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Greg Ness is senior director of Infoblox (http://www.infoblox.com/). He was previously the vice president of marketing at Blue Lane Technologies and a marketing executive at Juniper Networks, Redline Networks, IntruVert Networks, ShoreTel, Visa International and Verizon. At Redline he helped to... More
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  • IT's Groovy Time Flashback
    As virtualization-lite creates swarms of increasingly dense VLANs in the data center, the IT industry appears to be responding by consolidating into coalitions, including Arcadia (EMC, VMW, and CSCO); HP/COMS; and IBM/JNPR. Each coalition will likely produce its own “branded container” dedicated to the simplification and tactical orchestration of growing VLAN empires.
     
    This consolidation takes us back to the 70s when IBM and the BUNCH offered ever-shrinking choices to smocked IT decision makers. Years later the network evolved and disrupted the consolidation with new equipment categories, new solutions and emergent demands soon addressed by a mushrooming venture capital industry and hordes of tech entrepreneurs.
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    Tags: CSCO, VMW, EMC, HPQ, COMS, IBM, JNPR, Networking, Software
    Nov 16 07:06 pm | Link | Comment!
  • The Real Time Infrastructure Ultimatum
    For months the infrastructure 2.0 blog has talked about the automation of IT from a network perspective, including the automation of the network itself. While few may question the need for network automation most businesses today still run their networks like they ran their “supply chains” decades ago, before the network.
     
    This great irony is about to change. Here’s why:
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    Tags: CSCO, FFIV, GOOG, AMZN
    Nov 05 07:42 pm | Link | Comment!
  • IT: Innovate or Consumerize
    A recent article by Larry Dignan about how IT has fallen behind the Tech Curve laments how slow and cumbersome enterprise IT has become relative to consumerized technologies. Larry covered a session at the recent Gartner Symposium and was advised by Gartner analysts that IT pros want the world to proceed in an orderly fashion and are weighed down by the legacy of previous choices. That’s a fair statement.
     
    Gartner’s solution, or at least that posed by analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin is for IT to simply let users buy their own gear:
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    Tags: CSCO, VMW, FFIV, IBM, JNPR
    Oct 22 04:00 pm | Link | Comment!
  • Tech Outlook: Timing is Everything
    As infrastructure 2.0 is turned on it will represent an irreversible transformation in the way IT services are delivered. The timing of product releases, investments and deployments could make all the difference for a range of companies and organizations. 
     
    Those who could be impacted include the cloud vendors (including Google, Amazon, Rackspace and Savvis), the virtualization vendors (VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix) and the network equipment vendors (including Cisco, HP, Juniper, F5, Brocade and Extreme Networks).
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    Tags: GOOG, AMZN, RAX, SVVS, VMW, MSFT, CTXS, CSCO, HPQ, JNPR, FFIV, BRCD, EXTR
    Oct 14 01:14 pm | Link | Comment!
  • Preparing for a "Just in Time" IT Industry
    In a matter of decades we watched the data network eliminate “middlemen” and arcane practices that had been around for centuries, only to see these practices re-emerge at the core of the network. Understanding this irony is pivotal to understanding what is about to take place within the network and its effect on the evolution of IT.
     
    World history is filled with examples of the triumph of mobility and economy, and the similar triumph of automation over manual labor. The IT industry is no different. The fortunes of network equipment vendors will ride on how well they address a critical shift in thinking that has been accelerated by the rise of virtualization.
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    Tags: CSCO, VMW, MSFT, CTXS
    Sep 30 07:43 pm | Link | Comment!
  • Networks and Moving Data Centers
    As Cisco, HP, Juniper, F5, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others circle the data center field of battle, one strategic ridge of high ground is in network automation, or the ability to move (or adjust/provision) IT assets at the push of a button without the need for extensive manual intervention.   That manual intervention accounts for a sizable portion of the costs, risks and compromises of today’s static networks.
     
    Several of these companies have already made notable announcements in 2009, yet none have yet to let the virtualization genie out of the VLAN bottle completely. When they do, watch out for a new wave of IT innovation.
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    Tags: CSCO, HPQ, JNPR, FFIV, AMZN, MSFT, GOOG
    Sep 28 08:38 pm | Link | Comment!
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