Phil Dewey

Virtualization: Expect Technology to Cross the Chasm Within Two Years

More idiotic blather from a wanna be Cisco acquisition. Motion is a small part of the issue. Sprawl is THE issue. Think 10000 servers are a challenge to manage? 1000 switches and routers got you swimming in log data? Try wrangling 80000 VMs on the same network. Current tools have not even scratched the surface of being able to handle how this much stuff gets managed. The VLAN is not the problem, the stuff riding on it is going the be a Tsunami...

Will Virtualization Undermine Network Equipment Vendors?

Comparing VOIP's impact on the network to Virtualization is not valid. VOIP put new, real time stresses on the network. Virtualization removes them from the LAN and puts them potentially on the WAN. The idea that there will be a valid use case for moving a VM across a wide distance is goofy (much less a running VM). Data will move the, VMs will stay where they are. Taking advantage of cheaper compute resources elsewhere will mean getting a COPY of a VM to materialize at the lowest cost facility and the data there to use it.
One won't move a VM but rather a description of it, a formula of how to construct it and the data it needs to do it's job.

Cloud Wars Are on the Horizon

Greg, who do you think will be the acquired in this process?

Chambers Is Right: The Recession Will Drive Tech Innovation

If it's not obvious now it soon will be, managing a large, rapidly growing, heterogeneous, dynamic IT infrastructure is not possible. Period. Cisco has spent decades and millions trying to build intelligent network management, putting more "intelligence" into the network, yada, yada, yada. It won't work. Ever. This is why Cloud Computing will emerge as the only cost effective solution for what the marketing folks are calling "Infrastructure 2.0".