Keep Your Friends Close And Your Enemies Closer
The concept of co-opetition — the combination of competition and cooperation — doesn’t go back quite as far as 400 BC when China’s Sun-tzu made his famous statement about friends and enemies, but it...
View ArticleStop the (Networking) World — I Want to Get Off
For the networking industry, things continue to get interesting, and for many, stopping this unrelenting change — or giving up — may be an attractive (if unrealistic) option. Between mobility, the...
View ArticleMobile WAN Optimization is Overrated
The WAN optimization market has gone through significant growth over the past decade. It’s gone from a niche technology that not many companies actually knew about to something that many network...
View ArticleNetworking in the Year of the Horse
Happy New Year to everyone. The Chinese New Year on 31st January brings in the Year of the Horse — is this analogous with what we can expect to happen in the networking world through the rest of the...
View ArticleCIO vs CMO? That Boat’s Already Sailed!
In his recent commentary on the CXO vs CIO debate, Jim Metzler said this is a “gut check time” for CIOs. “CIOs absolutely must create a strategy that enables their organization to take a leadership...
View ArticleVirtual Appliances Going Mainstream In The Data Center
VMware, EMC’s majority-owned virtualization business, has been pushing the software-defined data center for close to two years, but while SDDC still remains more of a concept than a reality, virtual...
View ArticleMore Education Is Needed to Move the SDN Needle
As an analyst, it seems like I’ve been talking about SDNs forever. It’s hard to have a conversation with anyone about anything in networking without “SDN” popping up. Every time I speak on the topic,...
View ArticleHardware: Beginning of the End, or End of the Beginning?
In a recent post here on WANSpeak, Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst at ZK Research, stated that he has evolved from trying to make the case that a software-defined WAN is a good alternative to a...
View ArticleStaying On Top Of The SDN Heap
It’s a good news/bad news situation for Cisco, according to a couple of new reports. The good news is that Cisco still dominates the networking industry, showing its heels to the more than 100 vendors...
View ArticleIT’s ALL About Business Outcomes And Customer First
I’ve been living out of a suitcase for the past few weeks, in the midst of a five-vendor-conference road trip, and while the vendors ranged from IBM (Infrastructure Matters) to Unisys (Services Matter...
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