In it’s New Year’s Eve email blast, SdxCentral’s tag subject was “Cisco’s eventful 2024”. I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but the phrase connects to a historical-philosophical concept “The Hero in History” by Sidney Hook. Hook differentiated between people who made things happen (“event-making”) and those things happened to (“eventful”), and I…
What’s in store for the cloud? That may be a hard question to answer because there’s a pretty significant gap between what’s currently happening in the cloud and what we think/hear is happening. Still, I’ve gotten comments from 167 enterprises in 2H24 that could shed some light on things. Some are direct views, and others…
What’s the asset of the future, the potential determinant of success for practically everyone in tech? No, it’s not AI. It’s not 5G or 6G or WiFi 7, nor is it fiber or quantum. What is it, then? Real estate. An astonishing number of critical network and IT assets have one common element—they need to…
There are plenty of reasons to get concerned, really concerned, about what’s going on in AI. There seems to be a growing disconnect between AI press releases and stories, and what enterprises are telling me. That disconnect seems linked, as is often the case, with the concept of “washing” announcements with mentions of new technology…
What happens when all those proverbial “low apples” are picked? Technology markets, and in fact most markets, are made up of prospects that vary considerably in terms of ease of access, return on investment, and other economic factors. The combination of attributes mean some are really attractive and should be targeted quickly, and others much…
Enterprises have long had a choice of vendors in the networking space, but for most the dominant players have been Cisco and Juniper. The former is undergoing a reorg, and the latter is being acquired (subject to approvals) by HPE. While I’m not hearing enterprises express worry about this (see my blog on this), there…
Most of us see debt as something to be avoided, so “technical debt” minimization has been a priority for development teams. Essentially, the term means an erosion in software quality caused by taking the expedient path, not taking enough time, or simple carelessness and errors. There’s also a growing interest in what many consider a…
What do AI and wireless have in common? Yeah, this is sort of a trick question, but most people probably respond with “hype”, and that’s true. What’s also true is that both have a kind of generational succession to them. In wireless, most remember 4G, know 5G is current, and 6G is next. AI succession…
Is it “everything old is new again”, or “everything new is a bad idea”? Whichever it is, it sure seems like a lot of hot new tech ideas are getting a harder second look these days. The cloud, AI, and microservices are all tech revolutions that are getting some serious questions asked about their value….
Are enterprises worried about their network equipment vendors’ health? Do they have something to worry about? What’s causing whatever is happening, and how might it change networking? All good questions, and ones we’ll try to answer here. There have been multiple stories about how things like the HPE/Juniper deal and the Cisco restructuring are making…