Posts Tagged ‘Path’
Putting off Deployment of Next-Generation Apps
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● July 1, 2009
Many Network Managers are Putting off Deployment of Next-Generation Apps. Our new report, “The State of the Path,” provides some really interesting insight into the issues that are causing network managers to delay their deployment of next-generation applications. Based on a survey that targeted hundreds of network managers, we found that network concerns outside of [...]
Software On Demand
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● June 1, 2009
From choosing the features of your next laptop to customizing the playlist that will stream through your iPod, what has been called the “next generation” of virtual, user- friendly, and on demand services and products has arrived. With our future resting in the cloud it seems the information we seek and the products we need [...]
Layers, Encapsulation & Path
Posted by: norrischris in: ● March 31, 2009
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While building AppCritical Version 3.6, our development team had many spirited discussions about the underpinnings of networked services and applications. Services delivered over a network have been around since…well, since before the Internet. This isn’t a history lesson so we can skip the details. What’s important is that this model of computing and communications has [...]
Regional Cloud Innovation
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● March 30, 2009
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Scott Kirsner recently wrote a great Boston Sunday Globe story and related blog post on the innovation coming out of the Boston area relating to cloud computing. There’s no question that cloud computing is having a dramatic impact on the way we think about networks and how all of us will use them going forward. [...]
John Was (Almost) Right
Posted by: stevensmatt in: ● March 13, 2009
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If you have been around IT or technology in general for more than a couple of years, you’ve no doubt heard the phrase “The network is the computer.” Often this is mistakenly attributed to Sun Microsystems’ founding CEO, Scott McNealy – when actually it was another Sun visionary, John Gage, who first uttered these now-famous [...]
Managing the Cloud
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● March 3, 2009
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Our customer announcement with BCS Global today really highlights two key points. First, whether you’re a provider or a consumer of cloud-based applications or services, it’s very likely that you are experiencing management challenges with those services. Second, for innovative organizations that really want to leverage the cloud, there is an effective way to address [...]
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