Mike Fratto

April 09, 2012

Google's Android is a great OS, but it has significant problems that must be addressed before it becomes irrelevant. Here are 10 of them.

Should Amazon Define Cloud Standards?

April 07, 2012

Since Citrix gave Cloudstack to the Apache Software Foundation, there has been a lot of blogging, tweeting, and arguing about whether cloud computing software vendors should simply let...

Amazon APIs Are Fine ... For Amazon

April 03, 2012

If I didn't know better, I'd say that there are many in the cloud community who are happy to capitulate standards to Amazon. What's next? Letting Cisco define networking standards?...

Data Centers

How To Set Up A Certificate Authority In 10 Minutes

March 28, 2012

Having a company owned certificate authority makes managing your network devices simpler and more secure. There is nothing inherently wrong with self...

Wireless Infrastructure

Data Caps And Treating Employees Like Adults

March 27, 2012

Carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless are using data caps to manage the explosive growth in 3G/4G data consumption. Hey, kids--the 1990s called and wants its bandwidth management...

Security Professionals Get The Best Toys

March 22, 2012

Do you think penetration testers--the people that companies hire to break into organizations and test their defenses--remain immersed in the pale...

Dell's SonicWall Acquisition Follows Cheap 'n Easy Blueprint

March 14, 2012

Dell's Sonicwall acquisition makes sense. Dell's strategy is to sell low-cost desktops, laptops, and servers that are cheap and easy to use to everyone from small companies up to mid-size...

Brocade HyperEdge Promises To Ease LAN Management

March 06, 2012

Brocade has announced a new initiative to simplify switch configuration and management. HyperEdge lets IT professionals designate a master switch that can manage all other switches on the...

Cisco And Deloitte Wrong: Good Practices More Impactful Than Vendor Choice

February 21, 2012

Cisco is fighting back against the notion that a multivendor network can simplify operations and reduce TCO. The networking giant commissioned a report by Deloitte that finds equipment...

Citrix Cloudstack 3.0: Better Networking, Bigger Community, Improved Orchestration

February 13, 2012

Cloudstack 3.0 adds support for XenServer 6.0 with tighter integration with the hypervisor and tight integration with Citrix's Netscaler application delivery controller.

Why I Like Juniper's QFabric (And A Mea Culpa)

February 01, 2012

While I was visiting Juniper in early December, I got a chance to sit down with the QFabric folks to discuss some of issues with QFabric and what I saw as a proprietary—with all the badness...

IBM And NEC Leverage OpenFlow For High-Performance Networking

January 23, 2012

IBM and NEC are collaborating on high-performance OpenFlow deployments. OpenFlow, developed at Stanford University, has enjoyed acceptance in university networks because an OpenFlow network...

Microsoft System Center 2012 Revealed

January 19, 2012

Microsoft's System Center 2012, which we discussed in Microsoft's System Center 2012: Building A Private Cloud, is the latest attempt by a big vendor...

Microsoft's System Center 2012: Building A Private Cloud

January 17, 2012

Microsoft is beefing up its private cloud offering by enhancing existing modules in System Center 2012, adding an application controller that disconnects apps from the OS, an orchestration...

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