The LAN has left the Building

In 1973, Ethernet was invented, and went from 4Mbp/s to 10Gbp/s in 30 years. But it’s the last 5 years that will revolutionise the communications market. 
Today’s Enterprises are consuming megabits at an alarming rate simply to meet the demands of today’s server centric applications but this appetite is about to rocket with the adoption of [...]

Long Range Forecast: It’s getting Cloudy with Storms.

Last week I was discussing the merits of a Cloud based infrastructure with a prospect and he jokingly asked me for a “Long Term Weather Forecast”,  I thought it was a joke but it soon became apparent that some insight into the coming Years would help them choose their wardrobe for the coming seasons.  So [...]

The Cloud is Very Very Wooly…..

It’s all Cloud, SaaS, Cloud, SaaS…
But to someone who has always started  a topology workshop by drawing a “Welsh Lover ” in the middle of the whiteboard when discussing ICT architecture with customers it’s not a surprise.  What’s is a surprise, is the way the “The Cloud” is being used by every provider, be they Network, Application [...]

It’s all about the Benjamins…….. what can a Cloud infrastructure do for your wallet…

is the best quote yet I have heard about why Enterprises should move to a Cloud infrastructure  The best bit, it was said by Andy Bechtolsheim the Chairman of Arista Networks and Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems…is he’s not alone, the Analysts agree, IDC predicts that spend on Cloud based services will be 6x that of [...]

Move your Data to the Network, Not your Network to the Data

The Enterprise CIO now understands the value of new world Cloud based applications, so why are they still installing old world network topologies to deliver these?  As many companies start to build their own Cloud infrastructures they are hindered by low speed and high latency environments that can not meet the demands of today’s high [...]