we’ve termed it for now, and when discussing cloud, open and standard are key discussions. To see the full article visit: http://www.networkcomputing.com/cloud-computing/240000933
Ignoring BYOD Spells Disaster!
Last week in a blog titled "BYOD–Bring Your Own Disaster," I urged caution and scope for BYOD projects. This week I’m playing devil’s advocate with myself. A conversation with Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) got me thinking of the consequences of ignoring BYOD. Let’s dive into the risk of burying your head…
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Intent Driven Architecture Part III: Policy Assurance
Here I am finally getting around to the third part of my blog on Intent Driven Architectures, but hey, what’s a year between friends. If you missed or forgot parts I and II the links are below: Intent Driven Architectures: WTF is Intent Intent Driven Architectures Part II: Policy Analytics…
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The Art of Pre-Sales
On a recent customer call being led by a vendor account manager and engineer I witnessed some key mistakes by the engineer as he presented the technology to the customer. None of the mistakes were glaring or show stopping but they definitely kept the conversation from having the value that…