You’ll be happy to know that a veteran VC believes that cloud computing is here to stay. Given that I’ve blogged about issues emerging in cloud computing, you might think I’d be rebutting this view. Not so; I’ve never suggested that cloud computing would go away, but I have said that “everything will move to…
What’s the difference between “orchestration” and “lifecycle automation” in applications and services? I guess it’s not surprising that there should be confusion here, given that we tend to conflate terms in tech all the time as part of a desire to reduce technical details and the size of stories in tech media. Then there’s the…
What impact does overall economic uncertainty have on network buyers? That’s quickly becoming a burning question as we navigate through almost-unprecedented inflation, volatile stocks, and a lot of unfavorable stories in the media. The answer, as you might expect, is pretty complicated. My own work with enterprises suggests that very few are cutting spending for…
In a month, we’ll hit the start of what’s traditionally been a fall technology planning period that ends mid-November. Enterprises are a bit loose with regard to formal planning (I’ll provide my impression of their views next week), but the network operators have generally been fairly consistent in using this cycle to lay out the…
I’ve posted some podcasts on my TMT Advisor site, and I’m inviting followers and other interested parties to check them out for content, format, length, and so forth. You can comment on them through LinkedIn, message or email me, or whatever format you’re comfortable with. Remember that I’m trying to decide if the podcast approach…
I’ve been an advocate of virtual networking for both enterprises and network operators, with a special focus on SD-WAN. What’s really important, though, is the “virtual networking” antecedent, and I think that a reunion of virtual network technology and SD-WAN is coming. The driver is likely the cloud, and the instrument of change may be…
Ancient Romans didn’t have computers or networks, but I’d bet that if they did, we’d see “In abstractione simplicitatis” graven on their monuments; “In abstraction, simplicity”. We’ve been taking advantage of that principle, though often implicitly rather than explicitly, since the dawn of computing, and going forward it may well be that our ability to…
Most network operators have their hopes pinned on 5G and IoT, and it’s already clear that a lot of these hopes will be dashed simply because both concepts have been over-hyped. Now, to make matters worse, there’s a growing concern that the implementation of 5G, and support for IoT applications, may have created a significant…
Cable companies offered TV from the first, and were also among the first to offer broadband Internet. Now there are indicators that they’ll be separating the two. Comcast is about to go live with its Xfinity Stream service, which will be available on Roku and Amazon streaming devices and on some TVs, with other platforms…
Amazon’s decision to buy iRobot, the company that makes the popular Roomba robotic vacuum, has stirred a lot of speculation, ranging from some solid business questions to the expected speculation that this is just the latest round in the effort to have robots take over the world. Are robots poised to overtake AI as the…