Greg Ness

A recent and rather ambitious outlook on Cisco at Motley Fool entitled “Cisco and the Golden Age of the Internet“ talks about the rise in internet traffic and the growth potential it holds for companies like Cisco.  While the article does mention competitive pressures (from the likes of IBM, HP, DELL and JNPR), it underestimates the impact of disruptive technologies on the burgeoning networking equipment space. The network has finally become recognized for its importance in the post-PC era, as analysts and executives have come to grips with the impact of the hyper growth in IP addresses, streaming content, and the growing penetration of internet connectivity into broader arrays of once standalone devices and appliances. Networks are larger and more complex today than they were perhaps ever intended to be, when Dan Lynch and other networking pioneers were creating ea... (more)

Looking Beyond the Vanilla Data Center

Last year on Earth Day Vantage Data Centers launched its Smart Data Center Revolution , heralding a shift in the wholesale data center industry from vanilla “one design fits all” space to highly custom and highly energy efficient data centers strategically aligned to specific enterprise needs.  While there will always be vanilla data center space, [...] ... (more)

HP Takes a Shot at the Hardware-Centric Network

HP is positioning itself to do the same thing to the network (hardware) industry as VMware did to the server (hardware) industry. The idea of an automated network capable of responding to the demands of cloud has taken a step forward with HP’s OpenFlow announcement.  Time will tell how serious HP ultimately is about SDN, [...] ... (more)

Amazon and the Enterprise IT Monoculture Myth

I didn’t know whether I should chuckle cynically or slow clap the recent hubris of an Amazon executive, quoted in InformationWeek, with a tech prediction set to be fulfilled in a mere ten years: Amazon: Era Of Data Centers Ending: "The era in which most big companies operate their own data centers is coming to a close. Instead they’ll turn, slowly but surely, to the cloud. That’s the bold prediction Amazon’s Adam Selipsky, VP of product marketing, sales, and product management, made Thursday at Amazon’s Web Service Summit 2012 in New York." Selipsky is perhaps really just talkin... (more)

Hybrid Cloud Emigration Will Drive Wholesale Data Center Adoption

The IT thought leaders of tomorrow are today building hybrid clouds spanning extremely efficient, vertically scalable data centers with powerful and increasingly software-centric infrastructure.  They’re building private clouds as their base and then renting public clouds for the spike.  Today they are experiencing the challenges that will be rippling through Fortune 500 companies during the [...] ... (more)