What's disruptive innovation, and why does it matter to leaders in the C-suite? It's how the savvy non-conformist will target market opportunities. Ho...Jul. 1, 2017 03:00 PM EDT
The margins of cloud products like virtual machines are still in the 50% range. In essence, price drops are going to be a regular feature for the fore...
In its 2017 State of Malware Report, Malwarebytes Labs recorded a 267 percent increase in ransomware between January 2016 and November 2016, with over...Latest Blogs from SDN Journal
 The cloud’s massive success and the growing desire for Big Data analytics are just two of the factors that are making traditional storage architectures obsolete. Organizations cannot afford to scale bygone storage appliances. Even if they could, the time it would take is unacceptable i...Jul. 1, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,622 |
 Let’s rewind the clock a bit. A few years ago, object storage was the new technology that promised to replace file system in the secondary storage market. It would scale beyond the limits of file systems and deliver better costs. The trade-off would be lower ease-of-use with new protoc...Jun. 30, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,456 |
 A common development challenge is accurately scoping the amount of effort required when creating new applications. This can occur when an application’s requirements are first being designed, or even before. Since one of the most frequently-overlooked capabilities of service virtualizat...May. 5, 2017 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,954 |
 When it comes to wide area networking, large global enterprises have some unique challenges to ensure that networking capabilities keep up with their complex business requirements. The most obvious challenge is the sheer scale of WAN operations. A very large enterprise could have hundr...Apr. 21, 2017 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,951 |
 Welcome to the Cloud, Big Data, Software Defined, Bulk and Object Storage fundamentals page part of the objectstoragecenter.com micro site collection of resources. Software defined, Bulk, Cloud and Object Storage exist to support expanding and diverse application data demands. There ar...Mar. 17, 2017 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,355 |
 Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network and associated tradecraft are your skills, experiences, insight as well as tricks of the trade, profession and job function (read more about what is a data infrastructure here). This is the first of a two-part series exploring data infrast...Mar. 8, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,684 |
 Each enterprise - and perhaps even units within each enterprise - is determining the path to a proper mix of public and private cloud.
Implementing such a services-attuned architecture may be the most viable means to dynamically apportion applications and data support among and betwee...Feb. 8, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,966 |
 Enabling patient-doctor trust goes a long way in a provider’s ability to provide care. Trust is also critical for enabling network connections that are safe, to help secure health networks.
The healthcare industry is scrambling to shore up defenses as cyberattacks and breaches increas...Dec. 22, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,655 |
 In his session at Cloud Expo, Robert Cohen, an economist and senior fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, provideed economic scenarios that describe how the rapid adoption of software-defined everything including cloud services, SDDC and open networking will change GDP, industry g...Dec. 16, 2016 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,552 |
 Many IT organizations look to the private cloud to improve agility and simplify business operations. More and more are introducing converged and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions to support cloud initiatives and agile development practices. But there is too often a road block — l...Sep. 17, 2016 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,053 |
 Data centers have seen a lot of change in a short time. It used to be possible for organizations to run their service from a single data center and house their Domain Name Service (DNS) servers within it. It wasn’t an issue to have them in the same place, since if the data center went ...Aug. 19, 2016 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,168 |
 Opus Interactive adopted a software-defined storage approach to better support its thousands of customers.
We'll learn how scaling of customized IT infrastructure for a hosting organization in a multi-tenant environment benefits from flexibility of modern storage, unified management, ...Aug. 18, 2016 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,182 |
 Consider the following integration scenarios: Moving medical records between EMR systems; financial information between banking systems; HR information between ERP systems; and software development information between SDLC tools.
At first glance the approaches required for these integ...Jun. 25, 2016 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,191 |
 Panzura has announced the results of its “State of Manufacturing Cross Site-CAD Collaboration” survey conducted at SOLIDWORKS World 2016. The survey details the top challenges that manufacturing professionals face when working within Computer Aided Design (CAD)/Computer Aided Manufactu...Apr. 27, 2016 04:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,999 |
 This post is the first in a multi-part series based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did compliments of Servers Direct and Seagate that you can read in PDF form here. The focus is looking at the Servers Direct (www.serversdirect.com) converged Content Solution platforms with Seag...Apr. 26, 2016 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,765 |
 “Containers and microservices are both part of our own cloud platform architecture, especially containers,” explained Alex Yu, CEO & co-founder of SpeedyCloud, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff. “They are good stuff for rolling our new services, whi...Apr. 25, 2016 02:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,584 |
 Talari has announced two changes in its executive leadership team. Mark Masur, who currently serves as Talari Chairman of the Board, has taken over the responsibility of Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Emerick Woods, the company’s previous CEO. In addition, John Dickey, co-founder ...Apr. 15, 2016 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,236 |
 Enterprise consulting and system integration services provider ValueLabs has said it would work with Hootsuite to deliver solutions for managing social media campaigns, marketing and advertising.
Hootsuite is a widely used platform for managing social media, according to a ValueLabs s...Apr. 8, 2016 11:29 AM EDT Reads: 2,439 |
 If your website receives heavy traffic and you are hosted across multiple infrastructures across the world or you are using multiple CDNs, then you ought to use a DNS Load Balancer to reroute traffic for better performance.
While there are some large companies who create their own DNS...Mar. 19, 2016 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,141 |
 Scaling things seems like such a simple task, doesn’t it? Open a new checkout line. Call a new teller to the front. Hire another person.
