SDN, or software-defined networking, is taking over the world—or at least if you listened to the marketers for the main purveyors of SDN and its cousin SD-WAN, you would think so. In fact, if you just listened to the marketers, you would be feeling pretty inadequate with your local data center; your physical network with …
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Unplanned Obsolescence – Digital Lifespan
Recently, the xkcd comic (https://xkcd.com/1909/) mentioned digital lifespan with a pithy comment about digital resources disappearing quickly. This is quite prevalent in the project to restore NASA records from Apollo missions, such as LOIRP. NASA participated in unplanned obsolescence as well as misunderstanding the value of its data. It picked data formats that were not …
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Expectations of Acceleration in 2018
VMware’s near term demand continues to be strong and is actually currently characterized as trending at the high end of the company’s financial quarter to date.
Multi-Hypervisor Hyperconverged with Maxta
Product progression is always interesting to see. In particular, I like to see products that grew up around one platform developing into adjacent platforms. Early hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) products usually only supported one hypervisor—most commonly, vSphere, as VMware dominated data center virtualization. But vSphere isn’t the only hypervisor in town, and recently, we have seen …
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It Is Time that IoT Was Called by Its Real Name: the Intelligent Edge
The Internet of Things (IoT)—or, according to Cisco, the “Internet of Everything”—is starting to really heat up. We are finally seeing real use cases: automation in Australian mining, American farming, and the wineries of Spain; sensors with real-time monitoring; decision-making processing on driverless cars; and facial recognition software in phones and computers (queue the jokes about …
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IT Topics to Watch for in 2018
Which IT topics should we be keeping an eye out for in 2018? I expect network, XaaS, and services to be areas of particular interest. This article focuses on the reported and estimated earnings in these respective areas.