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Blog:Juniper: Reading The Writing On The Wall

Like the polar ice caps, the traditional edge of the network — supporting desktops, printers, APs, VoIP phones — is eroding and giving way to a virtual edge. With the thawing of IT...

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Report:Optimize IT Infrastructure Around Key Workloads

Landscape: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

The inside-out approach of engineers focused on technology for its own sake must stop: Your business cares about outcomes and holistic services, not server, storage, and network technologies. For too...

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Report:Virtual Network Infrastructure

Orchestrating The Right Services For Each User Requires I&O To Invest In A Scalable, Secure, Shared, Simplified, And Standardized Network Infrastructure

Server virtualization started a chain reaction that is transforming infrastructure and operations (I&O). Your network infrastructure isn't immune, but the reaction has been delayed. Current...

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Blog:Part 2: Three FUD Statements I&O Managers Use Not To Implement Standards-Based Networking

Carrying on from my thoughts in Part 1:  It’s time to start deploying purely standards-based infrastructure outside the data center; data center protocols are just starting to be created...

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Blog:You Forgot The Network On Your Journey To The Cloud

Is it me, or does the network industry remind you of Revenge of the Nerds? Networking was cast aside in the cloud revolution, but now companies are learning -- the painful way – what a mistakes...

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Report:The Data Center Network Evolution: Five Reasons This Isn't Your Dad's Network

Look To Virtual Switches, Virtual I/O, Meshed Networks, And Automation To Maximize Your New Data Center Investment

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams are facing a difficult challenge in the data center: tossing out the rules of networking architecture. After years of just "throwing bandwidth" at the...

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Blog:Détente In The Networking War Signals A New Area Of Choice For I&O

I almost fell out of my chair a week ago Friday when HP posted a link to an overview of the Cisco Fabric Extender for HP BladeSystem. If it hadn’t been for tweets by Cisco, HP’s...

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Tool:Forrester Wave™: Data Center Networking, Q1 '13

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Client Inquiry:Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

We're interested in the implications and impacts of deploying IPv6. In particular, we would like to know what happens when an IPv6 packet is received at our firewall if we're not configured to route...

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Report:Focus Your Network Strategy On User Experience, Not Application Delivery

To Remain Business-Relevant, I&O Managers Need A New Network Architecture

Networking isn't about applications or technology — it's about users. The business pressure to consolidate IT, support empowered users, and provide customized experiences to customers is...

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Report:How I&O Can Create A Wireless User Experience Network

Part 2 In A Two-Part Collection On Why I&O Managers Need To Focus Wireless Deployments On The User

In part 1 of this series, Forrester explained why I&O managers should look to deploy a wireless user experience network (uXn). A uXn can be characterized as a multistage problem-solving process that...

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Blog:SMARTnet Is Dead! Long Live The Lifetime Warranty!

Just kidding, Cisco’s SMARTnet isn’t dead, but I&O managers have a new warranty for networking hardware: free hardware replacement, bug fixes, and tech support. Basically,...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Data Center Networking Hardware, Q1 2013

Distinct Competencies Separate The Core Vendors

In Forrester's 85-criteria evaluation of vendors that offered data networking solutions, Forrester identified eight significant solution providers in this category — Alcatel-Lucent, Arista...

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Report:Market Overview: Data Center Networking Solutions, Q1 2012

The Data Center Networking Solutions Mimic I&O's Virtualization Maturity

Over the past year, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals have focused their enterprise networking efforts on readying network infrastructure to support virtualization, consolidation,...

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Blog:Don’t Underestimate The Value Of Information, Documentation, And Expertise!

With all the articles written about IPv4 addresses running out, Forrester’s phone lines are lit up like a Christmas tree. Clients are asking what they should do, who they should engage, and...

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Report:Networking Predictions For 2013

Networking's Renaissance Breaks Down The Technology Silos And Introduces Teamwork

As infrastructure & operations (I&O) leaders move aggressively to execute on their private cloud plans, they've run headlong into growing frictions between networking professionals and the rest of...

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Client Inquiry:Are There Many Large, Global Companies That Are Deploying Voice Over Wi-Fi?

Are there many large, global companies that are deploying voice over Wi-Fi, and if so, are they deploying 802.11n in the 5 GHz frequency to support current and future voice deployments and leaving...

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Report:An Infrastructure Can Only Be As Efficient As DNS, DHCP, And IP Address Management

I&O Should Focus Its Energies On DDI Operations, Not Development

When was the last time you heard of a company building its own personal computers for its employees? Cobbling together hard drives, CPUs, memory, and operating systems is not cost-effective or a core...

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Report:Opening New Doors With IPv6

Identify The Business Benefits Of IPv6 And Break Deployments Into Three Areas

What's different between electric cars, flux capacitors, and IPv6? Absolutely nothing! They're all hyped technologies that have yet to come to full fruition. For IPv6, that's about to change. The...

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Blog:Extending The Best Practices From The Data Center To The Campus

Last week Vendor X was briefing me on a set of new switches. The projector started rolling with a nice webconference slide deck and a voiceover highlighting customer requirements. It wasn’t...

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Blog:What Is The Cost Of Being Blind, Insecure, And Unmanaged?

With the increased presence of business principles within the IT arena, I get a lot of inquiries from  Infrastructure & Operations Professionals who are trying to figure out how to justify their...

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Blog:Rating: Hold - Stormy Waters Continue To Toss The Minnow: HP Networking

The other day I was just reminiscing with a friend who works at HP about all the good times I had there with my ProCurve family.  When I left for a once in lifetime opportunity, I had so much...

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Client Inquiry:Voice Over Wi-Fi

Are there many large, global companies that are deploying voice over Wi-Fi, and if so, are they deploying 802.11n in the 5 GHz frequency to support current and future voice deployments and leaving...

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Report:Source Your Network Architecture From A Strategic Partner

Dual-Sourcing Your Network Just Results In Low-Cost, Low-Value Infrastructure

Over the past few years in the networking industry, various vendors have claimed they offer clients a choice where there was none before. Really?! Over the past eight years, the networking industry...

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Blog:SDN, Cloud, And Automation Need A Controller, System, And Sensor

After Hurricane Sandy forced the closure of the NYSE, the market opened up a week ago Wednesday morning with Riverbed’s stock price plunging 20%, while some financial analysts...