Dear colleagues and friends, I’ve arrived at a point in my journey where I’ve decided to shift the balance of things in which I invest my en ...

Digital transformations are always motivated by improving an organization’s performance at one or another level.  In some cases the focus is imp ...

Ray Mota, ACG Research, and Ian Hood, Red Hat, discuss how a distributed application cloud model is needed for higher-quality products and innovative digit ...

Practitioners in a variety of industries have been adopting real-time digital twins in their operations at an increasing rate over the past several years. ...

To excel in a cloud-native world our data center fabrics should be, well, cloud-native too, top to bottom, end to end As an industry we’ve had a g ...

Because of the increased volume, complexity, interfaces and connectivity that require service providers and enterprises to architect, operate and manage ne ...

The Internet is, no doubt, a marvel, definitely an unmatched entity with its constant technological advancements. Its popularity has been driven by our zea ...

  Today’s cloud-based services, while clearly ground-breaking, still have important gaps to fill, such as in the reliability and integrity of ...

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 ...

  Many public cloud offerings require that existing applications be extensively re-architected to run on their infrastructure. If providers offer h ...

  Many steps are available for cloud providers to take to enhance their platforms' efficiency and scale. I mention three techniques here that h ...

  As providers more clearly understand the fundamentals of cloud computing (in areas such as activating virtual machines and allocating storage poo ...

While the potential benefits of running IT services in the cloud are clear, there are still important challenges to overcome before the full promise of ela ...

Ray Mota, ACG Research, and Sunil Khandekar, CEO, Nuage Networks, discuss how the cloud is changing the way businesses consume and share information: for i ...

Paul Parker-Johnson, ACG Research, and Rotem Salomonovitch, Nuage Networks, discuss the cloud and how it is changing the way businesses consume and share i ...

Accelerating time to deployment, enabling differentiation, achieving policy continuity for services and applications from the endpoint to the cloud, and st ...

Paul Parker-Johnson catches up with Nuage Networks on the strengths of their new Virtualized Networking Services Solution. Find out what he has to say. ...

In the steadily advancing domain of cloud computing an improvement of this sort has recently been made that could help service providers increase the secur ...

From the Open Compute Project in data center hardware to open source software such as Open Daylight and OpenStack, the principles of ‘don’t loc ...

A decade and more ago ops managers were blue chip contractors, assembling custom-tuned components into environments a well-known set of visitors could use ...

  Developers and IT teams want as seamless a path as they can get to use the capabilities multiple cloud providers offer. With this contex ...

Operations support systems and business support systems are being rewritten or refactored to cloud-native, microservices-based apps capable of running on h ...

Automating transport network operations is fundamental to building the fully automated network of the future. CSPs have shown a strong preference for build ...

Cloud configurations are evolving with new instances materializing at network and premises edge locations at a rapid pace. For example, comm ...