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Recession-Induced Network Innovations

by Gregory Ness, October 24, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Unleasing Infrastructure2.0

I just watched Cisco's John Chambers "Can IT Strengthen the Economy?" interview at the recent Gartner conference just released at ZDNet. John clearly sees innovation as the way out. The network is strategic to business productivity. Flexibility, speed and scale are becoming even more important. That means dynamic connectivity and intelligence will become even more strategic to the ...

The next tech boom is already underway

by Gregory Ness, October 20, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Virtualization and cloud computing are driving us into a new era of network automation

Cloud computing has become a reality, yet the hype surrounding cloud has started to exceed the laws of physics and economics. The robust cloud (of all software on demand that will replace the enterprise data center) will crash into some of the same barriers and diseconomies that are facing enterprise IT today. Certainly there will always be a business case ...

The Next Tech Boom: Infratsructure2.0

by Gregory Ness, October 13, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Clouds, Networks and Recessions

Over the last three decades we've watched a meteoric rise in processing power and intelligence in network endpoints and systems drive an incredible series of network innovations; and those innovations have led to the creation of multi-billion dollar network hardware markets. As we watch the global economy shiver and shake we now see signs of the next technology boom: ...

Cricket: We've Entered a New Era in DNS

by Gregory Ness, October 9, 2008 | Comments (0)

	- CSI Report notes emergence of DNS Attacks According to Cricket Liu this new era of DNS that we've just entered will require us to be more nimble and more proactive. Things may move fast, now that hackers can target DNS. This second episode of bloxTV is an 18 minute "big picture" chat about DNS security and the impact of Kaminsky's discovery. Cricket also talks about his ...
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Google's pie in the sky

by Gregory Ness, October 6, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Does Google's cloud threaten Microsoft?

Google is one of the few dotcom-era companies that truly exceeded investor expectations. Imagine anyone so brazen a couple decades ago to think that an advertising/directory company could grow to threaten the world's global tech giants. Yet here we are today with Google stealing the tech thunder with an awe-inspiring vision of cloud computing that perhaps now exceeds its own ...

The Cloud will require infrastructure 2.0

by Gregory Ness, September 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Who will really profit from cloud computing?

Cloud computing has replaced virtualization as the new hot topic of 2008. Yet underneath the headlines a very basic shift is taking place in the network that promises even more conversations in the very near future. Let's call this shift the rise of infrastructure 2.0 or the result of escalating pressures on an already tired network infrastructure. As Google ...

Cloud computing - more storms ahead

by Gregory Ness, August 24, 2008 | Comments (0)

Techological barriers to cloud computing are significant

The biggest threat to the promise of cloud computing to appear this summer wasn't the failed trademark attempt by Dell, but rather brilliant research by a leading white hat security researcher. Dan Kaminsky discovered how a well-known and widespread vulnerability in DNS servers could be exploited in seconds and turn any one of millions of servers directing Internet traffic ...

Kaminsky's exploit exposes Internet

by Gregory Ness, August 1, 2008 | Comments (0)

	Thinking beyond the patch John Markoff's New York Times recent story on the DNS exploit will no doubt draw significant attention to what Cricket Liu called one of the most significant vulnerabilities of all time. A few days after the easy to launch exploit was published on the Internet, evidence of attacks were soon reported, even against security experts including HD Moore, who was ...
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Microsoft unleashes the cannibals again

by Gregory Ness, July 14, 2008 | Comments (1)

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This time at VMware

One of the most powerful weapons used by dominant technology companies is the power of commoditization. Established players with product offering breadth can crush single product line competitors by offering loss leader bundles with much lower prices for similar products. The net effect of the loss leader bundle is to make a competitor's single line into a commodity, which slows ...

Maritz replaces Greene at VMware

by Gregory Ness, July 9, 2008 | Comments (0)

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His role at EMC Cloud division gives VMware a twofer at a critical time in its history

Paul Maritz (VMware's new CEO) has a cloud computing background, which makes this recent move ever more interesting for VMware watchers. While the trade and financial press has been understandably big on his product and marketing contribution to Microsoft across 14 years, I think his role at the EMC Cloud division really gave VMware a twofer at a critical time ...

Data Center Security: Entrepreneurs Needed

by Gregory Ness, January 23, 2008 | Comments (0)

There is clearly a need for innovation when it comes to data center security. While the large security players lament start-up point products, the rate of hacker innovation is accelerating so fast that the security industry will soon be looking for new architectures to address emerging threats. Last week the tech press marked yet another week of security capitulation, with reports of widespread unpatched Oracle databases and the acknowledgement that a cyber attack had recently blacked out at least one ...

Guest column - the security challenge of virtualization mania

by Gregory Ness, October 12, 2007 | Comments (0)

Editor's Note: Gregory Ness is the vice president of marketing for Blue Lane Technologies, a winner of the 2007 InfoWorld Technology of the Year for security, Best of Interop 2007 in security and the AO 100 Top Private Company award for 2006 and 2007. Blue Lane is also a 2007 Best of VMworld Finalist in data protection. Ness is a former marketing executive at Juniper Networks, Redline Networks, IntruVert Networks and ShoreTel who has been blogging for Always On network since 2004. While ...

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