In any enterprise architecture, there are a lot of “middle boxes”. I’m talking about your load balancers, application delivery controllers, firewalls, NAT devices, proxy servers, and increasingly common these days, WANOp devices. These devices sit between the network and an end host and operate more or less transparently. While prevalent, middle boxes are really getting [...]
Networkworld/Infoworld published a list of 10 Emerging Enterprise Technologies of 2009. It’s a prediction list, which is always interesting to revisit in a few years. All of these technologies are in use, but most are not widely adopted, they were chosen because Infoworld believes in each technology’s potential for “enormous impact in the enterprise for [...]
So after the market closed yesterday, HP announced its acquisition of 3Com Corporation for $2.7 billion. This is obviously huge news in the networking industry, and a lot of experts have already voiced their opinions.
Majority of the industry watchers seem to agree that this acquisition is primarily for 3Com’s reach into the China market, and [...]
WANOp is increasing popular these days and sometimes gets talked about like it’s a panacea to solving performance problems. The reality is WANOp is not well suited to ease all performance pains. In some instances, WANOp can actually break things. Think about it: WANOp devices like those from Riverbed are designed to accelerate certain protocols, [...]
We were sitting around the video conferencing table for a company all-hands meeting. Raja recounted a story of a recent customer meeting, arranged by a channel partner, it had to be really short to squeeze into this prospect’s schedule. 10 minutes into his allotted 15 minutes, the prospect interrupts, “I get it, you’re like so-and-so, [...]