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Tag Archives: Forrester Research
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The Grass Isn’t Always Greener on the LAN Side
A friend of mine who spends a lot of time with data center LAN and SAN admins has been telling me for a long time that SAN admins have a better life. SAN admins supposedly get paged less and when they go home after work, they stay home, while LAN admins are always getting pages in the middle of the night and fighting fires. To help prove his point, he took an informal poll and found that SAN admins typically log into their network roughly once every 4-6 WEEKS while LAN admins need to log into their network 4-5 times PER DAY!
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What I Didn’t Learn at Interop
As best as I can tell, I was one of about five people in the networking industry who weren’t at Interop this year. That’s because until about three weeks before the event, I was working on servers: Cisco UCS, to…
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Should Analysts Track a New Class of Ethernet Fabric Ports?
I definitely don’t want the life of an analyst to be more difficult, but I believe the trend we’re seeing in the data center demands such tracking.
The forecast and growth shown from analysts about private and public…
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Virtualization and A Box of Chocolates
Remember the scene in “Forrest Gump” when he practically bemoaned his third invitation to a White House function? In that spirit, I present you with the latest industry research report that declares that Fibre Channel is the king…
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The Roadmap to the Clouds
One widely held truism in all the discussions these days about next-generation data center architectures is that virtualization is the foundation and the first step toward building clouds. What’s been less clear is how to actually connect those dots. Forrester…
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The Modern Workforce in the Clouds
Earlier this month Steve Jobs pulled a “Willis Reed” and made a surprise and maybe even a “heroic” appearance at the launch party for the new Apple iPad2, that is thinner, faster, brews a mean cup of…
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The foundation for virtualized data centers and cloud-optimized networks.