But under the covers in technology land, where networking standards rule the roost, it really isn’t as simple as just adding another “X”. Oh, we tr...Mar. 16, 2016 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,663 |
 Your business relies on your applications and your employees to stay in business. Whether you develop apps or manage business critical apps that help fuel your business, what happens when users experience sluggish performance? You and all technical teams across the organization – appli...Feb. 29, 2016 07:45 PM EST Reads: 5,947 |
 At Plexxi we're building a simply better network for public and private cloud environments and next generation service providers. The next era of IT requires support for data center agility, scale-out applications, converged infrastructure, Big Data analytics and integrated security ov...Feb. 23, 2016 09:00 PM EST Reads: 719 |
 Network architectures are in the midst of a massive transformation. Not too long ago, traditional network designs began to strain under increased demand for compute and storage. This saw the advent of server and storage virtualization, giving organizations on-demand access to the resou...Feb. 7, 2016 01:45 PM EST Reads: 549 |
 At the heart of the Cloud Native model is a microservices application architecture, and applying this to a telco SDN scenario offers enormous opportunity for product innovation and competitive advantage.
For example in the ETSI NFV Ecosystem white paper they describe one of the prod...Feb. 6, 2016 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,879 |
 SDN / NFV may not be new with next gen telcos and data centers but by 2016 it is certainly going to be the new beast in DevOps space. It's a multi-million dollar virgin market, so it's not only those traditional OEMs are in the fray even the DB companies will be entering this new marke...Feb. 1, 2016 03:15 PM EST Reads: 2,526 |
 A major market for telcos will be the enterprise adoption of SDN. They will be able to harness the SDN/NFV innovations from the telco industry, and apply the technologies within their data centres, as well as using new telco services that they enable.
As SearchDataCenter describes NFV...Jan. 25, 2016 03:15 PM EST Reads: 1,818 |
 Cloud has become an extension of today’s enterprise and the traditional perimeter has long disappeared. Increasing business requirements for agility and flexibility make the cloud-extended enterprise ideal for a workforce that works anywhere, anytime and any place. This is especially t...Dec. 29, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 6,091 |
 Enterprise networks have become complex. They were designed and deployed to meet a specific set of business requirements at a specific point in time. Configuration modifications were rare, and manual or semi-automated processes together with strict change control procedures were enough...Nov. 6, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,503 |
 Agema Systems, a provider of high performance Next-Gen Open Networking platform, invites network and virtualization professionals to attend Agema portfolio of 1G/10G/25G/40G and 100G product introduction at Cloud Expo® 2015, November 3-5 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
Agema wil...Nov. 3, 2015 11:15 AM EST Reads: 3,016 |
 F5 and Nutanix partner to bring the power of invisible infrastructure and software-defined application servers to critical enterprise application. Joint customers benefit from improved availability, scalability, performance, and security enabled through orchestration, management, and a...Oct. 26, 2015 12:53 PM EDT Reads: 813 |
 For all the buzz-words and high-flying markets out there today, the truth of the matter is that at this point in time, IT is driven by speed. How fast can I spin up an image? How fast can I integrate the changes in my app? How fast can I test prior to deployment? How fast can I go from...Oct. 7, 2015 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,736 |
 Containers allow for compute processes to be isolated from each other and portable, but not all applications and solutions are run only in the compute layer; many require the use of some storage. Deployment of software-defined storage can be the first step in this evolution, providing ...Sep. 25, 2015 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,570 |
 There’s really an unlimited number of ways in which programmability in the network (data path scripting) can solve problems, address risk, and simplify architectures. In the area of DevOps it can be used to facilitate continuous delivery (CD) initiatives by supporting the implementatio...Sep. 1, 2015 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,326 |
 Over the last few years we’ve seen just about every part of the data centre move towards virtualization and software. First we virtualized desktops, then storage, then even our security tools. So when the idea of Software Defined Networking (SDN) started being floated around, it wasn’t...Aug. 28, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,130 |
 Most of the time when we think about (and honestly, talk about) “programmability” of app services (in the network) we end up illustrating its potential by using load balancing or perhaps app security. That’s because the possibilities seem endless for those services, with countless exa...Aug. 11, 2015 03:58 AM EDT Reads: 1,238 |
 Jared Cook, VMware’s Lead Strategic Architect, Office of the CTO, visits #F5Agility15 and shares how F5 and VMware solutions can be used together in an orchestrated fashion to enable customers to spin up applications on-demand, and provision F5 software defined application services tho...Aug. 6, 2015 07:40 AM EDT Reads: 776 |
 Services providers have traditionally organized the management and operation of different technologies into several teams with very specific domain knowledge. These teams have been staffed with specialists looking after routing, network services, servers, virtualization, storage area n...Aug. 5, 2015 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,936 |
 "ProfitBricks was founded in 2010 and we are the painless cloud - and we are also the Infrastructure as a Service 2.0 company," noted Achim Weiss, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of ProfitBricks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th Cloud Expo, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javit...Jul. 30, 2015 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,254 |
 The best of virtualization and the best of hardware integration are creating the preferred on-ramps to the cloud.
IT organizations are well enamored of virtualization. They are so into the trend that many have more than 80 percent of their server workloads virtualized. They like hybri...Jul. 28, 2015 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,304 |
 If you’re curious about learning the difference between Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and how they relate, here’s a good article for you. I've written a quick summary.Jul. 24, 2015 03:52 PM EDT Reads: 1,272 |
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