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Former Network Computing Editor

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Networking

Opposing Net Neutrality Means Opposing Innovation

Mike Fratto

November 05, 2010

Since the elections, the tech media has been buzzing about the loss of support for net neutrality which the FCC set forth in this proposal. I am a proponent of Net Neutrality because I...

Networking

Releasing Firesheep: Right Intention, Wrong Action

Mike Fratto

October 25, 2010

Eric Butler released Firesheep, a Firefox extension that makes stealing others' Web sessions trivial. Firesheep steals the cookies associated with a user session and then uses the cookie to...

Networking

Data Center Top Of Mind At Interop 2010

Mike Fratto

October 22, 2010

Our intrepid Syracuse graduates students Harshit Kapoor, Anirudh Nagesh, Shruti Worlikar, Lingwen Zzhang returned with more reports from Interop. Cloud computing and data center are top of...

Cloud Infrastructure

What I Learned At Interop

Mike Fratto

October 21, 2010

Network Computing has had a long and fruitful relationship with Syracuse University. Dave Molta, who was at various times my professor, colleague and boss, brought Network Computing to the...

Networking

Building Reliability Into IT

Mike Fratto

September 27, 2010

There's a lot to like about Twitter; for me, the interesting discussions that crop up are a main draw. This was especially true recently, regarding a conversation about the foundations and...

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Is About Technology

Mike Fratto

September 10, 2010

I continue to hear the question "what is cloud" being asked by people who are pretty well versed in IT. I am talking about people who are working in various levels of IT today and have been...

Data Centers

Yes, You Can Automate IT. No, You Can't Avoid It.

Mike Fratto

September 03, 2010

It's been coming for a long time now. Automating your data center is emerging in a big way. You can't avoid it, you can only put it off for a while, but sooner or later, it's going to...

Data Centers

HP's Next CEO Needs To Steer The Ship

Mike Fratto

August 13, 2010

With Mark Hurd out of HP, the company has an opportunity to find a replacement who can carry the company forward. One of the striking moments at CiscoLive was listening to CEO John Chambers...

Networking

Net Neutrality: Where The Money Goes

Mike Fratto

August 12, 2010

As we all know, Google and Verizon have reached a private agreement to for Google to pay for priority shipping of its bits over Verizon's networks. Both companies are getting beat up for...

Networking

Request For Information: Data Center Networking

Mike Fratto

July 26, 2010

In the coming months, I am going to be spending a lot of time getting up close and personal with networking vendors' data center product sets. Jim Metzler and I are working on a data center...

Cloud Infrastructure

The Cloud May Not Need Server Virtualization, But Enterprises Do

Mike Fratto

July 21, 2010

Considering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), I think by far the most interesting one is PaaS. The idea behind PaaS is that...

Networking

Signing The DNS Root Is Only One Step Forward

Mike Fratto

July 19, 2010

The DNS root zone was signed on July 15th, 2010. Did you feel it? Did you even notice? The root zone of Internet is now more secure, signed cryptographically w/ DNSSEC. Unless you are...

Data Centers

Putting The Catalyst 6500 In Its Place

Mike Fratto

July 12, 2010

The 6500 is a workhorse in the core and the data center. Network admins love to hate it and hate to love it. The variety of blades that can be inserted for in switch processing makes the...

Networking

Cisco's Vision Of Trust And Security: Building It With Or Without You

Mike Fratto

June 30, 2010

I am pretty impressed with Cisco's breadth and depth of vision on where the information technology is heading and the role of the network in that vision. One item stuck out during Pamasree...

Networking

Why You Need To Demand Standards, Now

Mike Fratto

June 24, 2010

In technology, there is lots of talk about the need for standards for this or that technology. I am an unabashed proponent of standards. There are lots of very smart people who work on...

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