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 [...]

What do Virtualised Servers of the future look like……

….not a Server.
Well not a server as a CIO knows of it today, not even a blade, the cutting edge of servers as they currently see it…
Our view at Varidion is the world of virtualisation is about to collide head-on with the world of networking as the applications of tomorrow will be run directly on [...]

What came first Tar or Ethernet?

Clearly Tarmacadam.     It has a few years on Ethernet.  The first Tar road was laid in Bagdad circa 8th Centaury AD, a few years before Robert Metcalf and David Boggs published their paper in 1973 outlining a successful Multipoint shared Network running locally at 3Mbp/s.  40 years later, Ethernet Networks are delivering 10Gbp/s [...]