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| | Heavy Lies the Crown: Apple's Mobile Success Puts it on Thin Security Ice
Last week, I was hanging out with my friend Steve, who is a professional digital cinematographer and long-time Apple Macintosh user. We were talking about how great a piece of hardware the iPhone 4S is, when there was a pregnant pause in conversation before he asked me, “So why did this Flashback thing happen?” Read more
Thu, 17 May 2012 14:10:55 +0000 |
| | Tibco And LogLogic: An Interesting and Revealing Acquisition
Over the past few years, a number of independent Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) vendors were acquired by bigger players. In late 2010, HP scooped up market leader ArcSight for $1.5 billion. Last year, McAfee purchased Nitro Security while IBM acquired Q1 Labs. Read more
Wed, 16 May 2012 18:46:04 +0000 |
| | The Four Lies of Networking
Big Data and networking in general are all about numbers and statistics. We talk about our Petabytes of data, the number of packets per second and the Mbytes replicated in an hour. We want to know about the uptime percentages of our services and the time to repair on our circuits. We’re sold on loss ratios and round trip times. Read more
Wed, 16 May 2012 13:34:05 +0000 |
| | Q4 challenges not a downturn, Cisco CEO says
After marked improvement in its business following the wrenching restructuring and "reinvention" Cisco's gone though over the past year, the company - and perhaps the industry - are not out of the woods yet. Read more
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:13:55 +0000 |
| | Warrior keynote on Cisco COPE
Implementing security policies into the network based on identity and other application and user awareness parameters will drive network programmability, with network-based APIs and customer-specific algorithms, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said last week during her Interop keynote address. Read more
Tue, 15 May 2012 20:24:27 +0000 |
| | Final Thoughts About Interop
Well I've been out of Las Vegas for several days now so I've had time to adjust back to normal society and reflect a bit more on Interop2012. My colleague Bob "LAN" Laliberte met with nearly everyone in the industry and while I don't remember every encounter, here are a few final thoughts: Read more
Tue, 15 May 2012 14:21:16 +0000 |
| | Finding your TV shows on the Internet
It seems to me some days like the media companies want their own Internet TV subsidiaries to fail. Take, for example, the simple task of finding the show you want. DVRs manage it, TV Guide managed it when the only way we got to watch TV was by using rabbit ears. But finding the shows you want from Hulu Plus, iTunes, or Netflix can be a major pain in the rump. Read more
Mon, 14 May 2012 00:13:51 +0000 |
| | Cisco's not on board, but is Shortest Path Bridging winning?
Is Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) winning the data center fabric standards battle? One could have walked away from Interop 2012 with that impression, given the level of interest in it during a conference session and the production implementations that were discussed at the show. Read more
Fri, 11 May 2012 15:20:36 +0000 |
| | WAN Virtualization is the next-generation complement to WAN Optimization
Fellow Network World blogger Zeus Kerravala, wrote an interesting post in his Network World blog last month about the need for a different type of WAN Optimization from branch to the cloud. Read more
Fri, 11 May 2012 15:06:36 +0000 |
| | Best of Interop Awards called out for product no-show
This blog below was sent to me in email. While I was not going to write about it, I am glad someone else called out the awards. The Best of Interop Awards are a great thing in Las Vegas and companies revel in winning or getting just nominated. But there are some problems with them that need to be fixed. Read more
Fri, 11 May 2012 02:03:29 +0000 |
| | Are they a contender or pretender? Can Huawei survive in North America?
As everyone knows Huawei tried to make a big splash at Interop with a booth to rival Cisco's booth, matter of fact they were side by side on the Interop floor. But the question was how did they do and will they make it in North America? Read more
Thu, 10 May 2012 20:08:57 +0000 |
| | All Things Interop Part 1
I'm here in Las Vegas wrapping up Interop 2012. I now understand why Hunter S. Thompson binged on alcohol and narcotics when visiting this town -- you need these substances to create the illusion that this town is the least bit palatable.
Aside from the Sin City aspect, Interop was eventful and the industry seems to be in good shape. A few thoughts: Read more
Thu, 10 May 2012 16:28:01 +0000 |
| | Are you Touchy About your Appliances?
Us guys, we like our things – our cars, computers, gadgets, you name it. We like tangible stuff that we can touch and hold, none of this touchy, feely stuff. So what’s the deal then with the future of our network gear? Are we destined for “manly” physical appliances or are we going for those “pansy” virtual appliances? Read more
Thu, 10 May 2012 15:00:16 +0000 |
| | It’s time for Interop to go back to the future
In the movie “Back to the Future,” Dr. Emmit Brown built a Delorean-based time machine that when the “flux capacitor” was powered with 1.21 gigawatts (pronounced jig-a-watts in the movie), it would allow someone to go back in time (or ahead). I just got back from this year’s Interop conference and it started me thinking about the past. So let’s set the old time machine to the spring of...
Thu, 10 May 2012 14:15:23 +0000 |
| | What a Psychopath Can Teach Us About Information Security
In David Mamet’s 1992 film “Glengarry Glen Ross,” Alec Baldwin’s character Blake – sent by the firm’s owners Mitch and Murray to lay down some tough love on the salesmen at a remote office of their real estate agency – uses as one of his motivational tools the acronym “AIDA.” It stands for “Attention, Interest, Decision, Action” and it has a lot to teach us about how information...
Thu, 10 May 2012 13:49:41 +0000 |
| | Communities can be the driving 'Force' for sustainable customer value
In the original Star Wars movie, Obi Wan, aka “Ben,” Kenobi described the force as something that surrounds us and binds us all together. Those who believe in the Force can use its power to do things that some might consider impossible. The key to its power is belief in it. Read more
Wed, 09 May 2012 14:09:57 +0000 |
| | How will Cisco COPE with SDNs?
Cisco's got a software-defined networking (SDN) architecture but it won't say much about it. SDNs are a hot topic industrywide with the promise of abstracting the physical network infrastructure from control of it, enabling more adaptability for things like cloud computing and easier feature extension. Read more
Wed, 09 May 2012 06:34:38 +0000 |
| | Cloud up there with root canal, Cisco study finds
More than one-third of IT decision makers would rather get a root canal, dig a ditch, or do their own taxes than address network challenges associated with public or private cloud deployments. So says a Cisco survey released at Interop this week. Read more
Wed, 09 May 2012 06:20:54 +0000 |
| | The 2012 Best of Interop Award Winners
The Best of Interop Award winners were announced this morning. Below is a list of the winners. I would like to extend my congratulations to all the award winners and look forward to seeing all of the products live on the Interop floor.
The 2012 Best of Interop Awards winners in each category are: Read more
Wed, 09 May 2012 00:14:21 +0000 |
| | Made in the USA, does it mean anything to executives?
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Tue, 08 May 2012 22:05:30 +0000 |