The financial and analyst community tend to roll up equipment vendors’ revenues for product lines into a single high-order number to gauge market size and simplify the reporting and analysis. GAAP reinforces this mindset as the majority of public companies that are equipment and/or software supplier ...

Many steps are available for cloud providers to take to enhance their platforms' efficiency and scale. I mention three techniques here that have great upsides and are possible in a number of different platform environments. Of course, the exact method of deployment and the types of outcomes an opera ...

Many public cloud offerings require that existing applications be extensively re-architected to run on their infrastructure. If providers offer hybrid cloud services, does this take away the need for customers to re-architect? The answer is sometimes yes, sometimes no. Let's take a look at an exampl ...

The Linux Foundation just announced the formation of a new open source development project intended to harness contributions from a wide range of cloud and networking industry participants to accelerate development of a consistently structured framework for software-defined networks or SDNs. This an ...

Today’s cloud-based services, while clearly ground-breaking, still have important gaps to fill, such as in the reliability and integrity of their service delivery infrastructures, or the degree of automation they use for activating and managing services, before the full promise of the cloud can be a ...

In addition to economic uncertainty, vendors in the router and switching market are dealing with more intensive competition, diminishing service provider’s profit margins, and their largest customers cutting spending and delaying purchases of new equipment. Against a backdrop of global economic ins ...

The concept behind a business model is self explanatory. Consisting of two words “business” and “model,” the term technically means the steps and policies an organization pursues to create an image, deliver its services and capture a potential in the market through social and economic acceptance. A ...

The Internet is, no doubt, a marvel, definitely an unmatched entity with its constant technological advancements. Its popularity has been driven by our zeal to use technology to make our lives easier and simpler. It has become second nature for most us to use the Internet as our primary resource whe ...

Although a government shutdown was averted, had it happened, cyber security and providing impregnable networks for the CIA, FBI and other U.S. government agencies with limited staffing and resources could have been severely compromised and had huge consequences and repercussions for these and other ...

Although carriers are investing heavily in their networks, especially in edge network equipment and services, they have been neglecting core routers. Over the last few years carriers have under-invested in core and put more intelligence in their edge networks and develop more services. This has put ...

Because of the increased volume, complexity, interfaces and connectivity that require service providers and enterprises to architect, operate and manage networks very differently, many are moving to cloud computing, a term for any activities that involve delivering hosted services over the Internet. ...