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Promise of Cloud Largely Unfulfilled

Dave Young
Jul. 23,2012 |

Clients are constantly asking NET(net) about the cloud. They largely think it offers some benefits in terms of lower cost, quicker deployments, and higher subscription based elasticity. In a recent client survey, just over 80% of clients believed that these were the top 3 benefits of ‘moving to the cloud’. Clients also consistently express concerns about the cloud as well, and like the advantages, it comes down largely to three reasons. In this same survey, clients suggested that they were mostly concerned with security, virtualization, and wrongful data exposure. What’s really interesting, is that while the concerns are largely all good ...

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10Gb Ethernet is a Good Gig

Dave Young
Apr. 24,2012 |

If there is one thing we’ve learned over the years in networking, it is not to underestimate the evolution of network capacity requirements over time or the complexity of managing the core networks that power our data centers. Thankfully we have a networking technology in Ethernet that has kept in step with our networking performance requirements, from the game changing 10Mb Ethernet 10BaseT, effectively replacing coax and token-ring networks in the 90s, to talk today of applications that will fill the emerging standard of 100Gb Ethernet. But is it a fit for every networking purpose, such as a replacement for Fibre Channel (FC) for instance ...

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