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
Engineers Unplugged Episode 14: Application Affinity
I had the pleasure of speaking with Nils Swart (@nlnils) of Plexxi about applications and the network. You can watch the quick Engineer’s Unplugged below. Related posts: Focus on the Ball: The Application Cloud Success Factor: Rethink Application Development Application Centric Infrastructure – The Platform True Software Defined Networking (SDN)…
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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…
What's Stopping cloud?
So with everyone talking about cloud and all of the benefits of cloud computing why isn’t everyone diving in? The barriers to adoption can be classified into three major categories: Personal, Technical, and Business. Personal Reasons: Personal barriers to cloud adoption are broad ranging and can be quite difficult to…