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...

Cambrian Cloud Explosions Coming

or... the hardware becomes a comoditized compute bedrock of low cost servers and switches rented from a datacenter in central Texas and the software now demands the lions share of Capex as it does what you just described.

The Tipping Point for Network Automation

What this means of course is that automation at the network layer is done before it gets started as the cloud provider will do that with his labor costs baked into the price of a VM. The next big thing will be automating the care an feeding of a vast sea of VMs. Fortunately the technology lends itself to this. It will be the small virtual data center and data center automation vendors who take the day here.

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".