Kurt Marko

April 25, 2014

Our annual WAN survey finds usage of WAN optimization and traffic shaping up 4% over last year, despite some predictions in the industry to the contrary.

Cloud Infrastructure

WAN Adaptations Needed For Cloud

April 25, 2014

The cloud is putting more demands than ever on the WAN, and the WAN must respond with increased speed, throughput, and flexibility.

Big Switch, Avaya, IBM, VMware: SDN Strategies

April 22, 2014

Part 4 in our series comparing vendors' SDN approaches.

SDN Strategies Part 4: Big Switch, Avaya, IBM,VMware

April 18, 2014

This series on SDN products concludes with a look at Big Switch's updated SDN strategy, VMware NSX, IBM's hybrid approach, and Avaya's focus on virtual network services.

Juniper, Dell, Brocade, Alcatel-Lucent: SDN Strategies

April 18, 2014

Part 3 in our series comparing vendors' SDN approaches.

SDN Strategies Part 3: Juniper, Dell, Brocade, Alcatel-Lucent

April 17, 2014

In the third part of this series examining vendors' SDN products, I discuss Juniper's network overlay approach and three other vendor strategies for tackling software-defined networking.

SDN Vendors Vie For Market, Mindshare

April 16, 2014

It's a land grab in the software-defined networking market, with heavyweights and startups rolling out an array of technologies for automating the network.

SDN Strategies Part 2: Cisco, Arista, HP

April 15, 2014

In the second part of this series examining vendors' SDN products, I look at Cisco ACI, Arista's programmable approach, and HP's commitment to OpenFlow.

SDN Strategies Part 1: Vendors Vie For Market, Mindshare

April 14, 2014

It's a land grab in the software-defined networking market, with heavyweights and startups rolling out an array of technologies for automating the network.

SSDs: A Guide To Using Flash In The Datacenter

February 14, 2014

With the price of SSDs rapidly declining, it's tempting to put them in every new server or storage system. Not so fast.

SSDs: A Guide To Using Flash In The Datacenter

February 13, 2014

With the price of SSDs rapidly declining, it's tempting to put them in every new server or storage system. Not so fast.

2014 State Of Storage: Cost Worries Grow

January 20, 2014

Solid state alone can't solve your problems -- even if you can afford it. Think scale-out, virtualization, and cloud.

Solid-State Storage: On The Road To Datacenter Domination

January 14, 2014

SSDs are displacing hard drives at a rapid clip in the datacenter, as enterprises and cloud providers find them an increasingly attractive low-power, faster storage option.

How To Stay Connected Through The Holidays