The Light Reading story on Verizon comments regarding cloud adoption by enterprises is yet another example of the issues that face a revolutionary development in an age of instant knowledge gratification. It’s a decent story, and it frames the cloud dilemma of our time. There is no question that the cloud is revolutionary, but there’s…
Out with the old, in with the new. Sounds like New Year’s Day, and so clearly inappropriate to the season in a calendar sense. It also works with networking, though, and we have a couple of the OWTOIWTN items in news today. First, financial sources are saying today that Juniper is dropping MobileNext, its architecture…
If you like hype, you love the cloud, and SDN, and now NFV. You also love big data and the Internet of things. I’m not saying that any of these things are total frauds, or even that some of them aren’t true revolutions, but the problem is that we’ve so papered over the value propositions…
If you’re a cloud fan, which I am in at least the sense that I believe there’s a cloud in everyone’s future, it’s been a mixed week for news. VMware has announced its Nicira-based NaaS platform aimed I think at cloud data centers, and the move has gained a lot of traction among the “anybody-but-Cisco”…
If you’re a cloud fan, which I am in at least the sense that I believe there’s a cloud in everyone’s future, it’s been a mixed week for news. VMware has announced its Nicira-based NaaS platform aimed I think at cloud data centers, and the move has gained a lot of traction among the “anybody-but-Cisco”…
Probably a lot of people, both now and in the future, are going to say that Steve Ballmer’s departure from Microsoft was “the end of an era”. Certainly in a management continuity sense that was true; Ballmer was Gates’ heir apparent after all, so he was a continuation of the original Microsoft. What’s not certain…
I’ve been reading a lot of commentary on network functions virtualization (NFV) and I’m sure that you all have been too. Most of it comes from sources who are not actively involved with NFV in any way, and since the NFV ISG’s work isn’t yet public it’s a bit hard for me to see how…
HP reported their numbers, and they were somewhat par for the tech earnings course this season, meaning they missed in revenue, met guidance on profits, and were tepid in their expectations for the coming year. The Street has been all over the place on HP stock since the call, but I guess the trend is…
HP is scheduled to report earnings tonight after the US markets close, and in keeping with my practice with Cisco, I’m going to focus today on what HP should be doing, uncluttered by the way the numbers fall. Again as with Cisco, I may blog a bit about what actually happened. HP is an IT…
Some of the latest data on TV providers seems to reinforce the notion that the video world is changing, and of course that’s true. The problem for TV delivery strategists is that it’s hard to tell just what factors are driving the changes, and without that key insight you can’t easily address the problems that…